FlyPast Magazine

28/07/2024

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27/07/2024

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27/07/2024

Marine Corps Harrier added to museum collection: https://hubs.ly/Q02J2ns90

A retired US Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II+ was inducted into the Hickory Aviation Museum in North Carolina on July 15, 2024.

26/07/2024

Super Sabre back in the air: https://hubs.ly/Q02HYsF00

The Collings Foundation’s North American F-100F Super Sabre 56-3844 (N26AZ) flew for the first time in several years on June 30 from Ellington Field in Houston, Texas.

26/07/2024

Unique Fairchild returns to Hagerstown https://hubs.ly/Q02HY3sD0

The only survivor of two Fairchild XNQ-1 trainers built during 1946-47 for potential use by the US Navy, BuNo 75726/N5726 arrived back at its birthplace at Hagerstown, Maryland on 10 June, and has now gone on permanent display in the Hagerstown Aviation Museum.

25/07/2024

Click here to find out what HARS plans to do with the DC-2 it has received: https://hubs.ly/Q02HXBwH0

The Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) has received a Douglas DC-2 to join its growing collection at Shellharbour Airport, Albion Park Rail in New South Wales, Australia.

25/07/2024

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW!

Featuring:

VULCAN POWER
The September 2024 issue of FlyPast features a very special aeroplane on its cover – the Avro Heritage Museum’s white-painted Vulcan B.2 XM603. This edition has a strong V-Force theme, with articles exploring what it was like to fly on a practise Vulcan bombing mission and to fly on a Victor air-to-air refuelling sortie. We also recall the rise and fall of Avro, 100 years after its Woodford factory opened.

CLASSIC FARNBOROUGH
Tony Buttler looks back on the post-war glory days of Farnborough Airshow – a golden era for British aviation

MESSERSCHMITT Me 163
Our regular ‘Classics’ section focuses on one of World War Two’s most extraordinary participants, the rocket powered Me 163 interceptor. Chris Goss describes its remarkable development and perilous wartime role

VALOUR OVER ARNHEM
The valiant efforts of an RAF Dakota unit and a Mustang fighter squadron during 1944’s ill-fated Battle of Arnhem are described by Andrew Thomas

FLYING BULLS
Luke Bimm takes a ride in the Flying Bulls’ newly restored Mustang N***y Booky IV

HURRICANE DIG
It was London’s lost fighter – the bid to excavate Ray Holmes’ famous Hurricane

Plus, there’s been no shortage of must-see warbird action in the UK this past month. Don’t miss our report from the recent Sywell Airshow. Could this be the best historic-themed show of the century so far? Jamie Ewan certainly thinks so. We also share some rarely seen images of English Electric’s P.1A and reveal the winner of the hotly contested FlyPast Painting Of The Year Award, in co-operation with GaVA.

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24/07/2024

Hawker Sea Fury back in Australian skies: https://hubs.ly/Q02HNMXC0

Following a lengthy absence, a Hawker Sea Fury is once again flying in Australia, bedecked appropriately in Royal Australian Navy colours. Gavin Conroy and Paul Bennet tell the former air racer’s story

20/07/2024

Prototype Jackaroo gets airborne for the first time in decades: https://hubs.ly/Q02HdNW20

The prototype Thruxton Jackaroo, G-AOEX (c/n 86483), has been restored to airworthiness for the first time in almost 60 years. The aircraft made its first post-restoration flight in February with Dan Griffith at the controls, and has since been issued with a permit to fly.

20/07/2024

Some good news for Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome: https://hubs.ly/Q02HcrqK0

Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome is again accessible through its primary entrance on Hackman’s Lane in Purleigh, Essex, providing a crucial lifeline in its ongoing struggle for survival.

19/07/2024

Read about Avro Ansons in action over Dunkirk: https://hubs.ly/Q02H5VHw0

While the cry of many of the troops stuck on the beaches at Dunkirk was ‘Where are the RAF?”, 500 Squadron and its near-obsolete Avro Anson Mk.Is were there in the thick of it. Robin Brooks recalls some of the unit’s most notable combat exploits during Operation Dynamo

18/07/2024

FREE NEWS STORY Goose takes to the skies once again:

18/07/2024

Want to know what aircraft are attending the Farnborough International Airshow 2024? Click here to find out: https://hubs.ly/Q02H3c390

This year’s Farnborough International Airshow takes place between July 22 to 26 and once again a wide variety of aircraft types are scheduled to attend.

17/07/2024

Legendary F-4 Phantom bows out in South Korea: https://hubs.ly/Q02GV-fX0

As the Republic of Korea Air Force marked the end for the venerable F-4, Dino van Doorn was at the official retirement ceremony in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

14/07/2024

Big Cat spotted in Oxfordshire: https://hubs.ly/Q02Gph7y0

Phil Stevens caught up with Neil Atterbury – the man single-handedly returning a former RAF SEPECAT Jaguar GR.1 back to its former glory…

13/07/2024

Boscombe Down test pilots trip the Light-ning fantastic with English English thoroughbred: https://hubs.ly/Q02Gp52_0

Two graduates of the Empire Test Pilots’ School look back on their Lightning experiences at Boscombe Down

13/07/2024

SPAD replica takes to the sky: https://hubs.ly/Q02GpcBN0

Twelve years after construction began, the Golden Age Air Museum SPAD XIII replica made its first flight proper from the grass strip at Bethel, Pennsylvania on 15 June, the machine having made a brief hop in early November last year.

12/07/2024

Spitfire scheme causes Turkish delight: https://hubs.ly/Q02Gp3T60

Following its arrival in Turkey on 27 May, Ali Ismet Öztürk’s recently acquired Supermarine Spitfire IX TE517/G-RYIX had been painted into Turkish Air Force markings at the MSÖ Air & Space Museum at Sivrihisar, 85 miles south-west of Ankara, by mid-June.

11/07/2024

Roadworks put future of Stow Maries airfield in doubt: https://hubs.ly/Q02Gcv7X0

Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome, Europe's largest surviving World War One airfield, is facing permanent closure because the main access public road to the site has been closed without warning.

06/07/2024

Grumman Wildcat now displayed after lengthy restoration: https://hubs.ly/Q02Frycp0

Staff at the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan, have completed an 11-year restoration of Grumman FM-2 Wildcat 57039 (also see May 2024 issue of FlyPast).

06/07/2024

The story behind the SR-71 Blackbird being based in the UK: https://hubs.ly/Q02FrdMx0

It is now half a century since the first visit by a Lockheed SR-71 to UK shores, and the start of a link between Britain and ‘Blackbird’ that came almost to define the height of the Anglo-American bond. But the road to US Air Force SR-71 operations from Mildenhall was not always a smooth one

05/07/2024

Sea Harrier and Lynx complete journey to the Falklands: https://hubs.ly/Q02Frg5d0

The Falklands Islands Museum & National Trust (FINMT) has received BAE Systems Sea Harrier F/A.2 ZH801 and Westland Lynx HMA.8SRU XZ725 following an epic journey by the two aircraft from the United Kingdom to the South Atlantic.

05/07/2024

AAIB report findings on scale replica Spitfire Mk 26B crash:

The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has published its report into the fatal accident involving Spitfire Mk 26B G-CLHJ near Enstone in Oxfordshire on August 22, 2023.

04/07/2024

Catalina to pay tribute to VC pilots: https://hubs.ly/Q02FmZ4m0

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of two Catalina pilots being awarded the Victoria Cross in 1944, PBY-5A Catalina, G-PBYA, is to visit a number of locations in Scotland.

04/07/2024

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03/07/2024

Tornado F2 TIARA to take to the skies again: https://hubs.ly/Q02Fc-Fh0

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Jared ‘ROOK’ Isaacman confirmed that he has added a Panavia Tornado F2 to his collection.

29/06/2024

Convair Sea Dart progress: https://hubs.ly/Q02DH82J0

Prior to Florida’s major Sun ’n’ Fun event in April, staff at the Florida Air Museum completed some minor refurbishments and a thorough clean of Convair YF2-1 Sea Dart 135765.

29/06/2024

Heron restoration in Australia: https://hubs.ly/Q02DGW4l0

Staff at the Moorabbin Air Museum in the Australian state of Victoria are busy restoring de Havilland Heron VH-CLX, formerly G-ANPV.

28/06/2024

A fascinating article detailing how the CIA used Neptunes for Chinese missions: https://hubs.ly/Q02DGvJt0

The little-known RB-69A was used by the CIA and Republic of China Air Force to mount covert overflights across the mainland of communist China. Dr Kevin Wright explores the career of the USAF type that never was…

27/06/2024

Pilot insights: Taking aloft a Mosquito: https://hubs.ly/Q02DyWjQ0

Planes of Fame’s Steve Hinton spoke to FlyPast after flying the latest ‘Wooden Wonder’ to take to the skies