Flightpath Volume 24, Number 2 is on the loose and packed with entertaining insights into the world of warbirds and antique aircraft. Featured this issue is Jerry Yagen’s brilliant Mosquito KA114, which made its first post-restoration flight only a month or so ago.
DH-60 VH-ULM
From Sandora Aviation, the story and restoration of the historic DH-60 Gipsy Moth VH-ULM.
The Flying Caseys
The fascination with flight began for Richard (later Lord) Casey with Harry Houdini’s flight in 1910. Neil Follett tells of eminent Australians Lord and Lady Casey, renowned for their passion for aviation.
The Mareeba Bomber
Captain Harl Pease is still officially listed as missing from a bombing mission over Rabaul. As South Pacific Correspondent Michael Claringbould reveals, Pease’s final day is directly linked to the Zero in the Australian War Memorial.
Mosquito KA114
The remarkable restoration of Jerry Yagen’s de Havilland Mosquito KA114. Contributing Editor James Kightly was there for the first flight and for the previous days of hard work by the Avspecs team. We bring you this unique insight into those remarkable few days, and how this restoration got to that point.
Mosquito Buzz
Contributing Editor James Kightly undertakes a photo survey of the world of preserved Mosquitos.
Lancaster Tour
Dion Makowski introduces a new, unique opportunity to view the Lancaster of the RAAF Association’s Aviation Heritage Museum of WA from the inside.
The C-47 Time forgot
The tangled remains lie on a mountain ridge in PNG. In the 1980s a dogtag for Colonel Brewer surfaced. Michael Claringbould reveals Brewer went missing on the same day that the C-47 disappeared.
Tora: Geneseo’s Pearl Harbour
The 1941 Historical Air Group’s annual air show The Greatest Show on Turf is in Geneseo, USA. Michael Côté was there and reports on a Corsair and two replicas from the movie Tora Tora Tora.
Combat C-47s
It could be argued that the Douglas C-47 won the Second World War. This is a small sample of photos of this stalwart.
Northern Zeros
When a Mitsubishi Zero arrived in Anchorage, Alaska, from California, it was the first time a Zero had been seen there since the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands during WWII. Mike Shreeve tells its story and the stories of its sister aircraft.
AND … news from Europe, USA, UK, OZ and NZ with air show reports, restoration updates and forgotten images from years long gone in Photopast.
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