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June 2023
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Features
20 Dutch Lightning in Polish
skies
The NATO enhanced air policing
mission has received a fifth-generation
boost, as Chris Croot discovers
22 Kiwi classics
Steve Kilvington reports from the
recent Classic Fighters Airshow at
Omaka on New Zealand’s South Island
24 Spent force
Stephen Skinner looks back at the
the budgie’s big brother, the British
Aerospace ATP
32 The labours of Hercules
Mick Britton details the C-130's RAF
service career as retirement looms
36 Aircraft restoration the
Australian way
Chris Frame visits New South Wales’
Historic Aircraft Restoration Society
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45 Football Italia
Richard Vandervord winds the clock
back 20 years to the busiest day in
Manchester Airport’s history
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48 Masters of reinvention?
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speaks to Mark Meaton
of the Historic Army Aircraft Flight
about the need for diversification
among airshow acts
52 Second coming… and going
Mark Broadbent considers Flybe’s
second collapse and what it means
for the UK regional sector
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74 All in
Chris Sloan looks at United Airlines
and the bold moves it has made to
remain relevant over the past decade
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What’s on?
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Air Base Movements
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Airport Movements
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Register Review
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At the Fence
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s is so often the case,
remains immensely capable without
an aircraft’s impending
being considered too long in the tooth
retirement coincides
for second-hand stints.
with an event which
It seems curious decision-making
highlights the type’s importance and
isn’t limited to the UK, though. As
value to the air arm preparing to bid
mentioned in the May issue, the
them farewell.
Indeed, as the RAF’s
Dutch Government continues to press
Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules
ahead with its plans to greatly reduce
C4/C5 has dwindled to around six
the number of flights at Amsterdam/
examples – others having been sold
Schiphol in a bid to reduce carbon
to Bangladesh, Bahrain and the Blue
emissions and noise pollution. While
Angels – a need has arisen for the
this decision may be considered
Hercules to help evacuate British
commendable given the ‘climate
citizens and their dependants from
emergency’ that the world is currently
Sudan. In the 28 flights conducted up experiencing, it’s difficult not to wonder
until Wednesday, May 3, some 2,341
if the Dutch might be biting their noses
UK nationals had been evacuated,
off to spite their faces.
while the Airbus Military A400M
Pre-pandemic, aviation contributed
continues to suffer with serviceability €22bn towards the Netherlands’
issues – albeit not to the same extent gross decimal product, and Schiphol –
as it has in previous months and
which in terms of passenger numbers
years, thankfully.
is eight times larger than Eindhoven
That the Bahrainis,
Airport, the Netherlands’
Bangladeshis and US Navy
next biggest hub – is
have all snapped up
undoubtedly the primary
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outgoing RAF Hercs,
source of this income.
and Turkey and Greece
As if the oranjes’ bid
have indicated their
to turn Schiphol into
Check out our
interest in purchasing
a giant lemon wasn’t
latest offer!
those still in service or
unusual enough, Royal
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more recently retired,
Schiphol Group (RSG)
speaks of an aircraft which
– which runs the airport –
A
On the cover
United Airlines
Boeing 757-
200, N14102 (c/n
27292), at rest
on its first visit
to Tenerife/Sur
in June 2022
AirTeamImages.
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has accepted the decision to reduce
movements from 500,000 to 460,000
yearly as a “necessary intermediary
stage”. As well as taking a near 10%
reduction in its business lying down,
it has scrapped plans for a new
runway and is considering banning
business aviation from the site. There’s
been instances of turkeys voting for
Christmas in the past, but RSG appears
to be only too happy to oblige, so much
so that the scent of roasting chestnuts
and cranberry sauce must surely be
wafting over the Polderbaan.
In early April, a Dutch court upheld
the legal challenges lodged by the
International Air travel Association
(IATA) and a raft of airlines including
KLM, Air Canada, United Airlines,
FedEx Express, British Airways and
Lufthansa. However, while a reprieve
for airlines, passengers, businesses
in the Netherlands and the Dutch
economy, this is merely the first round.
Yours,
Martin Needham, Editor
martin.needham@keypublishing.com
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RAF Museum’s Wellington on display
FOLLOWING A decade of conservation work,
Vickers Wellington Mk.X MF628 has been
placed on public display for the first time at
Shropshire’s RAF Museum Midlands (formerly
RAF Museum Cosford). Transferred from the
Michael Beetham Conservation Centre to its
new spot in Hangar 3 on April 20, it is one
of just two remaining ‘complete’ examples
of the famed ‘Geodetic Giant’. It will form
the centrepiece of a new Bomber Command
exhibition operning on May 16.
The RAFM Midlands said: “The fuselage and
inner wings section can now be viewed by
visitors, while the remaining work of attaching
the outer wings, engines, propellers and front
turret to the aircraft will be carried out over
the next few weeks. Members of the public
will be able to view some of the final steps
towards its completion as the Museum’s
Conservation teamwork within the hangar.”
Ordered by the Air Ministry from Vickers-
Armstrong on May 28, 1942, MF628 was
one of 3,804 Mk.Xs produced across the
firm’s facility at Broughton in Flintshire and
Blackpool in Lancashire. Rolled out on May
9, 1944, ‘628’ took to the air for the first
time later that day, before being assigned to
18 Maintenance Unit (MU) at RAF Tinwald
Downs in Dumfries, Scotland. Placed into
storage until 1948 soon after, the aircraft was
one of 270 Mk.Xs converted to T.Mk.X by
Boulton Paul post-war for navigation training.
The work included removing the front
turret, which was replaced by a fairing, and
re-equipping the interior; the rear turret and
bomb doors were retained.
Allocated to 1 Air Navigation School based
at RAF Hullavington in Wiltshire on April 13,
1949, MF628 was transferred to the RAF St
Athan-based 19 MU on the October 28, 1952,
as the type was gradually being replaced by
Vickers Varsity T.1. Again placed in storage,
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the aircraft was displayed numerous times
the following year, before being used in the
making of the 1955 film
The Dam Busters
as
a camera ship and as an ‘extra’ between April
and October 1954.
Grounded as “non-effective aircraft” soon
after, MF628 was sold back to Vickers and
ferried to the manufacturer’s airfield at
Wisley in Surrey on January 24, 1955. This
was the final time a Wellington took to the
skies. Presented by Vickers to the Royal
Aeronautical Society’s Nash Collection the
following year, the aircraft was transferred to
London’s RAF Hendon in late 1957.
Having undergone varying degrees of
refurbishment, restoration and conservation
work, the aircraft was acquired along with
the majority of the Nash Collection by the
Ministry of Defence in March 1992, by which
time the airframe took pride and place within
Hendon’s Bomber Command Hall. Allocated
the RAF Maintenance serial 9210M, it was
gifted to the to the Royal Air Force Museum in
September 2004.
“After almost 40 years on display at the
Museum’s site in London, the aircraft was
transported by road to the Museum’s
Conservation Centre in the Midlands in
July 2010, for work treating corrosion to its
structure and a complete replacement of
its fragile Irish linen outer skin,” noted the
RAFM in its April 24 announcement. The
aircraft has been restored to its original B.X
configuration.
The announcement continued: “The
extensive restoration of the Wellington is
one of the largest aircraft projects to be
undertaken by the Museum’s Conservation
Centre team. Work has been carried out
by technicians, apprentices, and a team of
volunteers, including one volunteer who
previously worked on Wellingtons during
his RAF instructional airframes training
more than half a century ago. During the
conservation process the Wellington was
regularly visited by the late Mary Stopes-
Roe, daughter of the aircraft designer Barnes
Wallis.”
Jamie Ewan
All images, RAF Museum
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