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DE HAVILLAND DH 88 COMET RACER SPECIAL
CAMDEN COLLECTION
Rare look inside the private museum
The Folly of Numbers
WWII records reveal
startling ‘victory’ figures
A6M2 ‘Zero’
wreck in a
PNG swamp
And the tale of
its elusive pilot
Wild
Warbirds’
FM-2 Wildcat
Shuttleworth’s ‘Race Day’
MacRobinson Air Race
80
th
anniversary
Rediscovered 1934 Comet photos
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Contents
February –April 2015 Volume 26 - Number 3
38
Features
12 The Camden Collection
The Camden Museum of Aviation has recently undergone
a significant revamp. Editor
Rob Fox
takes us inside this
eclectic and private museum.
54 A Much Travelled Puss
Neil Follett
documents the many lives
of DH.80 Puss Moth, VH-UPA.
58 Avian Mk Iv M G-ABEE
Paul Wheeler
finds another Avian project!
18 The Elusive Ito
South Pacific Correspondent
Michael Claringbould’s
account
of the Japanese airman It
ō
Tsutomu’s bizarre adventure.
62 Evaluating The Luftwaffe Jets
Mike Shreeve
recounts test-pilot Captain Eric Brown’s
experiences at the end of W.W.II with Germany’s new
technology.
26 New Guinea Packhorse
In the 1930s Guinea Airways carried more freight than the
rest of the world’s airlines combined. Via the AHSA archives
Ben Dannecker
profiles the Junkers G.31 workhorse.
68 Wild Warbirds’ Wildcat
Luigino Caliaro
visits Wild Warbirds and reports on their
Wildcat, awarded the EAA AirVenture Reserve Grand
Champion W.W.II & Gold Wrench Awards.
30 The Folly of Numbers
Accurate aces’ scores will always remain controversial.
Michael John Claringbould
reveals some startling figures.
74 The ‘Peashooter’
Frank B Mormillo
profiles the Planes of Fame
Air Museum’s flying Boeing P-26 Peashooter.
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38 Celestial Restitution
Gary R Brown
tells the story of G-ACSS’ survival
into preservation and controversial restoration.
78 Hendon’s ‘First World War
in the Air’ exhibition
The RAF Museum’s new Great War exhibition in the
revamped Graham White Factory building at Hendon.
46 Charleville Comets
Recently re-found Images from 1934 Queensland
explained by Contributing Editor
James Kightly.
Regulars
COVER: Wild
Warbirds’ Conrad
Huffstutler and his
award winning
FM-2 Wildcat,
(BuNo 86774).
Photography by
Luigino Caliaro.
80 Shuttleworth’s ‘Race Day’
The Shuttleworth Collection commemorated
the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race.
48 ‘Unbroken’ Gold Coast B-24
B-24 Liberator expert
Bob Livingstone
gives
Flightpath
an exclusive behind-the-scenes view of the film ‘Unbroken’
recently filmed in Australia.
4 News
24 Mailbag
35 Personal
Effects
42 Poster
79 Airshows
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LEFT:
The cutaway Sabre A94-960 and
former RAAF Museum Sabre A94-910
at Wagga Wagga dismantled for
transportation.
[Dave Jones]
BELOW:
Sabre A94-960 leaves the
RAAFSTT at RAAF Wagga Wagga on
its way to Point Cook.
[Dave Jones]
ABOVE:
Museum staff and volunteers
dismantle Sabre A94-960.
[Dave Jones]
The Great Sabre Swap
The RAAF School of Technical Training’s
(RAAFSTT) inventory at RAAF Wagga in-
cludes several old aircraft and items of value
to the RAAF Heritage Collection. These are
now surplus to needs as the contract to pro-
vide training to ADF technical personnel
recently changed hands. CAC Winjeel A85-
456 and CAC Sabre A94-960, both “cut-
away” training aids for basic and electro-
hydraulic
flying
control
systems
respectively, and ancient in terms of today’s
platforms, were two items the RAAF Muse-
um wished to retain in the Collection. The
decision was made to relocate the two air-
frames, and other valuable items, to Point
Cook. CAC Sabre A94-982, a gate guardian
at RAAF Wagga, was also to head south. It
was not, however, all one-way traffic. In ex-
change, museum staff and volunteers dis-
mantled and prepared Sabre A94-910 for
transport to Wagga to replace the historic
A94-982. This aircraft is the last remaining
Australian Sabre to have fired a shot in an-
ger during the Malayan Emergency. It flew
several strike sorties in 1959 and 1960 while
serving with 77 Squadron RAAF. Once at
Point Cook A94-982 will undergo restora-
tion for ultimate display in the museum.
Time, however, got away from the hard-
working staff and volunteers towards the
end of 2014 so the changeover of the two Sa-
bres will be completed early this year.
News
Flying Dutchman Heads To Germany
The Australian-built CAC Mustang (A68-
100), known in the United States as ‘Flying
Dutchman’, has been sold and was shipped
to Germany in November 2014. The aircraft
was flown to the Planes of Fame Air Muse-
um in Chino, California, prior to being dis-
assembled and packed for shipment in their
restoration hangar.
Delivered to the RAAF in November 1947
as CA-18, Mk.21 serial 1425,it served with 78
Wing RAAF from 2 November 1948. After
various unit transfers it was put up for dis-
posal in April 1958 and was purchased by
A.J.R.‘Titus’ Oates. Two years later it was
sold to Mustang operators Fawcett Aviation
at Bankstown, New South Wales, and modi-
fied for high altitude survey work.
Ed Flemming/Skyservice Aviation of
Camden, New South Wales, acquired it in
1967 but quickly sold the Mustang to L.
James Ausland in Seattle, Washington, on
20 November. It was rebuilt by Sports Air
of Seattle (using serial 44-14777) and was
registered N51AB four years later. The
aircraft changed hands several times until
1990 when Norm Lewis purchased it for
his Kentucky Aviation Museum. It was
Lewis who had it painted to represent the
P-51D Mustang ‘Flying Dutchman’ flown
by 31
st
Fighter Group ace Robert J.‘Bob’
Goebel in Italy during W.W.II. The most re-
cent US owner, Steve Craig of Lawrence,
Norm Lewis at the controls of ‘Flying Dutchman’ over California’s Catalina
Island in 1994. In the jump-seat is the late Lt. Col. ‘Bob’ Goebel who flew
the real ‘Flying Dutchman’ in W.W.II.
[all images Frank Mormillo]
Kansas, sold the aircraft to its new Ger-
man owner in late 2014. The pre-purchase
inspection was performed by Achim Meier
and was shipped to Meier Motors in
Freiburg, Germany, for reassembly and
has since been assembled and test flown.
Frank B. Mormillo
ABOVE RIGHT:
The cockpit of the CAC Mustang ‘Flying
Dutchman’. RIGHT: ‘Flying Dutchman’ in the Planes of
Fame Air Museum’s restoration hangar just before it was
disassembled and packed for shipment to Germany by
Steve Hinton’s Fighter Rebuilders crew in November 2014.
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