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1957
1957 - 0822.PDF
828 FLIGHT, 21 June 1957 Among the agile light aircraft was the Czechoslovak L. 60 Brigadyr. ILSY 6 ... Allen Wheeler. As the 504 indulged in a looping dogfight withitself, the Bleriot and the Ellehammer delighted with a series of low runs. Pilot accommodation contrasted; M. Salis seemedperched out in the open on top of the Bleriot, while Jensen sheltered beneath the Ellehammer's scalloped wing in a wide, redseat. The historical phase of the display concluded with a ground run by Anthony Fokker's first product, the 1911 Spider (escortedby veteran and vintage cars); and a flight by the National Aero- nautical Museum's 1925 Fokker F.VIIA, H-NACT, piloted byCdre. L. A. Brugman of K.L.M. Inexplicably, Jet Provost G-AOHD had also got into the historical act.With the three balloons moving slowly, very slowly into the distance, the next item was an agricultural-aircraft feature. Mast-boom's agricultural Super Cubs from Rotterdam; the E.P.9 demonstrator flown by "E. P." himself; and a Diinn helicopterwith spray-bars, appeared in turn, sturdily bucolic from nose to tail. The leisurely atmosphere of the Three Counties Show wasshattered, however, with the sudden appearance, at zero feet, of the Auster Agricola, busily dropping a continuous cloud of dustalong the runway. Harold Best-Devereux in a second, spray- equipped E.P.9 did his best to douse the smoke by spraying wateron it, but Porteous insisted on making a second and a third and a fourth run, finally declaring the runway well and truly dusted ina steady climb—still dusting. A dummy submarine, surfacing near Ypenburg's new control tower, receives the attention of a P2V Neptune of the Netherlands Navy. Calm was restored with the help of a miscellany of sailplanes,which released from aerotows to begin a gentle series of "follqw- my-leader" and other manoeuvres. Types included Goevier,Grunau Baby, Skylark 2 and 3, Sky, Rhonlerche and Olympia. Contrast once more, with the afternoon's first aerobatic team—the four F-84F Thunderstreaks of the Royal Netherlands Air Force. A trim, competent show, with steady station-keeping, a niceline in climbing rolls, and a novelty touch with four mysterious bangs and smoke-puffs during one climb. The now-customarybomb-burst, and a fair four-point crossover. Flying training was the next theme. Shown in succession wereTiger Moths, Fokker S.I Is, Harvards (Service and civil), Safir and Beechcraft D-18S (from the Government Flying School at Eelde),Piaggio P.149 (a possible successor to the Tigers, Harvards and Safirs of the Government school), Fouga Magister, Jet Provost(flown by B. N. Rumbelow) and Fokker S.14 Mach Trainer. A sprightly free-for-all displayed the last-named four. Low, fast and vapour-fringed, a single Hawker Hunter burst into shake the crowd and begin a superb display. F/L. Ken Goodwin of 93 Sqn., 2nd T.A.F., was the pilot—an apparently g-proofindividual, to judge from his turns, roll reversals and pull-ups. Occupants of the Press enclosure groaned in sympathy—andadmiration. An inverted climb was pushed up over the vertical before rolling out and completing a normal loop. A magnificentshow. Right on cue with not a second's breathing-space, in came theItalian Air Force quartet of Thunderstreaks. In copperplate style they wrote formation changes, rolls, loops, a clover leaf and theirsmoke-trailing signature of bomb-burst, crossover and form-up. Not too tight a formation but, as with most other teams, closingup noticeably as they went over the top. Naval aviation next, beginning with an Anglo-Netherlands fly-past. A matronly Neptune led four Avengers; a Mariner followed, attended by her brood of four R.N. Gannets; and these werechased by two quartets of Sea Venoms and Sea Hawks. The Gannets, blackcurrant-striped "Spangles" spinners proclaimingtheir 820 Sqn. origin, next joined forces with the Dutch Avengers for an excellently co-ordinated show. Lt-Cdr. D. O'D. Newbery,the squadron CO., led the Gannet team. Neptune, Gannets, Venoms and Hawks next turned their atten-tion to a submarine (or reasonable facsimile thereof) near the con- trol tower. The fighters buzzed in like a swarm of selective insects,the Venoms from 893 Sqn. led by the CO., Lt-Cdr. G. J. R. Elgar, and the Ace-of-Diamonds Hawks of 806 led by theSenior Pilot, Lt-Cdr. L. E. Chester-Lawrence. The unfortunate Taking a quick shower: high-subsonic Shockwaves were painted in flickering water-vapour during a low run by a Super Sabre of the Skyblazers team. This run opened the team's display.
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