Archive for June 1999

by Peter Walkinshaw – Summer 1999 Designer Techniques No. 17 I decided for last winters building project to get away from the complexities and frustrations of designing my own aircraft and instead to build from a tried and tested plan.  I came across an article on the DH 108 Swallow by Vic Steel in the…

by Martin Hursthouse – Summer 1999 Designer Techniques No. 18 Fieseler Fi 156 (Storch) Background On April 25th 1945, Hanna Reitsch and General Ritter Von Greim flew into Berlin and landed on the East-West axis near the Brandenburg Gate, there being nowhere else to land. Von Greim, who had been summoned by Hitler to accept…