Hi all, I wonder if anyone collects and keeps copies of military flying magazines, I think they are called Fly Past and Pilot I am not sure. About 6-7 years ago I worked as a operations manger for a japanese international freight forwarder importing and exporting goods all over the world. I worked for some pretty big corperations, one in particular was either Sumitomo or Ashai Corp I can't remember which one, but the president of it was visiting the UK. I heard through a Japanese colleague that he flew a aircraft that was now at a museum in the UK (the actual one). Well I did a bit of investigating and found that he flew the Mitsubishi Dinaha, which is held at RAF Cosford just down the road to where I now live. Through my Japanese colleague I learnt that he flew it's last mission to a British held airfield after Japan's surrender somewhere in the Pacific, there he handed it over to the British Airforce for evaluation. During WW2 he was responsible for carrying out reconaissance missions. Anyway I conntacted the museum's press team and arranged for Mr Morita to be reunited with his Mitsubishi Dinaha. It generated quite a bit of interest, enough so that these two magazines run an articles on it. The annoying thing is I had copies of these magazines with pictures of Mr Morita standing by his aircraft and when I last cleaned out the garage I think they were accidently thrown out, along with a thank you letter from Mr Morita. I know I will not be able to replace the letter, but I would love to get hold of copies of the two magazines. I know RAF Cosford is only just down the road, but I thought I'd try my luck here first. Regards Kieron
Originally posted by kieron hill@Feb 9 2005, 08:32 PM Hi all, I wonder if anyone collects and keeps copies of military flying magazines, I think they are called Fly Past and Pilot I am not sure. About 6-7 years ago I worked as a operations manger for a japanese international freight forwarder importing and exporting goods all over the world. I worked for some pretty big corperations, one in particular was either Sumitomo or Ashai Corp I can't remember which one, but the president of it was visiting the UK. I heard through a Japanese colleague that he flew a aircraft that was now at a museum in the UK (the actual one). Well I did a bit of investigating and found that he flew the Mitsubishi Dinaha, which is held at RAF Cosford just down the road to where I now live. Through my Japanese colleague I learnt that he flew it's last mission to a British held airfield after Japan's surrender somewhere in the Pacific, there he handed it over to the British Airforce for evaluation. During WW2 he was responsible for carrying out reconaissance missions. Anyway I conntacted the museum's press team and arranged for Mr Morita to be reunited with his Mitsubishi Dinaha. It generated quite a bit of interest, enough so that these two magazines run an articles on it. The annoying thing is I had copies of these magazines with pictures of Mr Morita standing by his aircraft and when I last cleaned out the garage I think they were accidently thrown out, along with a thank you letter from Mr Morita. I know I will not be able to replace the letter, but I would love to get hold of copies of the two magazines. I know RAF Cosford is only just down the road, but I thought I'd try my luck here first. Regards Kieron [post=31360]Quoted post[/post] As a sprog at Cosford, its a long story but I sat in that particular aircraft. as for Flypast magazine, I normally throw them out - sorry! But here is their website http://www.flypast.com/ they might be able to help you with back copies or even photos.
Great story. That may be the world's only surviving Dinah. She was an unarmed reconnaissance plane, if memory serves.
Originally posted by Kiwiwriter@Feb 10 2005, 03:38 PM Great story. That may be the world's only surviving Dinah. She was an unarmed reconnaissance plane, if memory serves. [post=31380]Quoted post[/post] Dinah
