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JULY 1, 1926 AIR MINISTRY NOTICES Watchet Anti-Aircraft Artillery Range IT is notified that :— 1. Anti-aircraft artillery practice which takes place at Watchet forms a danger to aircraft when flying above the area described below. 2. Pilots should therefore avoid this area, as no liability for accidents arising to aircraft as a result of such artillery practice will be admitted. 3. No special warning signals for aircraft will be displayed, but the usual flag signals, etc., as indicated, will be employed whenever firing is taking place. 4.—Details. Description and Position.—An area comprising an irregular segment of a circle enclosed, on the seaward side, between the radii, approximately 6 miles in length, bearing 289° True and 70° True respectively, and having as their centre a point approximately 1J miles E. of Watchet, Somersetshire. The centre of this area is situated 8 miles E.N.E. of Min'ehead, in latitude 51° 13' N., longitude 3° 18' W. Programme of h'iring.—From June 20 daily, until the end of September, 1926. Warning Signals.—Red flags by day, and groups of three red lights, arranged in a vertical line, by night. Air Pilot.—A reference to this Notice should be inserted, temporarily, in the Air Pilot, para. 71 p. 22). (No. 28 of 1926.) Flight Over Royal Air Force Aerodromes IT is notified : 1. Notice to Airmen No. 22 of 1926 4s cancelled and the following substituted :— 2. The General Rules for Air Traffic comprised in Section III of Annex D of the International Air Convention, and repro- duced in Section III of Schedule IV to the Air Navigation (Consolidation) Order, 1923, are observed by all Royal Air Force aircraft,-except in the following circumstances :— (a) During air fighting practice. (b) During formation flying, training or practice. (c) When aircraft of experimental units are engaged in research. 3. Civil aircraft, therefore, should as far as possible avoid flying over or in the vicinity of Royal Air Force' aerodromes and should in all cases give way to formations of aircraft. I doing so they should observe the same rules as would apply between a flying machine and an airship. 4. Civil aircraft en route to or from the Continent should, inparticular, avoid flying over Biggin Hill Aerodrome. Aircraft leaving or approaching Croydon should pass over or nearTatsfield Lighthouse. AIR PILOT.—An amendment to the Air Pilot, para. 74A, willbe published in due course. (No. 29 of 1926.) ROYAL AIR FORCE MEMORIAL FUND THE third meeting of the year of the executive committee of the above fund was held at the offices of the fund, at Iddesleigh House, on June 9. Lord Hugh Cecil, P.C., M.P., was in the chair, and there was a large attendance of members. The committee voted a sum of money for current repairs at Vanbrugh Castle School, Blackheath, and also voted an annual sum of ^100 towards the upkeep of the school as regards repairs. Two cases of application for benefit arising out of the Salting Benefaction, one being a renewal, and for the educa- tion of the children of deceased officers, were considered and approved. The Committee were informed that the Grants Sub- Committee at their fortnightly meetings, between the date April 21 and the present time, had dealt with 50 cases, and that in the same period the secretary had dealt with 57 cases of appeals for assistance. The Committee, at the request of the Air Council, are undertaking the custody and administration of sums of money accruing from the effects of deceased officers and airmen, and which sums are unclaimed at the expiration of six years from the death of an officer or airman. The money to be distributed under regulations laid down by the Air <$> <s> Council to widows and dependents of deceased officers and airmen, as may be found necessary. It was announced to the Committee that a panel, which has been erected in the chapel of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in memory of Gentlemen Cadets who served with the Royal Flying Corps or Royal Air Force during the Great War, has been completed. The attention of members of the committee was specially drawn to the R.A.F. Display, which will be held at Hendon, on Saturday, July 3, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the purposes of the fund by the kindness of the Air Council. It is hoped that Their Majesties, the King and Queen, will attend the display. The next meeting of the Executive Committee, as already fixed, will take place at the offices of the fund on Wednesday, July 28 next. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Grants Sub-Committee of the above Fund was held at Iddesleigh House on June 17. Lieut.-Comdr. H. E. Perrin was in the chair, and the other members of the committee present were Mrs. L. M. K. Pratt- Barlow, O.B.E., Mr. W. S. Field. The Committee considered in all 18 cases, and made grants to the amount of ^69 95. The next meeting was fixed for July 1, at 2.30 p.m. ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY New Chairman.—At a meeting of the Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Colonel the Master of Sempill was elected Chairman of the Society for the year, October, 1926, to September, 1927. ie.38 Memorial Prize.—The R.38 Memo- rial Prize, offered annually for the best paper received by the Society on some subject of a technical nature in the science of aeronautics, has been awarded this year to Mr. R. V. Southwell, F.R.S., A.F.R.Ae.S., for his paper, entitled " On the Calculation of Stresses in the Hulls of Rigid Airships." The paper will be published in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Prizes.—The regulations for the Edward Busk Memorial Prize of 20 guineas, and for the R.38 Memorial Prize of 25 guineas may be had on application to the Secretary. Entries for the former must be received by September 30, and for the latter by December 31. Associate Fellowship Examination-—Attention is again drawn to the Society's examination for Associate Fellowship. This examination will be held, provided sufficient entries are received, on September 20 (Part I), and September 21 (Part II). Entries must be received by August 23. The Society's Aims.—A booklet has been published giving briefly the work and aims of the Society. From it anyone "wishing to join the Society in any grade may obtain the particulars he wishes with regard to the qualifications neces- sary, rates of subscription, &c. The booklet will be sent post free to anyone applying for it. J. LAURENCE PRITCHARD, Hon. Secretary. No. 20 Squadron Reunion Dinner WILL be held on Saturday, July 3rd, at 8 o'clock at Gatti's Restaurant in the Strand. Tickets, 12*-. 6d, Chair- man, Major W. H. C. Mansfield, D.S.O. Any past or present member of No. 20 desirous of attending should communicate before July 2 with Capt. J. A. Hone, c/o Messrs. Kitching & Tabraham, 10 Austin Friars, E.C.2, Phone, London Wall 5005. 391
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