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1935 - 0694.PDF
334 FLIGHT. MARCH 28, 1935 THE OYAL SERVICE NOTES AND NEWS Fc ORCE AIR MINISTRY ANNOUNCEMENTS MILITARISED: The "Dragon Rapide " ordered for No. 24 (Communications) Squadron at Hendon. (Flight photograph.) FAST TRANSPORT FOR THE AIR COUNCIL The D.H. " Dragon Rapide " (two " Gipsy VI " engines), ordered by the Air Ministry for the use of the Air Council, has now been delivered. Apart from the Service marking, the " Kapide" is, to outward view, quite standard. Several special features of equip ment have, however, been ordered. A Harley landing light, with a dipping mechanism controllable from the pilot's seat, is mounted in the nose and a signalling lamp is fitted beneath the fuselage. There is a second emergency exit in the forward part of the cabin and a rip panel in the cockpit for easy egress with parachutes. Ik-hind the pilot's bulkhead is a Marconi receiving and transmitting set, operated either by the pilot himself or by an operator; a dual- purpose generator supplies current for both lighting and radio. R.A.F. FLYING ACCIDENTS The Air Ministry regrets to announce that F/O. George Edward Bullen Nixon and A.P/O. Colin Kirkley, the pilot and passenger of the aircraft, lost their lives in an accident which occurred near Scop- wick, Lincolnshire, on March 18, 1935, to a " Tutor " aircraft of No. 2 living Training School, Digby, Lincolnshire. The Air Ministry regrets to announce that F/O. Archibald Mouritz Doran lost his life at Eastchurch as the result of falling from a " Wapiti " aircraft of the Air Armament School, Eastchurch, on March 21, 1935. F/O. Doran was the passenger of the aircraft. At the inquest on Friday last, when a verdict of accidental death was returned, F/O. E. C. Ingham, the pilot of the machine, said it was laid down to be the pilot's duty to ascertain if the passenger had the safety wire attached before taking off. He asked Doran whether he was ready to take off, and he replied that he was. During a gliding turn at 500 to 700 feet he heard a thump and thought Doran had fallen into the bottom of the cockpit. He looked into the cockpit and could not see him, but saw two pieces of cowling falling. On landing he found the bombing platform open. His theory was that Doran had finished his second film and leaned back against the back part of the gun ring. " That would make his feet tend to slide forward, and his full weight would be tending to push the platform forward," he said. " I suggest that that weight suddenly shot the platform forward. The natural thing to do when that happened would be to step back. I think he did this and fell out." THE R.A.F. BENEVOLENT FUND Meeting of Council, March 13, 1935 The first Council Meeting of the year 1935 was held at the offices of the Fund, No. 7 Iddesleigh House, Caxton Street, London, S.W.i, at 2.30 p.m., on Wednesday, March 13, 1935. The Viscount Wake field, of Hythe, was in the chair. The auditors' accounts for the year 1934 were approved by the Council. In his report the Honorary Treasurer, Mr. W. S. Field, recorded that gross expenditure on relief totalled £16,190, an amount only slightly less than the peak year 1933. It is evident that in spite of improving trade conditions applications for assistance are increasing at a rate, and in measure peculiar to the Service that trains as well as fights in the air. Happily, however, donations during 1934 were appreciably higher than in 1933, and it had been possible to resume the normal policy of providing assistance on a generous scale, and the year had finished with a credit balance. The Honorary Treasurer pointed out, how ever, that of the total income less than one half was derived from dividends. As long as the Fund is so dependent upon sources which are liable to be affected by economic conditions, and which may even be withdrawn altogether in time of a national emergency, the urge to secure bigger dividends by increased capital will persist. Funds must therefore be built up, and this must be done without any departure from the policy of giving generously in all deserving cases. The Council have confirmed the formation of a special Con tingencies Fund to be drawn upon in emergency. The usual financial resolutions concerning the first quarter of the year were then carried. The Council were informed that grants to the amount of £3,402 12s. oxl. had been disbursed since ^e.~f; meeting on December 5, 1934, and that 542 applications had Been dealt with. Although the number of applications dealt with wa slightly less than for the same period in the preceding year, tn expenditure on grants was the greatest recorded in the history the Fund. Donations had been received amounting to £1,231 9s- "ir\ representing an increase of approximately £660 over the same pen last year. The increase is due mainly to a legacy of £300 'eit.(^ Major-General C. M. Ross-Johnson, and the lecture given by • • C. W. A. Scott at the Queen's Hall on February 7, 1935, «sul""j in a donation to this Fund of £251 13s. id. Members of (-° ^s heartily supported Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan in a vote of than - to Lord Wakefield.
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