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Aviation History
1935
1935 - 1229.PDF
MAY 23, 1935. FLIGHT. 5Ji THE >YAL SERVICE NOTES AND NEWS Fc ORCE AIR MINISTRY ANNOUNCEMENTS ON DUM DUM AERODROME : The Vickers " Vildebeests " ("Pegasus ") of No. 100 (Bomber) Squadron at Calcutta en route for Risalpur from Singapore. The return journey amounted to 7,000 miles. NOMENCLATURE OF AIRCRAFT—" LONDON " The official name of the Saunders-Roe general-purpose flying boat fitted with " Pegasus " engines is " London." THE R.A.F. DISPLAY R.A.F. personnel serving at home and personnel on leave from abroad, reserve officers, and officers and airmen of the Special Reserve and of the Auxiliary Air Force and also members of Princess Mary's R.A.F. Nursing Service, are each provisionally tn titled to free admission for themselves and two guests, as fol lows:—Officers, cadets and members of Princess Mary's R.A.F. Nursing Service (whether in uniform or plain clothes), three tickets, which entitle the holders to free admission to the 10s. enclosure; warrant officers, and N.C.O.s of, and above, the rank of sergeant (whether in uniform or plain clothes), three tickets, which entitle the holders to free admission to a 5s. enclosure; airmen of, and below, the rank of corporal, and aircraft apprentices (uniform com pulsory), free admission to a 2s. enclosure without ticket. Also two free 2s. enclosure tickets for the use of t*o guests. Service personnel engaged on duty at the Display are each en titled to tickets of free admission for three guests in addition tc their own free admission duty badge or brassard. Service personnel at home who, for service reasons, are unable to attend the Display, but whose relatives desire to do so, arc entitled to two tickets of free admission. Service personnel stationed abroad whose relatives at home desire to attend the Display are entitled to two tickets of free admission (which are issuable only in response to application from the rela tives themselves). Applications tor such tickets, supported by definite evidence as to the identity of the applicant, may be sub mitted as follows: —(a) Officers on leave from abroad and relatives of officers serving abroad—to the Secretary, Air Ministry, (4>) Air men on leave from abroad and relatives of airmen serving abroad— to the Officer i/c Records, Ruislip, Middlesex, who, if satisfied that the applicants are qualified, will demand tickets from the Display Secretary for them. Regular personnel of the Royal Navy and Army or of the Dominion Air Forces attached to the Royal Air Force are entitled to the same privileges with regard to free admission for themselves and guests to the R.A.F. Display as personnel of corresponding ranks in the Royal Air Force. The civilian staff of the Air Ministry, and the civilian staff and civilian employees at Air Ministry outstations, who desire to attend the Display this year may each be supplied with not more than two tickets at hall the normal price of admission to the 10s., 5s., or 2s. enclosure (including admission at the entrance gates) The privilege of attending the Display at a reduced price of admission has again been extended to non-air iorce members of light aeroplane clubs, who may each be supplied with not more than two tickets for the price of one, admitting to the 10s. enclo sure (including admission at the entrance gates). - The scale of charges applicable generally for admission to the R.A'.F. Station, Hendon (which includes Admission 'to the enclosures specified) is as follows : — (i) Boxes (to hold six persons, including children), i7—i$—lA.
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