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1935
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JUNE 13, 1935. FLIGHT. 629 From left to right, the accom panying Flight photographs taken at Hucknail show air craftmen at work on one of the Wallaces; armourers loading - up with practice bombs for use on the range at Waddington, and forma tions of No. 504's "Wallaces" flying over their home city of Nottingham. quently, at the moment of writing, there are three new officers being trained on Avros, and not yet able to do full work on the " Wallaces " with which the squadron is equipped. " B " and " C " Flights are commanded and manned by S.R. officers and men at the week-ends. For the rest of the week a regular officer is put in temporary com mand of each flight, and carries on the routine work and sees to any repairs and maintenance which may be neces sary for the machines. On Saturday afternoon the regular hands over to the S.R. Flight Lieutenant—and the Air Force List shows that one of these S.R. Flight Lieutenants has been granted the Air Force Cross. Nottingham's Pride Nottingham city is evidently very proud of its squadron, and with good cause. It is a great industrial citv, and most of the prominent employers of labour, such as Boots, Players, the Raleigh Cycle Co., and the extensive lace industry are strong supporters of the squadron, and highly approve of their employees serving in it as airmen. It should be mentioned that now the Special Reserve sergeants take the same trade tests as are taken by regular R.A.F. sergeants, and it follows that the official qualifica tions of the two classes of N.C.O. are the same, although the regulars naturally have greater practical experience in the work. A recent innovation is that the Special Reserve officers are to follow out the scheme of training laid down by the Headquarters of Air Defence of Great Britain for regular officers of the Home Defence force. The latter go through the course in a year, and such expedition can hardly be expected of men who can give only week-ends to their squadron work. It is certainly right to aim high, and this is in the nature of an experiment. At first there must be speculation as to how long the average time will be for the S.R. officers to qualify under this scheme, and no time limit except the five years of their engage ment has been laid down. With such a keen lot of men it may not be rash to prophesy that A.D.G.B. will be surprised at the results. Photographic Section A special word of praise should be given to the squadron's photographic section. It consists of a regular N.C.O. and one regular and three S.R. airmen. The photographs turned out are of a quality which stands high even among the products of other R.A.F. photographic sections. This excellence, it may be remarked, is not due to the possession of anything startlingly new in the way of aerial cameras or other equipment. At the beginning of May, No. 65 (Fighter) Squadron came up from Hornchurch to affiliate with No. 504 B.S. No. 65 F.S. is equipped with " Demons," and practised attacks by two-seater fighters on the " Wallace " bombers. It was an interesting occasion, which every body enjoyed and from which much profitable experience was gained. Cadre squadrons must necessarily do much of their training work on Sundays, but the religious side of the
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