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1937
1937 - 0294.PDF
no FLIGHT. FEBRUARY 4, 1937. FOR YUGO-SLAVIA : Despite the enormous amount of work created by the expansion of our own Air Force the industry is still able to cope with orders from abroad. This aerial photograph shows one of a batch of the latest Hawker Furies for Yugo-Slavia. Fitted with a Rolls-Royce Kestrel XVI and Dowty cantilever undercarriage it has a speed of 250 m.p.h. (Flight photograph.) to make people's flesh creep. To some extent it seems that he has succeeded, and perhaps there is no great harm in that. There may be an unpleasant surprise for income-tax payers in the next Budget, and it may reconcile them to the unpleasantness to think how very much more unpleasant it would be to be bombed. It is usual for insurance companies to display posters of houses on fire so as to induce citizens to take out policies. It may sound paradoxical to say that air defence is a subject which is indivisible but is divided, yet that would only state the case. Hence the complication that in Parliament an hon. member, wrhen discussing the home defence Air Force, is out of order if he men tions the Territorial Army. Sir Murray Sueter was the only member bold enough to defy this rule in the defence debate, and he is evidently a privileged person, for the Deputy Speaker allowed him to ramble round Malta, and he also poked into the office of the '' Defence Minister," as he called Sir Thomas Inskip. Yet he came to ground, literally and metaphorically, with sound common sense when he urged that it was high time that the whole defence of London and our big cities was placed under the Air Ministry—and he was not called to order. There we have a matter of the utmost importance, for without very smart co-operation between the ground troops and the fighter aeroplanes the enemy raiders are likely to make an easy untroubled journey to London, and all the mass production and shadow industries in the world will not stop them. Yet Sir Murray was the only member who took up this vital point in the debate. Sir Thomas Inskip '' be lieved '' that our anti-aircraft defences are the very best that can be devised from the point of view of the guns, the searchlights, the instruments, and the methods of detecting aircraft. It is most comforting to hear that, for a very few months ago the very reverse was the case, and the guns and the equipment were about due for admission to some museum. Why, we should like to know, does not some M.P. call for a Government statement showing the progress in re-equipping the ground troops of the air defence organisation with new arms and instruments? THE HONOURS LIST I N the first Honours List of the Reign of King George VI there appear the following names of persons connected with civil and military flying. Mr. H. T. Tizard, who has been created a K.C.B., has been chairman of the Aeronautical Research Committee since 1933 and is Rector of the Imperial College of Science and Technology. On page 126 are listed other honours granted to officers and men of the Royal Air Force. Among the officers who are awarded the Air Force Cross are Sqn. Ldr. F. R. D. Swain, who regained the altitude record for Britain, and Fit. Lt. C. F. Uwins, chief test pilot of the Bristol Company. Baronet Sir Derwent Hall Caine, M.P. M.V.O. (Fourth Class) Wing Commander Edward Hedley Fielden, A.F.C. C.B. (Military Division) Air Vice-Marshal William Lawrie Welsh, D.S.C., A.F.C. Air Commodore Arthur William Tedder. K.C.B. (Civil Division) Henry Thomas Tizard, C.B., A.F.C., F.R.S. M.B.E. (Military Division) Quartermaster and Hon. Flight Lieutenant Hugh Cully, Royal Australian Air Force. M.B.E. (Civil Division) Arthur Reginald Tooke, Officer Supervisor, Headquarters, R.A.F., India. Charles Bennett, Acting Senior Contract Officer, Air Ministry- C.B.E. (Military Division) Air Commodore James Bevan Bowen, O.B.E. British Empire Medal (Military Division) Leading Aircraftman Harold Edgar Gundry.
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