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424 FLIGHT. APRIL 29, 1937. THE A T—1 ,OYAL AIR FORCE FROM HAMPSHIRE TO YORKSHIRE : The Lawrence Minot Trophy, competed for annually by heavy bomber squadrons, once lived for years on end at Worthy Down, where it was won each year by either No. 7 or No. 58 (Bomber) Squadron. This year it has been won by No. 215 (B) Squadron, stationed at Driffield. This group shows the winners and the Trophy. Names L. to R. :—Back row, A; C.i Carrot, L.A/C. McNichol, A/C.i Berry. Front row, Sergt. Chown, Sqn. Ldr. J. L. Kirby, Sergt. Burrows, L.A/C. Darbyshire. NEW SQUADRON FORMED No. 62 (Bomber) Squadron formed at Abingdon on April 12 and will be equipped with medium bomber aircraft. The unit has been placed in the Bomber Command, in No. 1 (Bomber) Group. MOVES OF SQUADRONS No. 226 (Bomber) Squadron moved from Upper Heyford to Har well on April 16. No. 38 (Bomber) Squadron will move from Mildenhall to Marham on .Miry 5. AUXILIARY AIR FORCE UNITS -No. 607 (County of Durham) (Fighter) Squadron and No. 608 (North Hiding) (Fighter) Squadron will be transferred to the Fighter Command and placed in No. 12 (Fighter) Group with effect from May 5. PROMOTION TO SQUADRON LEADER The prescribed seniority as flight lieutenant qualifying for promo tion will be reduced from five to three years, with effect from June 1, until further notice. The qualifying period allowing an officer to sit for the flight lieutenant promotion examination " C " will be reduced from three to two years in the rank until further notice. MOVE OF No. 5 FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL No. 5 Flying Training School will move from Sealand to Hullaving- ton. The move is to be completed by July 9. The R.A.F. Station, Hullavington, will be placed under the com mand of the A.O.C.-in-C. Training Command in No. 23 (Training) Group with effect from June 4. The postal address is: Stanton St. Quinton, Chippenham, Wilts. A station headquarters will form at Sealand on June 1 and will take over executive command of the station on a date to be notified later. On the move of No. 5 Flying Training School from Sealand, the station will be transferred to the Bomber Command and placed in No. 2 (Bomber) Group. The Packing Depot will also be trans ferred to the Bomber Command but the present system of adminis tration will not be changed. AIR MINISTRY ANNOUNCEMENTS OPENINGS FOR 1,300 BOYS .Tuesday next is the closing day for applications for the 1,300 posts which the Air Ministry is now offering to well-educated lads between the ages of 15 and 17. They will enter the Koyal Air Force as aircraft apprentices in August next. Alter three years' thorough training as fitters, wireless operator mechanics, or instru ment makers, they go to operational squadrons, flying training schools or workshops, where they are employed as highly skilled tradesmen. For some of them there are opportunities to fly as one of an aeroplane crew and for others a chance to become a pilot. Apprentice iraining takes place at splendidly equipped technical schools at Hal ton, Bucks, and Cranwell, Lines. The popularity of the scheme is evident from the fact that 5,000 apprentices are at present under training. Immediate application for particulars of the scheme should be made to any schoolmaster or to the Air Ministry (Dept. I. of R.), London, W.C.2. FORMATION OF STORAGE UNIT No. 3 (M.T.) Storage Unit formed at Mousehold, Norwich, on March 30, and was placed in the Training Command, in No. 24 (Training) Group, with effect from that date. No. 45 SQUADRON DINNER The organisers of the No. 45 Squadron dinner are Mr. Bernard Weatherall, 146, Prince's Road, Brockhurst Hill, Essex, and Mr. Howard W. Grimmett, 18, Leyland Road, Lee, London, S.E.12, from whom further particulars can be obtained. The cost of the dinner will be 3s. 6d. EXTENSIONS OF SERVICE The undermentioned pilot officers have been selected for extension of service to complete six years on the active list: — Allan Stuart Ainslie, Bryan Bell, John Rutherford Irving Bell, William Hugh Biddell, Charles Beresford Eaton Burt-Andrews, John Butterworth, Peter Douglas Dudley Carlton, -Wilfrid Allen Lance Davis, Alexander Charles Douglas, Charles Ernest Drapper, James Nigel Watts Farmer, Jeaffreson Herbert Greswell, Peter Hacfneid, Jack Donald Harris, Anthony Hibberd, Caesar Barraud Hull, Geoffrey Cockayne Hyde, Charles Edward Johnson, Robert Nugent Lambert, Malcolm John Loudon, Geoffrey Lowe, Vivien Elliott Marshall, Thomas Frederick Dalton Morgan, William George Moseby, Michael George Foster Pedley, Ronald Anthony George Petrie, George Hugo Formby Plinston, Denis Dimond Rawlins, Peter Henry Rebbeck, Arthur James Robinson, William Riley, Frederick Ernest Rosier, Barnard Johnston Sandeman, Kenneth Slater, Harold Wray Tennant, Frank George Ralph Thomas, John Gordon Towle, John Stewart Tupholme, John Warre Bradney Vernon, Peter Russell Walker, Richard Kemp Wildey, Geoffrey Middleton Wyatt. FLYING IN VICINITY OF CIVIL AIRPORTS A number of complaints have been received with regard to Service aircraft flying in the vicinity of civil airports in conditions of low cloud or poor visibility, thereby causing danger to civil aircraft approaching on radio bearings. The attention of all pilots is drawn to Notice to Airmen No. 158/1936, and especially to paras. 10 and n thereof. Pilots are to note that a controlled zone exists around all the civil aeronautical ground stations mentioned in the Air Pilot, part I, pages 50, 51 and 52, with the exception of Jersey and Pulham. FLYING ACCIDENTS The Air Ministry regrets to announced that A/C.i George Peter Smurthvvaite lost his life in an accident which occurred near Wald- ringfield, Suffolk, on April 19, to an aircraft of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Martlesham Heath. A/C.i Smurthwaite was a passenger in the aircraft, which was piloted by» Flight Lieut. Maurice Hare, who received slight injuries. The Ministry also regrets to announce that Cpl. Walter Kirby Jackson lost his life in an accident which occurred at Portmadoc on April 23 to an aircraft of No. 6 Flying Training School. Cpl. Jackson was the pilot of the aircraft. The only other occupant, L.A/C. Leonard Hopkirk, escaped with slight injuries. ROYAL AIR FORCE GAZETTE London Gazette, April 20, 1937 . General Duties Branch J. R. MacLachlan is granted a permanent commission as Pilot Officer with effect from May 26, 1934, and with seniority of Novem- 4>er 26, 1932 (substituted for notification in the Gazette of June 5» 1934). ...'•'' . The following Pilot Officers on probation are confirmed in their appointments (Febfuary 5):—M. J. Loudon, R. R. S.- Tuck.. •
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