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1937
1937 - 2164.PDF
J3" FLIGHT. AUGUST 5, 1937, CEDA1 IOC A ALIS Now each University Squadron has some Harts in addition to its Tutors. Three Oxford Harts are seen flying along the South Coast. TERM is over—in fact, it has been over for some weeks —and the three University Air Squadrons have been in camp. Attachment is the official term for the annual training, for usually each squadron is attached to an R.A.F. station, but camp is an easier and more popular word, and in the case of Oxford this year it is more literally correct. Cambridge and London certainly were attached, Cambridge to Abingdon station and London to Halton, while Oxford lived under canvas on Ford Aerodrome, which at the moment is not one of the stations of the R.A.F., though the Directorate of Works will soon convert it into one. U.L.A.S. Let us discuss the doings of the three squadrons in the order in which the Air Ministry permitted us to visit them. Thus the University of London Air Squadron takes pride of place, and, after all, it is right to give prominence tp the youngest. In term time this squadron goes for flying instruction to Northolt, where the Station Flight teaches its wings to sprout. Ground instruction is given at the H.Q. in Exhibition Road, South Kensington. In these enlightened days all three Universities allow members of the squadrons to fly solo during term time, which was once forbidden, and this is a great boon. Formerly men who were fully competent to fly solo were kept back until the squadron went into camp, which de layed their progress and was apt to dishearten them. By the end of camp practically all the members are qualified to fly solo, though they continue to receive dual instruction when that seems advisable. This is only the second year in which the U.L.A.S. has gone to camp, and its establishment is still only fifty members. It is hoped that next year it will be allowed to enrol seventy-five, as the two older squadrons are allowed to do. They went to Halton in two batches, each batch for a fortnight. Wing Cdr. T. F. W. Thompson, D.F.C., himself an old London University man, is the chief instructor, and he had with him at Halton his adjutant, Fit. Lt. J. Grandy ; the Chief Flying Instruc tor, Sqn. Ldr. Hamersley, M.C., and eight other instructors, four of whom were sergeant pilots. The 'Stand-easy" by the O.U.A.S. at Ford Aerodrome. Holding a paper is the Chief Instructor, Wing Cdr. C. K. Lowe, M.C., D.F.C., and on the left is the Chief Flying Instructor, Sqn. Ldr. G. M. Knocker.
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