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1938
1938 - 1967.PDF
JULY 7, 1938. FLIGHT. Unit Transfers THE K.A.F. Station, Cranfield, and the units at that station were transferred within the Bomber Command from No. I (Bomber) Group to No. 2 (Bomber) Group, with effect from June 15. The K.A.F. Station, Andover, and the units at that "station were transferred within the Bomber Command from No. 2 (Bombei) Group to No. 1 (Bomber) Group, with effect from June 15. All floatplane training for F.A.A. pilots, including the Walrus con version course, which was undertaken by " A " flight, R.A.F. Station, Calshot, was transferred to the K.A.F. Station, Lee-en- SolenL, with effect from June 8. Flying Accidents THE Air Ministry regrets to announce that an accident occurred near Cape Rachado on June 21 to two aircraft of No. 100 (T.-B.) Sqn., Seletar, Straits Settlements, in which the following occupants are missing and believed to have lost their lives:—F/O. Act. Fit. Lt. Richard Clive Meares, F/O. George Leslie Arthur Cooper, P/O. Hugh Angus Bethune, L.A/C. Hugh Thomas, L.A/C. William 21 Service Aviation DESERT FORMATION: No. 45 (B.) Squadron, the first in the Middle East to be equipped with Vickers Wellesleys, are stationed at Helwan, Egypt. The specially prepared long-range Welles- leys may soon be in Egypt, and Ismailia has been named as a possible take-off point for Australia. Stanley Lawrence,' A/C. 1st Class George Leonard Walters. Fit. Lt. Meares and F/O. Cooper were the pilots of their respective aircraft and the other missing occupants formed the crews. The Air Ministry also regrets to announce the following: — A.P/O. Colin William Edward Milburn lost his life in an accident which occurred near Filkins, Gloucestershire, on June 20, to an aircraft of No. 2 F.T.S., Brize Norton, Carterton, Oxford. He was the sole occupant of the air craft. A/C. 2nd Class William John Richards lost his life, and P/O. Jack Llewellyn Ellis was severely injured, in an accident which occurred at Lee-on-Solent on June 22, 1938, to an aircraft of No. 2 A.-A.C. Unit, Lee-on-Solent, Hamp shire. P/O. Ellis was the pilot of the aircraft and A/C. Richards was the other member of the crew. P/O. Charles Alexander Stephen and Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Davies lost their lives in an accident which occurred at Habbaniya on June 29 to an aircraft of No. 30 (B.) Sqn., Habbaniya, Iraq. P/O. Stephen was the pilot and Aircraftman Davies was the other member of the crew. Fit. Lt. William Forster Pharazyn lost his life in a collision in the air which occurred near Selby on June 29 between two aircrait of No. 72 (F.) Sqn., Church Fenton, Yorkshire. Fit. Lt. Pharazyn was the pilot and sole occupant of one aircraft. The occupant of the other aircraft was not injured. P/O. Bonar Roy Whaley and P/O. Charles Connell Law lost their lives in an accident which occurred at Holywell, Folkestone, on June 25, to an aircraft of No. 25 (F.) Sqn. P/O. Bonar Roy Whaley was the pilot and P/O. Charles Connell Law a passenger. Sgt. Thomas Murray Heron lost his life in an accident which occurred at Cray, Ayrshire, on June 25 to an aircraft of No. 12 Elementary and Reserve F.T.S. Sgt. Thomas Murray Heron was the pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft. FOREIGN SERVICE NEWS More Bombers for Dutch Indies A THIRD batch of thirty-nine Glenn Martin bombers will tie delivered to the Dutch East Indies in 1939, and if tests at present in progress on the Fokker T9 bomber prove successful a large order will be given for these machines also. This would necessitate an extension of Fokker's Serienbau works. Curtiss Activities SEPTEMBER should see the test flights of the first of an order of thirteen Curtiss YP-37 pursuit machines. The whole order should be completed by next March. The power plant is a 1,000-h.p. liquid cooled Allison equipped with a turbo-blower as well as an integral gear driven supercharger. It drives a Curtiss feathering airscrew. The fifty-eight supplementary Curtiss SBC Scout bombers on order to complete a total of one hundred and forty-one< for operation from U.S. aircraft carriers will be of the SBC-4 type. These have single- row Cyclone engines instead of the Twin Wasps fitted to the SBC-3 already in sendee. Work has been started on these machines. Block 210 Bombers for Roumania W E learn from Les Ailes that five of an order for ten Marcel-Bloch 210 twin-engine bombers recently left the .works for Roumania. The order was placed last year and Gnome-Rhone 14 No two-row radials are specified. With these engines, giving some 1,000 h.p. each, the 210 should cruise at about 200 m.p.h. Turret Trouble IT is reported that the semi-circular tail turret on the Consolidated XPB2Y-1 flying boat, though very clean, has caused difficulties with turbulence over the tail. Investigations into the effect of adding a slotted vane te the sides of the turret have been made. Experiments have also been made ..with a third false wooden step to improve hydrodynamic qualities. RECORD HOLDER : Used by Rossi to set up three new international records, this Amiot 370, with liquid-cooled, 900 h.p. Hispano-Suiza 12 Y 21 engines, closely resembles a new production Amiot bomber. The maximum speed of the machine is imbably as high as 290 m.p.h. A Gnome-Rhone radial-engined version has also been produced.
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