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1939
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10 FLIGHT. JANUARY 5, 1939 H.M.S. ARK ROYAL Recently commissioned, Britain's new aircraft'carrier displaces 22,000 tons and has a flying deck nearly 800 feet long. She was launched at Birkenhead on April 13, 1937. SERVICE AVIATION Decorations THE Air Ministry announces that the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the following rewards to the undermen tioned officers and airmen: — THE ATR FORCE CROSS ROYAL AIR FORCE:—Wing Cdr. H. K. Goode, D.S.O., D.F.C., Sqn. IAI. R. O. Jones, Sqn. Ldr. G. R. Ashton, Sqn. Ldr. J. W. Gillan, Sqn Ldr J. F. X. McKenna, Sqn. Ldr. S. R. Ubee, Sqn. Ldr. G. Silyn-Roberts, Fit. Lt. W. D. Disbrey, F/O (Acting Flight Lieu tenant) N. M. Hall, F/O. J. A. Kent, P/O., now F/O., G. F. Rodney. RESERVE OF AIR FORCE OFFICERS:—Fit. Lt. C. A. Pike. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE:—F/O. H. A. Durant. THE AIR FORCE MEDAL ROYAL AIR FORCE:—Fit. Sgts. W. Lawry, J. N. Ogle, J. M. Whit- well and R. G. Williams, Sgt. G. H. L. Baker, Sgt. (now Flight Sgt.) D. A. Haydon, Sgts. J. Shearsmith, E. T. Summers, and G. A. Tansley, Corpls. V. J. Carter and D. H. Davis. R.R.C. The King has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Roval Red Cross (Second Class) to the undermentioned mem bers of Princess Marv's Royal Air Force Nursing Service: — Senior Sister Miss E. M. Clements and Miss L. E. Taylor, in recognition of the special devotion and competency displayed by them in the nursing and care of the sick in Royal Air Force hospitals at home and abroad. Another Canadian Order THE Air Ministry has awarded the Canadian Car and Foundry Company a contract for the construction of first-line aircraft at the Fort William, Ontario, plant of the company, according to Mr. Victor M. Drury, president of the company, who recently returned from England. This order is independent of any contracts the company may receive through the central aircraft assembly company, Canadian Associated Aircraft, Ltd., formed by Canadian aircraft manufacturers for the construction of aeroplanes for the British Government. The Canadian Car and Foundry Company expect to keep 500 men employed at its factory. Maintenance Trades Reorganised A NEW organisation of certain trades engaged in the repair and maintenance of airframes, engines, electrical and other equip ment is to be introduced gradually into the Service. In future these trades will be as follows: — Fitter grade I (Combined fitter and rigger) Fitter grade II (airframe) Fitter grade II (engine) Flight rigger (A ptoportion of flight riggers will be trained as carpenter riggers) Flight mechanic Flight Rigger and Flight Mechanic are two permanent Group II trades which will be introduced to undertake minor inspection, etc., in flights. The trade of Mate will gradually disappear. A new trade of Electrician is being introduced in Group II, and the trade of Wireless Operator Mechanic will be renamed " Wire less and Electrical Mechanic." A new trade of Instrument Repairer is being introduced in Group II. A proportion of these tradesmen will be allowed to remuster as Instrument Maker (Group I). - Magisters for Egypt IT is stated that an order for 23 Magisters for the training of Royal Egyptian Air Force pilots has been placed with Phillips and Powis, Ltd. Delivery will start shortly. FA.A. Repair Ship THE name H.M.S. Unicom has been chosen for the Fleet Air Arm repair ship, provision for which is included in the current Naval Estimates. No order has yet been placed for the build ing of the ship, and it is not known if the design has yet been decided upon. Such a ship will doubtless be very useful, especially in overseas stations, but it will not undertake major repairs. They will be carried out at the F.A.A. depot to be established at Lee-on-the- Solent. Antipodean Co-operation CLOSER co-operation between the air forces of Australia and New Zealand is foreshadowed by the recent statement of Mr. Lyons, the Australian Prime Minister, in which he indicated that the Government was convinced that the Air Force could make a major contribution to the solution of Australian Defence problems. It is believed (as already intimated in Flight) that certain squad rons of the R.A.A.F. will be equipped with twin-engined long-range amphibians which could co-operate with the thirty Vickers Welling ton bombers (as now being supplied in quantity to the R.A.F.) now being built for the New Zealand Government. These latter machines, incidentally, will probably be flown out from England in easy stages. Unit Badges H IS MAJESTY THE KING has graciously approved the under mentioned badges and mottoes for the units concerned and they may now be taken into use: — Unit. No. 73 (Fighter) Squadron No. 82 (Bomber) Squadron No. 90 (Bomber) Squadron No. 139 (Bomber) Squadron No. 501 (County of Gloucester) (Fighter) Squadron. No. 614 (County of Glamorgan)(A.C.) Squad ron. No. 1 Air Observers School Badge. A demi talbot rampant, charged on the shoulder, with a maple leaf. In front of a sun in splendour, a weather-cock. A hind salient ... In front of a crescent, a fasies... A boar's head couped On a demi-terrestrial globe, a dragon passant. A Wing Motto. Tutor et Ultor. Super Omnia Ubique. Celer. Si Placet Necamus. Nil Time. Codaf I Geisio. Nosce Arma Tua.
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