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1939
1939 - 0095.PDF
JANUARY 12, 1939 PORTSMOUTH For the week ended January 7, 6 hr. 5 min. flying was put in. The Civil Air Guard building is now ready for occupation, and in that section 16 hr. 30 min. was logged for last week*. One hundred and twenty-one C.A.G. pupils are taking instruction and, of this number, 43 are flying solo. Miss K. Gill has taken up the position of air hostess to the club. YAPTON The C.A.G. training at Yapton is going ahead well and 25 hr. 3 0 min. was flown during the week ended January 7. There are now 63 members under instruction and 13 are flying solo. Three " A" licences have recently been issued. In the club section 5 hr. 10 min. was logged and Mr. E. G. Fischeles has qualified for his " A " licence. BROOKLANDS The flying school and clubhouse reopened on January 2, and up to the following Saturday night 75 hours' flying was recorded. A party of members visited Ostend. Private-ownership is on the up grade at Brooklands, sixteen private machines at present being housed there. It is hoped to resume the monthly series of competitions in February and the same system as that used in 1938 will be adopted. JOHANNESBURG A club cruise to Durban took place on December 16 and another cruise to Aliwal North over the Christmas week-end. Another one was made by five members, who visited Ladybrand. A total of 536 flying hours was recorded in November and one pilot obtained his " A " licence. Messrs. Knight and Newborn passed their " B " licence night-flying test at Baragwanath. BENGAL Although the Bengal Flying Club had only one aircraft in com mission during November, 111 hr. 10 min. flying was put in. It is anticipated that the other machines will be in the air very soon as the new ground engineer, Mr. H. Popatlal, took up his duties in December. Cross-country flights to Maheshganj, Dacca, Deori and Jessore were part of the activities, and Messrs. H. H. Marshall, J. N. Ghose and G. Das passed the tests for their " A " licences. PENANG The report for November from the Penang Flying Club shows a flying total of 54 hr. 40 min., which includes 12! hr. dual instruction. This total shows a drop on the previous month, due to the fact that the staff had their annual holiday during the first fortnight of the month. Mr. L. J. Brittain made his first solo, and interesting visitors to the club included four Vickers Vildebeests from the R.A.F. at Singapore, and four machines from the Straits Settlements Volunteer Air Force. LUCKNOW AND CAWNPORE A meeting of the selection board for the U.P. Government Nominee Scheme was held at the Council Hall, Lucknow. The first Piper Cub received its C. of A. at the beginning of December, and its popularity is shown in the fact that half the U.P. Club's total flying time—98 hours for the month—were flown in it. Another Sports Cub was delivered at the end of the month. Mr. G. B. Mansukhani passed his " A " licence tests. The club was repre sented at the Karachi Air Pally by Mr. K. L. Varma with the Moth. They took part in the formation and bombing competitions. FLIGHT. 41 Private Flying HANWORTH Although no flying was possible on two days owing to adverse weather conditions, six first solo flights .were made—by Messrs. A. Freakcs, D. Gresn, P. Masefield, R. Demuth, W. Edmonds and A. Bloxham. The total flying for the week ended January 6 amounted to 4S hours. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE In spite of the bad weather experienced at Newcastle, 79 hours' flying was logged last week, 55i hours of which represented the C.A.G.'s efforts. In that section Messrs. E. W. Kenton, S. Stokoe and A. Coulson made their first solos. The C.A.G. pot-pie supper will be on January 20, and in the meantime lectures are held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. SOUTH COAST Although the weather was not very kind some flying was done. Mr. W. R. Potter qualified for his " A " licence and Mr. I. Bowman and Mrs. Haddock made iheir first solo flights. The latter, the wife of the chairman, put up a very good performance after only 5I hours' instruction. The annual general meeting was held last Saturday and was followed by a dinner and dance. The committee for 1939 is: — F. F. Haddock (chairman), W. E. Grieve, L. Bellairs, S. G. Stevens, A. Oram, W. O. Cooksey, J. Heath and G. Head. ROMFORD During the week J. Wreford qualified for his " A " licence as a C.A.G. member and 22 hours' C.A.G. flying was recorded. No. 6 (Romford) Squadron, the Air Defence Cadet Corps com manded by Sqn. Ldr. Garston Jones, should have plenty to keep them interested during the year. Recently the Air Ministry delivered to Maylands a number of rnorse keys, a transmitting and receiving set and an aeroplane engine for instructional purposes. A series of lectures are also being arranged for the Cadets on a wide variety of subjects. Drill instruction will be given on Sunday afternoons, these parades being gradually reduced as the Cadets become proficient. The completely established squadron of 100 cadets is now in uniform, and already there are many recruits waiting to be passed to the second squadron, which is in the process of formation by Councillor J. Osborn. NORFOLK AND NORWICH The completion of the Air Ministry returns for 1938 shows a total of 1,442 flying hours. Of these the Air Guard section, formed in September, contributed 296 hours and, of the remainder, the Public Schools Aviation Camp was responsible for 140 hours. Instruction, both elementary and advanced, amounted to 425 hours, and 6 " A " licences, 1 " B " licence, 7 Camp "A " licences and 8 Air Guard " A " licences give evidence of the effectiveness of the training. During the course of the year, the club fleet has been increased by an extra Moth, and an extra instructor has joined, in addition to the increased Civil Air Guard staff. The gliding section, which has been in operation for a year now, has equally good results to report—3 " C " certificates, 6 " B " certificates and 4 " A " certificates. The section started with one primary trainer and a secondary glider; it now has five machines. Towards the end of last week the snow had cleared off the aerodrome sufficiently to permit the machines to take the air—they have been in the hangar for ten days. Nearly two hundred members fore gathered to see the old year out at a dance held by the club. Pre-C.A.G. SOME interesting figures are given in the annual report of the Leicester Aero Club which has just been issued. During the year which ended on September 30 this club earned what was for them a record subsidy—derived from "A" licences, renewals and so forth—of ^825. Since at the time when the club's year ended the C.A.G. scheme had not got into its stride, the suggestion is that club affairs in that part of the world were looking up even without the new assistance. During the period concerned ten pilots were trained ab initio and forty-six licences were renewed. Mr. J. F. Carroll now holds the position of chief instructor. Fit. I.t. R. L. Bateman having left to take a similar post at the Exeter Aero Club. Perpetual Motion Discovered at Shoreham '"PHE Municipal Airport buildings at Shoreham, in which the -*- South Coast flying Club is housed, adapt themselves nicely to the lighter sides of club existence. Last Saturday the Club held one of its dinner dances, theoretically to celebrate the completion of another year of flying, but (as Capt. Francis Haddock, who took the chair at dinner, explained), also to mark the latest achievement of the club's instructor and secretary—the ever effervescent C. L. Pashley. During the week he had actually reached his ten thousandth hour of flying—practically all instructional—and had also dealt (appropriately, we hope) with his thousandth pupil. Speaking, under heavy compulsion, " Pash " characteristically dismissed his achievement in a sentence which represented about one word for every thousand flying hours—or for every hundred pupils. THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE : The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, who is one of the C.A.G. Commissioners, takes delivery of his new two-seater Tipsy at Hanworth.
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