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1939
1939 - 2001.PDF
/ FLIGHT, June 29, 1939. THE FIRST W I R R AWAY : Test flights are now in progress on the first Wirraway fighter bomber built under licence from North American Avia tion, Inc., by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corpora tion at Fisher men's Bend, Australia. Tests are being con ducted by Fit. Lt. Boss-Walker, who is seen on the left. Another Post of Inspector Qeneral IT has been decided to create an additional post of Inspector General of the Royal Air Force, with effect from July 1, 1939- Since Sir Edward Ellington was appointed Inspector General in 1937 three new Commands have been created at home and large increases have been made in the number of Royal Air Force estab lishments, particularly on the training side. The second Inspector General, who will report direct to the Air Council, will concentrate chiefly on the training and maintenance units. Aii Marshal Sir Charles Burnett, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., has been selected to fill the new post, for which he is particularly well qualified. After distinguished service in the Royal Flying Corps throughout the War, and subsequently in the Middle East, Sir Charles Burnett was Commandant of the Central Flying School from 1927 to 1929. He oecame Deputy Chief of the Air Staff in 1931, and subsequentlv was Air Officer Commanding in Iraq until the end ot 1934. Since that date he has, first as Air Officer Command ing, Inland Area, and subsequently as Air Officer Commanding-in- Chief, Training Command, been in charge of the training establish ments throughout the country. New A.O.C. in C, Training Command A IR MARSHAL SIR ARTHUR LONGMORE, K.C.B., D.S.O., 1!i will succeed Sir Charles Burnett as Air Officer Commanding- in-Chief, Training Command. Sir Arthur Longmore was one of the first Naval officers selected for training with the Naval wing ol the Royal Flying Corps and had distinguished service with the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Air Service throughout the War. Since the War Sir Arthur Longmore 'has had considerable experience in command of training units, as he was Commandant of the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell from 1929 to 1933, when he became Air Officer Commanding, Inland Area. He was Commandant ol the Imperial Defence College from 1936 until the beginning of 1939, when he was appointed a member of the Air Ministry Mission to Australia and New Zealand. Assistant Chapiains'in'Chief THE Air Ministry announces the following appointments to fill two new posts of Assistant Chaplain-in-Chief under the Chaplain-in-Chief, Royal Air Force: — To be Assistant Chaplain-in-Chief at Home—the Revd. Maurice Henry Edwards, O.B.E., B.A. To be Assistant Chaplain-in-C.hief for Overseas Commands (except SERVICE Royal Air Force and Official Announcements : Fleet Air Arm News : Military Aviation Abroad India am) the Far East)—the Reverend Harold Thomas, B.A. The Assistant Chaplain-in-Chief at Home will be stationed at Headquarters, Fighter Command, and the Assistant Chaplain-in- Chief for Overseas will be stationed at Headquarters, Royal Air Force, Middle East Cain; . S. of S. Opens New Town Centre SPEAKING at the opening of the new Town Centre of the Royal Air Force Volunt-er Reserve at IOI, Grosvenor Road, London, S.W.i, Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, said that the R.A.F.V.R. had had a greai success in the London area. No. 1 Town Centre, he said, is already full and 1,270 pilots are under training there The new Centre, No. 2 has been opened for the training of air crews Four additional training establishments for crews will be opened in London during the coming year. No. 2 Centre will accommodate about 600 trainees; 400 of these are already in training and then* have been many applicants from whom to draw the balance of 200. DUTCH PROTO TYPE : The Fokker D.23 single-seater twin-engined fighter (inverted vee-twelve air - cooled Walter Sagiltas) photo graphed shortly after its first flight. This machine was exhibited at the last Paris Salon and may be regarded as the prototype of aircraft with two Roils- Royce Merlins or Daimler Benz D.B. 601s. It is designed for one shell - gun and two large-bore machine guns firing explosive bullets.
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