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1939
1939-1- - 0535.PDF
AUGUST 17- 1939 jMm$ 161 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Official Announcements : Fleet Air Arm News : Military Aviation Abroad Albacore Data THE Fairey Albacore, first pictures of which appeared in Flight last week, is described by its manufacturers as a three-seater, dive-bomber, reconnaissance-torpedo-carrier biplane. As a shipplane with wheel undercarriage it has the following dimensions: Span, 50ft.; length, 39ft. ioin.; height, 14ft. 2Hn., while as a seaplane the length is increased to 42ft. 5iin. and the height to 15ft. 3iin. It will be gathered from a comparison of the photograph appearing on this page and those published last week that the shape of the cowling has been altered and that there are certain other detail refinements. Flaps are fitted on the bottom wing, though in view of the fact that the machine is a biplane with fixed undercarriage it should not be necessary to use such devices to limit the speed in a bombing dive. The prototype illustrated last week was fitted with a Kotol airscrew whereas the machine shown above has a De Havilland constant-speed type. Metal monocoque construction is used for the fuselage but the wings are fabric-covered. Flying Accidents THE Air Ministry regrets to announce the following flying acci dents : — P/0. Peter Phillips lost his life and P/O. John Frederick Petti- grew was seriously injured as the result of an accident which occurred at Goring-on-Thames on August 4 to a Royal Air Force aircraft. P/0. Phillips was the pilot of the aircraft and P/O. Pettigrew the only other occupant. Sgt. Harry Donald Perry Farrow, A/Sgt. Alfred John Williams Sargeant and A/C.2 Leslie Phillips and a woman civilian, lost their lives as the result of an accident which occurred on August 7 at Beachy Head to an aircraft of No. 107 Squadron. Sgt. Farrow was the pilot, and A/Sgt. Sergeant and A/C.2 Phillips were the other members of the crew. Sgt. Ronald Jefferies Williams lost his life as the result of an accident which occurred near Nottingham on August 6 to an air craft of 103 Squadron. Sqn. Ldr. John Coverdale, the pilot of the aircraft, and A/C.2 Peter Ivo Bligh, the other member of the crew, were not injured. Sgt. Leonard Clune Steed and A/C.i William Halliburton Scott lost their lives and A/C.i Alfred Albert Shaw was seriously injured in an accident which occurred at Aboukir, Egypt, on August 8, to an aircraft of No. 203 Squadron. The other occupants of the air craft, Sqn. Ldr. James Rowland Scarlett-Streatfield, P/O. Peter Roland Mathews Williams, Cpl. Philip Ingrey, Cpl. John Riddell Smith, A/C.i William Nixon Arrowsmith and A/C.i William Hether- ington Ard were slightly injured. A/C.i Alfred Albert Shaw died in the Ras El Tin Military Hos pital, Alexandria, on August 10 as the result of injuries received in the accident. Fit- Sgt. Edward James Bruce Russell Gillespie, Sgt. David John Wood, A/C.i Philip Henry Cook and A/C.i Thomas William Clark- son lost their lives and A/C.i William McGlen Stewart Harkness was slightly injured in an accident which occurred at Linton-on- Ouse on August 8, to an aircraft of No. 58 Squadron. Fit. Sgt. Gillespie was the pilot of the aircraft and Sgt. Wood and A/Cs. Cook, Clarkson and Harkness were the other members of the crew. Wing Cdr. Burton Ankers, Cpl. Robert Samuel Gilbert and A/C.i Arthur Reginald Harris, lost their lives as the result of an acci- t-M wllicn occurred at Kutumba, India, on August 0 to an aircraft of No. 39 Squadron. Wing Cdr. Ankers was the pilot of the air craft and Cpl. Gilbert and A/C.i Harris were members of the crew. '«*« occupants of the aircraft, A/C.2 Richard Wallace Bloss vu ^' <"' ^' Tapper, escaped bv parachute. With reference to the disappearance on August 9 of an aircraft of wo. 149 Squadron, the Air Ministry announces with regret that, as extensive searches have failed to find the aircraft and the occupants, "must now be accepted that the following personnel lost their lives on that date. F/0 Thomas Adam Dariing, p/O. Frank Edward FOR F.A.A. RE-EQUIPMENT : The Fairey Albacore (Bristol Taurus) some notes on which appear below, showing the flaps depressed. Board, A/Sgt. Arthur Linkley, A/C.i Reginald Charles Barr Collins, A/C.i James William Sadler. F/O. "Darling and P/O. Board were the first and second pilots of the aircraft and A/Sgt. Linkley, A/C.i Collins and A/C.2 Sadler were the other members of the crew. P/O. Harold Stewart Olding (flying solo) lost his life in an acci dent which occurred on August 11 at Tatsfield, Surrey, to an aircraft of No. 32 Squadron. F/O. Arthur Robin Buchanan-Wollaston lost his life in an accident which occurred on August 11 at Tatsfield, Surrey, to an aircraft of No. 32 Squadron. F/O. William Kinane and Sgt. Peter Aitken Allan lost their lives, and A/C.i Ivor Roberts was seriously injured as the result of an accident which occurred at Carlton, near Bedford, on August 11, to an aircraft of No. 218 Squadron. F/O. Kinane was the pilot of the aircraft and Sgt. Allan and A/C. Roberts were the other members of the crew. Royal Air Force Qazette Air Ministry. August 8 Royal Air Force General Duties Branch The following are granted short-service commissions as Acting Pilot Officers on probation for six years on the active list on the July 22.—M. T. H. Adams, J. F. W. Allen, B. G. Aston. G. A. Atkinson, G. M. Bailey, R. C. W. Barnes, R. P. Baxter, G. H. H. Coates, E. F. V. Copsey, C. S. Courtney-Clarke, W. O. Cramer, D. F. Davies, N. Davson, T. Dawson, S S. Duff, J. M. Ennis, C. D. Frost. C. W. Handley, J. A. Heath-Brown, A. J. Hereford, L. J. Huggett, D. J. Isted, P. F. Kennard-Davis, I. H. Kingwell. N. L. Letten, P. W. Lovell, R. C. Miller, T. D. Misselbrook, E. S. S. Nash, A. C. O'Hara, V. Parker, E. G. Pett, H. A. R. Prowse, B. Raises, R. E. Ransome, E. B. Rendall, E. S. Roberts, L. D. Ryan, M. A. Sims, B. Smith, D. D. Snooke, A. J. Stevens, A. Takideli, R. P. Wigley-Jones, H. D. Willis, J. Winter. C. R. Young. July 24.—J. E. Lowe. July 28.—J. G. K. Long. The following are granted short-service commissions as Acting Pilot Officers on probation for four years on the active list (July 22):—H. C. M. Bamber, W. G. C. Edmonds, R. A. Greenhili, J. F. Percival, A. F. B. Ramsay, R. R. Sandford. The following Acting Pilot Officers on probation are confirmed in their appointments and graded as Pilot Officers on the dates stated:—May 13.—M. C. Kinder. June 27.—A. R. T. Barnes, R. F. Helm, R. Lane, P. C. Lindsey, C. W. McNeill, P. II. Preston, M. Radcliffe, T. G. Rhodes, J. C. Smitheram, V. G. D. Spiller. The following Acting Pilot Officers on probation are graded as Pilot Officers on probation (June 27):—D. O. M. Browne, H. D. Dawlish, F. E. G. Rashleigh, A. J. Smith, R. V. Whitehead. P. V. Lockett. Fit. Lt. S. G. Birch is promoted to the rank ot Squadron Leader (August r). The following Flying Officers are promoted to the rank of Flight Lieutenant on the dates stated:—April 14.—F. J. O. Lasbrey. July 13.—F. C. Hopcroft, D.F.C. August 1 (seniority November 1, 1938) —N. M. Bavliss (Acting Flight Lieutenant). The following Pilot Officers are promoted to the rank ot Flying Officer on the dates stated:—April 18.--B Brooke. June 16.—J. B. Garland. June 21.—P. L. Burke. H. M. Selwyn, G. Packe. July 12. —J. H. Williams, A. M. Lvall. July 21.—W. D. Corr, A. R. Holmes, D. D. McPetrie, L. P. Cat'tell (Acting Flight Lieutenant), A. S. Mirvlees, L. R. Cohen. Air Comdre. A. A. Walser, M.C., D.F.C., is granted the acting rank of Air Vice-Marshal (unpaid) (August 1); Group Capt. K. C. Buss, O.B.E., is granted the acting rank of Air Commodore (unpaid) The following are granted the acting rank of Flight Lieutenant on the dates stated:— „„ « n> Flying Officers.—January 16—P. C. Pinkham. March 2 —A D. Jackson. April 11.—J. H. Wedgwood. Pilot Officer—G. W. Slee (March 2).
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