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APRIL 25, 1940 375 HERE and THERE R.A.F. Training in S. Africa THE British Government has acceptedthe offer of the Union of SouthAfrica to make available facilities there for the training of .Royal Air Force per-sonnel, who will receive their training with personnel of the Royal South AfricanAir Force. To make all tht arrangements with the Union Government regardingtechnical equipment and finances, a mis- sion, headed by Air Chief Marshal ShRobert Brooke-Popham, is leaving for South Africa. Sir Robert will also visitSouthern Rhodesia in connection with the training scheme which has beeninitiated there. Other members are : Sir James Stirling Ross, Gp. Capt. A. L.Paxton, Sqn. Ldr. E. F. Porter, and Mr. A. L. M. Gary. " Flight " photograph NO OTHER TIGER. Four members of the staff of the new flying school which theFrench Government is establishing in Indo-China. From left to right they are : M. Maurice Thoraval (chief pilot), Commandant-Aviateur Louis Castex (organiser ofthe school), M. Marcel Couratin (chief engineer), and M. Marcel Degand (assistant engineer). Capt. Adand's New Post HIS many friends at home and abroad will be interested tolearn that Capt. P. D. Acland has just taken over the post of Managing Director of Percival Aircraft Ltd., at Luton, Bed-fordshire. i; G.A.L. Directors IN recording the formation of Airtraining (Fai Oaks), Ltd.,in our issue of April n, we inadvertently stated that all the directors of the new company are directors of General Air-craft, Ltd. This is slightly inaccurate in that Mr. S. J. Noel- Brown is secretary, but not a director, of General Aircraft. Heis, however, a director of the new company, as stated. A Tufnol Loss VTEWS came to this office, just too late to be included in last-L^ week's issue, of the death, at the early age of 40, of Mr. E. W. Green, who has for some years been in charge of the de-velopment of Tufnol Bearings, Ellison Insulations, Ltd. Mr. Green served with the R.F.C. in Mesopotamia in the last war,and joined the drawing office staff of. George Ellison, Ltd., in 1920. B Tigers in Indo-ChinaY arrangement between the Allied Governments, TigerMoths are to be used for ab initio training at the civil flying school which France is establishing in Indo-China. Theorganisation of the project has been entrusted to Commandant- Aviateur Louis Castex, and the chief flying instructor will beM. Maurice Thoraval. The acceptance tests were conducted in England, and the principal ground engineers have passedthrough a course at the De Havilland factories. The Tiger Moths have extensive equipment of the R.A.F. type, includ-ing blind-flying instruments, navigation lighting, etc. Challenge Trophy Holders I HE College of Aeronautical Engineering announces that the •*• holder of the Mollison Trophy for 1940, held each year by t»e student who has sliown the highest standard of general emciency, is R, B. Wilkinson. This student entered the col-e ge with a Wakefield scholarship, has qualified for an Honours 1-Ih t>' and kas P^sed the Associate Fellowship Examination 01 the Royal Aeronautical Society. He is now employed in the Com e ExPerimental Department of the Bristol Aeroplane thfw *Jolder for I94° of the Olley trophy, held each year bye student showing the best results in the practical and com- has re °f aeronauticaJ engineering, is K. R. Da vies, whoFell quaT.fied for an Honours diploma and passed the Associate obta™° P exammat»on of the Royal Aeronautical Society,of T? n gT, rst Place **>• one subject. He is now on the staff °f Rolls-Royce, Ltd., at Derby Do Not Waste PaperT HE Government is to organise special collection schemes forwaste paper. Those comparatively few readers of Flight who do not habitually retain their copies are asked to savethem for the collectors. Autogiro Mail ServiceS INCE July, IQ39, Eastern Air Lines has beer, operating anair mail service between Camden Airport and the roof of the Philadelphia post office by Kellett autogiro. Five roundtrips on each of six days per week are done on this short route of six miles. Notice to AirmenN OTICE to Airmen, No. 98, of the Emergency Series, definesprohibited areas in Estonia, while No. 99 prohibits the flight to cr over India of all civil aircraft other than thoseoperating regular services or those registered in India, unless special permission is obtained from the Director of Civil Avia-tion in India. Flt-Lt. H. Bailey IT is with deep regret that we have to record the death in aflying accident recently of Fit. Lt. H. Bailey, test pilot of Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd. Fit. Lt. Bailey served in theR.N.A.S. in the last war. He afterwards attended Sheffield University, where he obtained an engineering degree. Subse-quently he got a short-service commission in the R.A.F., and joined the staff of the Blackburn flying school as instructor in1933. In 193G, after the death of Capt. A. M. Blake, he was appointed assistant test pilot at Brough. FURTHER RATIONING OF PAPER A Definite Order to Newsagents is Essential FURTHER drastic rationing of paper supplies by the Government 1 in consequence of the extension of the war to Scandinavia and partial cessation of imports, means that paper must be conserved in every possible way. One result of this latest restriction is that publishers are compelled to cease supplying journals to newsagents on sale or return. It is thus imperative for readers who wifh to avoid disappointment to request a regular copy of Flight, as news- agents in future will requisition from the publishers only those copies for which they have received a definite demand. Thus to ensure a regular copy of this journal, tell your newsagent, without delay, to reserve you a copy each week, or alternatively, for your convenience an order form appears in this issue which you are invited to fill up and hand to your agent. The order can be countermanded at any time in the event of change of address. Form appears on advertisement page 29.
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