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FLIGHT JANUARY 22ND, 1942 HERE AND THERE ROYALTY AT ROTOLS : Queen Mary recently visited a Rotol airscrew repair factory, and here she is seen with Mr. R. Stammers inspecting a typical example of their vital work—an airscrew, damaged in combat, which has been restored to new condition and is ready to go back into active service. ment, this combination of range and speed is distinctly good. The Lancer, powered by a supercharged 1,200 h.p. Pratt and Whitney engine, is a high- altitude aircraft, but no mention is made in the report of the actual height at which Capt. Philpott made the journey. To have covered the distance, as he did, in 4hr. 43mm., he must have used a big proportion of the available power, which is a testimony to the stamina of the air- cooled radial engine. Breaking Into Prison B ELIEVE it or not, Sergeant-Observer R. Bruce Petersen, of Toronto, bal ing out over England one dark night found himself, on contact with land, a prisoner of war. Petersen's descent was apparently ill- timed, for the 108-pound navigator wafted slowly to earth, to descent within the barbed wire confines of a prisoner-of- war camp. London "Bobby's" New Beat T WENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Leonard W. Thorne, G.M., ex-member of the Metropolitan Police, is now a cadet training to be an R.A.F. pilot at the South East Air Corps Centre, U.S.A. Leonard Thorne won the George Medal for gallantry during a London air raid, when he was on duty in Tottenham Court Road, and rescued a number of people who were trapped in demolished, burning buildings. He saved twenty lives that night. And Mother Joined Too ! A MOTHER whose husband is a chiei petty officer in the Royal Navy, whose son is in the Merchant Navy, and whose daughter is in the W.A.A.F.. is now herself in the W.A.A.F. She is serving as a cook in the airmen's and air women's mess at a headquarters of the R.A.F. Army Co-operation Command. Before she entered the Service, she had lived in a heavily bombed area and her home, and a business which she had bought and carried on there, was wrecked in one of the raids. Nights spent in an air-raid shelter were tedious. She wanted to do some active war work. So she followed the example of her daughter and joined up. Death of Mr. W. A. Oubridge I T is with regret that Flight has to announce the death, on January 2nd, of Mr. W. A. Oubridge, chairman and director of the British Piston Ring Co., Ltd., of Coventry, which he himself founded. Mr. Oubridge, who had been ill for some considerable time, was buried at Coventry. Pets in the R.A.F. N OBODY loves a pet more than an airman, and although Orders state that '' dogs and other live stock'' may not be kept on an airdrome '' except by the consent of the commanding oliicei fi, there are usually plenty of pets about. Which indicates that C.O.s have a soft spot for animals, too. The Group Captain commanding one bomber station, for example, has a tiny terrier which always accompanies him, and stands quietly beside his master on the edge of the flying field at every take off. A squadron leader at a northern station keeps a budgerigar in his room. Some times it is invited as a guest in the mess, where it sips beer from the rim of a tankard. It is a fine talker, but its language is not suitable for the best company—as the padre has sometimes remarked. DESERT RESCUE : Two Hurricane pilots of the S.A.A.F. snapfl»*ea.fter the one / in the helmet had landed in enemy territory and picked up hJfvounded corarade* forced to bale out. The rescuer had to<Kfisjterse approaching enemy with his gunfire rA^fore he coul^and.;
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