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—— mmmm ••••-•""" . www RSI FEBRUARY 26TH, 1942 FLIGHT 170 HERE AND THERE Kayser Ellison Appointments MR. ARCHIE LEIGH MORRISON, for some time London Manager of Kayser Ellison and Co., Ltd., of Shef field, and Mr. Joseph Pashley, chief of their research department, have now been made directors of the company. Mr. Howard Baron, A.C.A., A.C.I.S., has been appointed secretary in succes sion to Mr. Harry Lenton Rust. "Miles" Men in the Forces fTrllLLIPS & POWIS AIRCRAFT, -I LTD., are anxious to hear from iormer employees who left to join the Forces, so that they can add their names to their Comforts Fund list. This fund, to which all present em ployees subscribe by weekly deductions irom their wages, is for sending comforts to serving members of the firm and those who are prisoners of war, and they are anxious to make the list as complete as possible. Those who are not already on the list, therefore, should send their names, with rank, number and address, to the Honorary Secretary, Phillips & Powis Comforts Fund, Reading. Just Like Blackpool! A BEAUFORT was approaching Brest on a job when the pilot and navi gator saw a long line of riding lights stretching out into the sea for miles. Everyone was keyed-up—the Germans might open fire at any moment. The pilot jumped when the wireless operator, a lough, stolid, Yorkshire lad, called him up on the " inter-comm." '' Yes, yes, what is it ? " the pilot asked quiclfly—the "wireless op." must lave seen a night fighter, at least, to call him at such a time. "Have ye looked out o't window lately? " inquired the Yorkshire voice. " Yes, yes—come on, what have you seen? " replied the pilot. "Did ye notice all them lights—joost A- bloomin Blackpool! " r Invincible ! TJERE is an item from the Canadian -*--*- Airways, Ltd., journal, the monthly Honker. It reports that a Berlin mili tary spokesman is quoted by the corre spondent of the Stockholm fidningen as saying: "Complete German superiority in the East is decisively proved by the fact that the Russians are unable to prevent the (x-nnans from retreating." Salter Winchell, the famous American columnist, who expressed his country's Neutrality at the start of the war by say- !%'. "I'm neutral; I don't care who kilis Hitler," is also credited with yet another bon mot. inchell's toast to the Japanese Navy ^Bottoms Up! " And the same journal also quotes the nlm comedians, Abbott and Costello, as saving that U.S.A. has agreed to share ™ Pacific Ocean with the laps on a n'ty-fifty basis—the bottom" half for Japan. " The Flying Standard " M OTORISTS will remember a Coven try-built car of this name just before the war. Now it is to be bestowed upon a fighter aircraft in recognition of the gift of ^6,000 just received by the Ministry of Aircraft Production from the management, staff and employees of the Standard Motor Co. Appropriately enough, the original " Flying Standard '' was also powered by a liquid-cooled V-type engine. Try Your Skill THE second edition of a useful folder •*- entitled Aircraft Recognition Test has just been published (price 4d.) by Rolls House Publishing Co., Ltd., for the Air Training Corps Gazette, in which three-view drawings of 92 British, Ameri can, German and Italian machines, bv James Hay Stevens, provide good exer cise in the gentle art of spotting. All the drawings occupy one side of the sheet when it is opened out and, as they are only numbered and not placed in any particular order, the identifying of any particular one depends on recognis- ing its outline unaided by familiaritv with its position on the chart. On the other side of the sheet the drawings are indexed for quick reference. Mr. Hamilton Kerr's Appointment CAPTAIN H. H. BALFOUR, Under-Secretary of State for Air, has appointed Mr. Hamilton W. Kerr, M.P. for Oldham, to be his Parliamentary Private Secretary, in succession In Mr. \V. VV. Wakefield, who was recently appointed Director of the A.T.C. • Mr. Kerr, who is 39 years of age, worked on the Daily Telegiaph after leaving Oxford (where he was a running blue) and became Conservative M.P. for Oldham in T931. Two years later—at the age. Qf 30— he was made Private Secretary to Mr. Duff Cooper and held the position for five years. In Septem ber, 1939, Mr. Kerr joined the A.A.F., and now holds the rank of Fit. Lt. His father is Mr. Henry S. Kerr, of Long Island, New York •.•••'• . - .-•' :•?:. ' :- '*.-•. - Officers Go Back to School ONE of the big officers' schools ol the R.A.F. has just added a " re fresher" course to its activities. It is for officers up to the rank of flight lieutenant. • Although they include all branches of the R.A.F., these refresher courses are specially designed to benefit those officers of the administrative and special duties branch who did not pass through an officers' school on first appointment owing to the need to get on with the job. Papers Into 'Planes THIS copy of Flight may be made to help train air crews to &y! For when you are asked to add your news papers to Britain's salvage store, you are adding not only to the number of csur shell cases, but you'are also helping to supply a vital material used in coustnn t- ing a most up-to-date type of trainer aircraft for the R.A.F. The main struts—the skeleton of this machine—are made of compressed lami nated wood ; and layers of newspaper are inserted to enable the wooden parts— stronger, for their weight, than steel— to be divided easily. Paper helps to give the plane greater lightness and strength. So save up your old newspapers and journals—they are aircraft in the mak ing, an important raw material in our struggle for air supremacy. Safer in the Air THERE is a young Australian wing commander in charge of a Beau- fighter squadron in this country who has good reason to hold the view that he is safer in the air than on the ground. When he was a flight lieutenant in a Spitfire squadron during the Battle of Britain, so the story goes, he-was one day forced to bale out—and then the " fun " started. He was upside down when the brollie began to open and it wrapped itself round his feet; however, he kicked it free before he ran out of altitude and landed in a potato field, somewhat winded. But before he could get to his feet half TOP FLOOR OFFICE : This Lockheed Lodestar, specially built and equipped for President Vargas of Brazil, has a private office for the use of His Excellency during trips between important centres of the great South American Republic. A desk, swivel chair and davenport are installed and there is also a buffet for the use of himself and his personal staff.
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