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1942 - 0567.PDF
MARCH 12TH, 1942 HERE A *33 Production With a Vengeance ACCORDING to Aero Digest, Northrop has orders for $34,00(5,000 worth of Vultee Vengeance dive-bombers for the R.A.F., and the first one recently left the production line. Recording its emergence from the factory, the statement is made that "eight months were required to tone up and prepare for production of the Wngcance." Indian Air Force THE decision to expand the Indian Air Force to ten squadrons from the present three is announced in a recent issue of the Civil and Military Gazette, published in Lahore. "There are twenty times the number of officers and seven times the number' of airmen in the I.A.F., as compared with those at the outbreak of war," says the report, '' antr these numbers are going up considerably." A school for technical training has been formed and its output is now said to be 600 men per annum. Holidays in 1942 RECENT announcements by the Government on holidays during the present year stipulate that in order to continue the national effort at full stretch, the customary holiday, so far as it does not exceed one week, should be taken, and there should be for most workers in the aircraft and other vital war industries a one-day break on Easter Monday, Whit Monday and August Bank Holiday, with two days at Christmas or the New Year. There should, however, be no cessation of work on Good Friday, and the Government expects that workers receiv ing the prescribed holidays will be regular in their attendance at work at other times and will not extend the holi day period or absent themselves from work at other times. Art in the Services ~*^WTORE than 2,000 exhibits, including •!•••*• drawings, paintings, sculpture and models, have been entered for the Forces' Art Exhibition, which opened in the National Portrait Gallery on Tuesday. That they are truly representative of the Allied Nations is shown by the fact that, in addition to Home Country entries, exhibits have also been received bom the Canadians, from the American Ambulance Unit, the Free French and from the forces of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway and Luxembourg. Many well-known artists are contribu ting, among them W. T. Wood, R.W.S., R.O.I., Charles Ffoulkes, C.B., O.B.E., Albert Perry, Col. J. J. H. Nation, Jean (ffcerle (France), Capt. Oktawican jastrzembski, and Fit. Lt. Horowicz (Poland). Canada has its own gallery in the exhibition, which has among its patrons the Can-dian High Commissioner, Mr. Vincent Massey, and General A. G. L. McNaughton, and a separate gallery is "A VERY GALLANT GENTLE MAN ": Lieut. Commander E. Esmonde, D.S.O., R.N., who led the six Swordfish against the German warships in Dover Straits and was posthumously awarded the V.C., is here seen in the uniform of Imperial Airways (forerunner of British Overseas Airways) whom he served from 1934 until he joined the Fleet Air Arm in May, 1939. He joined Imperial Airways after five years in the R.A.F., flying Atlantas and Hannibals in India and the Far East, and in 1938 he captained Empire flying boats. The official citation appears on page 243. the Forces in the London district re ceived by the Y.M.C.A. in its recent competition. Is There a "Spider Club"? CAN any reader of Flight supply in formation on the existence or other wise of "The Spider Club"—member ship open only to aircrews who have hit a balloon cable and got away with it? The Caterpillar Club for those who have saved their lives by " brollie," and the Late Arrivals Club for airmen who have managed to return to base on foot (emblem, a winged boot) are well known, but the Editor of Flight has received an enquiry from a potential member of the Spider Club and would like to pass on the name and address of the secretary, if any. A sergeant pilot stationed in the north recently collided with a balloon cable, and after what he modestly describes as "plain luck," he managed to pull off a dead-stick landing with yards of cable tangled round the airscrew, he and his gunner being unhurt although the air craft was decidedly bent in several places. He says he has been told there is in existence an organisation known as the Spider Club, for just such lucky people as himself and his gunner, and, if there is, he wants to get into touch with its secretary. Brush Board Changes SEVERAL changes have taken place in the board of The Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., at Loughborough, and of subsidiary companies. Mr. T. B. Keep, M.I.Mech.E., has retired from the board, but is remaining on the boards of two subsidiary com panies, namely, Brush Coachwork, Ltd., and Petters, Ltd. Mr. Alan P. Good, deputy chairman of the parent company, has been appointed managing director in succession to Mr. Keep,, and Mr. M. A. Fiennes has joined the board as an executive director. Mr. W. M. Good, A.C.A., has been appointed managing director of Brush Coachwork, Ltd. also given over to some 500 entries from DESERT HUN-STRAFER : A Douglas Boston III in flight over the Libyan desert. This is one showing the twin guns for dj ^ha'South African Air Force fhe/nrst pictures of the Boston
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