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mmm mmm • ' MARCH igrn, 1942 FLIGHT 201 //£££ AND THERE Royal Air Force Club T HE annual general meeting of the Royal Air Force Club, 128, Picca dilly, VV.i, will "be held on Wednesday, March 25th. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. Mr. R. N. Duke's New Post '"THE Secretary of State for Air, Sir ,^A, Archibald Sinclair, with the approval \ of the Prime Minister, has appointed Mr. Robert Norman Duke, C.B.. D.S.O., M.C., to be an additional Deputy Under- Secretary of State in the Air Ministry with effect from March 16th, 1942. Mr. Duke is Secretary of the Scottish Home Department and has been acting as Principal Officer in the Scottish Civil Defence Regional Office. W.A.A.F. Hairdressers THE W.A.A.F., at some stations, will in future have their own hair dressers. This new. "trade" has been estab lished to maintain the standard of smartness and hygiene in the Service, and to overcome the difficulty experi enced by airwomen serving on R.A.F. stations some distance from the nearest town or village in visiting a civilian hair dresser. "Malice in Wonderland" LITERARY skill is frequently "born' to blush unseen ''—or hide its efforts in the service magazine ! At all events, Flight has lately re ceived a copy of the Christmas number of The Woodpecker, the chirpy little "house organ" of the Port Elizabeth Air Station. Among a good deal of verbal fun— much of which will obviously mean little to anyone not resident on the said air station—there is a cleverly written burlesque pantomime entitled "Malice in Wonderland" (by Willy and John, whoever they may be!) which ought to be a riot of a show to stage if only because it brings down the (fire) curtain with the King, Prince, Princess and sundry Nubians engulfed in the foam from a chemical fire-extinguisher. Maybe this will give Nervo and Knox a new idea! Colour Prints "PHOSE who are interested in acquir- •*• ing reproductions of pictures depict ing British aircraft in action •will like to know that several examples of the work of Roy Nockolds, recognised as one of our foremost artists, are being reproduced in a series of colour prints by Frost and Reed, Ltd. These are being issued in three dif ferent states ranging in price from 23s. to £4 17s. 6d., and include a limited iwnber of signed artist's proofs, and a percentage of the proceeds from their sale will go to the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. Flight has received an example of one of these prints, "Eyes of the Convoy," depicting a Sunderland in a sea and sky setting, and both its artistic merit and quality of reproduction are excellent. New Portrait of the King A NEW photograph of The King, showing His Majesty in his R.A.F. uniform, has lately been taken and is being made available to Air Force sta tions. It is customary, and the natural wish of the officers, to have portraits of Their Majesties, as heads of the R.A.F. and .W.A.A.F., hung in station messes. The King is a Marshal of the Royal Air F'orce, and Air Commodore-in-Chief of the Auxiliary Air Force. He learned to fly in 1919 and since then has worn the R.A.F. wings. Het Majesty is Com- rnandant-in-Chief of the W.A.A.F. Boulton Paul's New Chairman MR. ROBERT GORDON SIMPSON, M.C., C.A., has been elected a director and Chairman of Boulton Paul Aircraft, Ltd. Mr. Simpson, who is on the boards of numerous Investment Trusts, is Chair man of Smethwick Drop Forgings, Ltd. He is a member of the committee which, under Sir William Beveridge, has been enquiring into the use of skilled men in the Services. " Engliski Aeroplanski" " T^NGLISKI Aeroplanski" means -*—' nothing, either in English or Russian, but it meant a lot to the tele phone operator in a village hear the Northern Russian front where the R.A.F. Wing was operating for some time. This operator was a Russian blonde named Anya. When first she heard English voices speaking into the 'phone, she was thrown into confusion. She knew no English. The British, with the exception of three Russian-speaking officers, knew no Russian. But R.A.F. lorry drivers, who got snowed up, or who drove into drifts in the darkness, had to find some way of communicating with their headquarters. Feeling that adding "ski" to any word made it sound Russian, they impro vised the phrase " Engliski Aeroplanski " when they picked'up a telephone; and soon that phrase meant to Anya that the speaker wished to communicate with the headquarters of No. 151 Wing, R.A.F. Safety in Curves T^XPERIMENTS with a new trans- -•—' parent plastic material produced by a Philadelphian physicist, Dr. Willard F. Bartoe, are reported to have shown that curved Sections do not shatter when pierced by bullets, although flat ones, subjected' to identical treatment, do shatter. Dr. Bartoe's firm was asked to pro duce a transparent plastic material for aircraft flying at 40,000ft. and above, and the tests were carried out with panels from one-half to three-quarters of an inch thick and under air pressure, simulating pressure-cockpit conditions. When flat, they shattered, but when bent into curved domes the bullets made clean holes of small diameter, some of which proved to be self-healing! Death of Mr. F. J. Selby WE regret to announce the death, at the age of 74, of Mr. F. J. Selby. C.B.E., M.A., who was for 14 years secretary of the National Physical Laboratory, and who retired from that office in 1932. Mr. Selby joined the staff of the Laboratory in 1903 and became its secre tary in 1918, and from 1909 until 1919 he was secretary of the Advisory Com mittee for Aeronautics. SOME WESTLAND TEST PILOTS : (Left to right) J. H. H. Hill, who is in charge of production testing ; H. J. Penrose, chief test pilot, and J. Ramsden, who assists with the flying of prototypes. It was the latter two pilots who co-operated in providing Flight with the Whirlwind pictures published on March 5th.
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