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322 FLIGHT APRIL 2ND, 1942 HERE AND THERE Civil Air Patrol AN American Civil Air Patrol com posed of some 280,000 pilots, student pilots and ground personnel, to enlist for the duration of the war, has been established by -New York's famous mayor, F. H. LaGuardia, who is director of the " Office of Civil Defence." Tfee ranks will be composed of 90,000 already Housed pilots, the same number of student pilots (presumably to be in structed under the Civil Aeronautics Administration's civilian pilot training scheme) and some 100,000 technicians. The Patrol, which sounds very much like our own ill-fated Civil Air Guard of pre-war days, will have about 23,000 civil aircraft and 2,000 airports in the U.S.A. on which there are no military or scheduled aircraft operations. A sort of Civil Air Laguardia, in fact! A.T.C. 180,000 Strong T HE latest figures for the A.T.C. show that the Corps is now nearly 180,000 strong. This was announced by Mr. W. W. Wakefield, M.P., Director of the A.T.C., during an inspection of A.T.C. units. Mr. YVakefield stated that the figure was still increasing, despite the numbers passing into the Royal Air Force. Moreover, the training given to the youth of Britain in the A.T.C. was one of the most constructive things in a world where so much destruction was going on. The things cadets learnt about engines, radio, communications, calcula tions, and navigation would be of great value to them in their 'post-war life. Already, added the director, many cadets have found their A.T.C. training of prac tical value to them in their ordinary daily work. Student Engineers Dine ABOUT 100 students of the City and Guilds College attended the annual dinner of their Engineering Society last week, at which their president, Dr. A. P. M. Fleming, C.B.E., himself an old Guilds student, presided. This was the society's third wartime dinner held at Slater's, Kensington, and the hon. secretary, B. A. Jarrett, said that it marked the conclusion of another successful season during which student papers had largely been relied upon; these, by the way, included one on wind tunnels. Major G. C. Lowry, who proposed the toast of the Society, stressed the point that it would be up to the coming scientists and engineers to see that their knowledge was in future used to benefit mankind instead of being put to wrong ends by the industrial world as in the past, and he caused some amusement when he claimed that only about 10 per cent, of the human species possessed "well-ordered minds." Another Fund Record WITH a total of nearly £44,000 now reached, the R.A.F. Pilots and Crews Fund, launched by the Auc tioneers' and Estate Agents' Institute just over a year ago, has already passed the total achieved by the Institute's " Star and Garter Fund " of the 1914-18 war. In the last war the Star and Garter Fund raised the sum of £43,254. With this money the site of the Star and Garter Home for Disabled Sailors, Soldiers, and Airmen was bought, and over £14,000 was contributed towards its endowment. That fine total of £43,254 has just been passed by the Institute's R.A.F'. Pilots and Crews Fund. The arrival at Knole, Sevenoaks, of a cheque for £400, . being part of moneys raised by the East Anglian branch, brought the total re ceived at headquarters to £43,600. Lectures for Women Supervisors COURSES of lectures on the work of women supervisors are to be organ ised at technical colleges throughout the country by the Ministry of Labour and National Service-in conjunction with the Board of Education and the Scottish Education Department. These will be free, but only existing women supervisors and others who have1, had not less than six months' experience in industry will be accepted, and the establishment of a course in any par ticular locality will depend on there being sufficient local demand. The lectures, each of which will last about two hours, will be held outside working hours and will cover such sub jects as the general principles of work shop supervision, factory organisation, timekeeping and payment, and factory legislation, including special wartime measures. Employers are invited to put forward suitable women, and the names and addresses of women applying for the course should be sent to the local Labour Exchange. MAMMOTHS IN THE MAKING : A general view of the Douglas assembly shop at Santa Monjea, where t* big fouf _. troop transports are seen nearing completion. The type was originally intendedj for corrufcrcial use\ I
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