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Aviation History
1942
1942 - 1554.PDF
FLIGHT JULY 23RD, 1942 A.T.C ACTIVITIES Cadets Get Acquainted with The R.A.F. /*N important part of the A.T.C. training, and one which /-\ the boys most enjoy, takes the form of visits to R.A.F. J. JL stations where many of them get into the air for the first time. Week-end and five-day visits are both arranged, the latter costing the cadet only is. gd. per day and often chosen by him as the finest way of spending his summer holiday. After some rirjhtrrn mrmtihrr nnrlrr local administration, the A.T.C. has grown tpy^uch size and significance that it "has now- been transferred^^ the Air Ministry, and its former Com mandant, Air^Brrq|£e. J. A. Chamier, has been appointed Inspector of tV (1) An L.A./C.W. shows the young visitors how to put on parachute harness and (2) demonstrates the reassuring ease with which the "brollie " opens. The parachute is the Irving pilot type and the hole in the centre, by allowing a stream of air to escape, keeps it steady during the descent. (3) Probably the most interesting item about an aircraft, to the average boy, is its engine, and here an R.A.F, " host " is giving them the gen on the 200 h.p. inverted in-line air-cooled Gipsy- Six engines of the D.H.86b. This machine, a development of the D.H.86a air-liner in wide use in the British Isles before the war, is now used both on communications and for certain phases of technical training in the R.A.F. (4) A group of cadets gather round the tail assembly of a D.H.86b while a member of the R.A.F. explains its construction and functioning. When this picture was taken the details and purpose of the trimming tab on the rudder were being explained.
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