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1943
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596 FLIGHT JUNE IOTH, 1943 All join through the Volunteer Reserve, and there is no point in marking on his uniform the fact that each one has followed the inevitable course. It is also relevant that there is a distinction between the effect produced by such a badge at the outbreak of war and in the fourth year of war. When war is declared and Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve forces are embodied, the badges A. and V.R. proclaim to all that the wearer"is not a regular, and therefore almost inevitably in some way or other less efficient than a regular. Part-time men cannot be expected to be so efficient as whole-time men. After three years of war, however, when the majority of the Service consists of civilians in uniform, serving only for the duration, it is a distinction to have held a commission or a warrant dating from before the war. The A. badge of the Auxiliary officers shows that they had trained in time of peace to serve their country, and in our opinion those Volunteer Reserve officers who were also commissioned before September, 1939, ought to be allowed to wear a badge which likewise shows their record of service. A Very Small MouseT HAT the HOLISM of Commons means business when it talks of civil aviation was brought out very for- cibly in the full-dress debate on June 1st, which is reported elsewhere in this issue. There was complete agreement that this country must make a start at once if the Empire is not to be left hopelessly behind after the war. There was virtual unanimity that civil aviation should be taken away from the control of the Air Ministry, but Members appeared a little vague as to who should take over. There was anxiety over the absence of young men with flying experience on the board of CONTENTS The Outlook - - - - War in the Air - - - , - Air Sea Rescue - - - - Here and There #- The Dive Bomber - Behind the Lines - Aircraft Characteristics - Debate on Civil Aviation - The Birthday Honours ... Post-war Transport Aircraft Correspondence - Service Aviation - - - 595 597 599 600 601 606 606, a & b 607 610 612 617 618 B.O.A.C. (Mr. d'Erlanger is the sole male representative at present). And there was an insistent demand for an Empire air conference. The Government mountains, as represented by Mr. Attlee and Sir Archibald Sinclair, laboured mightily— and produced a small mouse in the form of a statement that the aircraft industry has been given orders for the design and construction of four prototypes. A small beginning in all conscience, but still a beginning. It was, perhaps, as much as we could hope for at present. For the rest, the Government has no intention of separating civil aviation from the Air Ministry during the war. It is in consultation with the Dominions about Empire avia- tion, and there are still vacancies on the board of B.O.A.C., which it is hoped to fill with men of flying experience. Those were the only concrete results of the Great Debate. AN UNFAMILIAR PLAN FORM. In spite of its clipped wings, the Spitfire V does not appear to have suffered in its handling characteristics. The practice, now fairly general, of making the wing tips as detachable units facilitates such changes.
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