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114 FLIGHT JULY 29TH, 1943 E AN Extension of Airgraph Service THE Postmaster-General has an-nounced that airgraph letters are now being accepted for addresses in St. Pierre and Miquelon. The charge for airgraph letters ad- dressed to personnel of the Forces and the Merchant Navy is 3d., and for those addressed to civilians 8d. Expert Schoolboy Spotter IVOK BOURNE, a junior member ofSt. Paul's Spotters' Club, Worcester, is now training other spotters. This 13- year old schoolboy accurately recognised 123 out of 125 British, German and Italian aircraft and is the youngest boy in the country to hold a first-class plane- spotter's certificate. Kill That Falcon THE Order making legal the taking ordestruction of peregrine falcons or their eggs by approved authorised persons is now extended in its operation to cover Lundy Island and the Welsh counties of Brecknock, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Flint, Glamorgan, Merioneth, Montgomery, and Radnor. The object of the Order is to prevent, as far as possible, the severe losses caused by peregrine falcons to homing pigeons employed by the R.A.F. R.Ae.C. Staff Holiday IN order to give the staff a short holi-day, the Royal Aero Club Committee has decided to close the club, with the exception of the bedrooms, for nine days from Saturday, July 31st, to Sunday, August 8th, 1943, both days inclusive. Breakfast will be served to those members sleeping in the club, but no ether meals and no drinks will be served during the period of closing. Full facili- ties will be available again on Monday, August 9th. New Argentine Trainer THE Industria Metalurgica y PlasticaArgentina, more briefly known as I.M.P.A., is producing a new trainer, the Impa RR-11. A low-wing, two-seater monoplane, it is powered by a 65 h.p. flat-four Lycom- ing engine which gives it a top speed of 100 m.p.h. As it cruises at 95 m.p.h., its duration of five hours provides an operational range of 475 miles. * • R.N.ZA.F. Air Chief AIR COMMODORE ISITT is te be-come Chief of Air Staff and Air Officer Commanding the Royal New Zealand Air Forces, with the temporary rank of Air Vice-Marshal, and thereby becomes the first New Zealander to hold the post. He is to succeed Air Vice-Maishal R. V. Goddard, who will return to the Royal Air Force after the term for which he was seconded to New Zealand has ex- pired . Fighter-Dive-Bomber THE fitting of dive brakes to theMustang, so that it can combine the advantages of dive bombing with the ability of a fighter to take care of itself, was recently reported to have been tried out for the first time in action over Sicily, apparently with good results. This variation of the Mustang, known as the A-36 in the U.S.A.A.F., has four hydraulically-operated dive brakes, two below and two above each wing, and its normal diving ppeed with them in opera- tion is reported to be 450 m.p.h. One R.A.F. 'LIBERTY BOAT " : A lorry of the R.A.F. Regiment going as^iSre from a landing craft during a night invasion exercise attrComblnetf Op»ratiofis Command Training Centre. The familiar naval phrase has a special application frow^tha*: the liberation of enslaved Europe is beginning. bomb rack is fitted to each wing, and these can be used for carrying auxiliary fuel tanks, instead of bombs, when long fighter range is required. The A-36 has the Allison engine and mounts four 0.5m. machine guns, two synchronised to fire through the airscrew disc and two in the wings. Its dive- bombing equipment is said to add less than 200 lb. to the normal gross, weight. Mustangs are also reported now to be carrying 20 mm. cannon. Parachute Record A 20,000 ft. delayed parachute drop,which is believed to constitute a world's record, has been made inadver- tently by a young R.A.F. pilot, Francis Brown, of Canterbury, New Zealand. Whilst flying through a monsoon storm to the Burma front, he was thrown against the controls and either fell out, t or baled out instinctively. J On regaining consciousness he found LP had fallen 20,000 ft. with unopened para- chute and was then about 3,000 it. up He pulled the ripcord of his parachute and landed safely on a small island, where the villagers after giving him refreshment took him to hospital. It was discovered that Brown's chief injury was burst bloodvessels behind thf eyes. Fruitful "DEACHES ticketed at several shillings -L apiece in some shops are being abso- lutely given away compared with the prices fetched by other fruit during a Wings for Victory week held recently at an A.F.U. in the West Midlands. Four bananas raised ^620 and fotp',^ lemons went for £500. Other luxuries auctioned in the officers' mess during a dance included a bottle of whiskey, which fetched ^500, and a tame goose, which added no less than ^785 to national savings. Altogether this A.F.U. raised a total of ,£6,569 during the week. Good show ! More Power to 'Em! SOME impressive figures about the AirTraining Plan were disclosed by Air Minister Power in his annual report on the R.C.A.F. beiore the Canadian Hotfse of Commons at Ottawa. Using more than 10,000 aircraft, it flies an average of 2,006,626 miles per day and costs about $40,000,000 per month. The number of schools has in- creased from the 74 originally planned to 154, and well over 50,000 aircrews of all nationalities have been passed out, the monthly ou£ptfj' rate being still on the increase.,..-« er also mentioned that there ara*ome 40,000 R.C.A.F. personnel serv- japfg outside Canada, and that for every Canadian serving in more than thirty R.C.A.F. squadrons there are eleven serving with the R.A.F. -<-"£ Incidentally, he confirmed that the proposal to change the name of the "British Commonwealth Joint Air Training Plan" to that of. " Combined Training * Organisation" has been dropped. 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