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1944
1944 - 2103.PDF
OCTOBER IZTH, 1944 FLIGHT Airborne Life 401 L'feboats in which ditched airmen can sail long drstances in fair comfort can now be dropped by parachute." The British type carried beneath a Warwick (top left) is 27ft. long and has two engines and sails (above) .jfeesides rocket life-lines (bottom left), automatically fired onfc&uching tlje water. It U.S. counterpart is shown (bottorn''rfeht)\sl)ingifenfath j^B-iJ NEW HAWKER SIDDELEY DIRECTORS THEIR friends in the British aircraft industry, and they must be almost innumerable, will learn with great satis faction of the election of Mr. H. Burroughes, F.R.Ae.S., and Mr. R. H. Dobson, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., to the board of directors of Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Co., Ltd. The appointments will be generally welcomed in the industry and will cause no sur prise, for it has for very many years been the established policy of the Hawker Siddeley Group to augment.their execu tive from within. ,, . , Both the new H. S. directors are "old-timers in the British aircraft industry. Mr. Hugh Burroughes was a director of the Gloster Aircraft Co before it was taken into the Hawker Siddelev group and is a director of seveial other firms. Mr. Dobson (he answers readily to the affectionate diminutive " Dobbie") has been with A, V. Roe, of which firm he is now managing director, from early days. He got his foot on the first rung of the ladder of success by certain acrobatic manoeuvres as movable ballast in an aircraft, the e.g. of which »vas found hiding in an unexpected place, and he has climbed the ladder ever since; not, however, as Sir Frank Spriggs said on a certain occasion, "wrong by wrong." BOMBER COMMAND'S FUND FOR FRENCH CHILDREN MEN and women of Bomber Command plan to raise 2.000,000 francs for French children who have suffered through our bombing of France and as a tribute to those French people who risked their lives to help escaping British airmen. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris Chief of Bomber Command, has made an appeal for voluntary subscriptions which art- restricted to a shilling per head, but additional sums can be given by individual stations as funds permit. In a letter addressed to all ranks; Air Marshal Harris writes: " An inescapable consequence al war is that we have at times had to inflict injury on innocent people in France." He sug gested that the sum obtained be forwarded to General De Gaulle
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