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1945
1945 - 0062.PDF
JANUARY IITH, 1943 THE New Air Vice-Marshal.A IR COMDRE. C. B. COOKE, C.B.E.,has been promoted Air Vice-Marshal. He is serving in the Technical Branch ofthe K.A.F. and received his C.B.E. in 1941. Barracuda Trainers THE Fairey Barracuda, reports theS.A.A.F. journal. Wings, is among a number of modern types now beingused at a Cape naval air station in the training of air crews for service againstthe Japanese. Coming of Age THE British Aviation Insurance Co.,Ltd., celebrated its 21st birthday on New Year's Day this year. Capt.Lamplugh reminds us that it is by far the oldest office in the world to havebeen continuously engaged in covering aviation risks CentenariansS EVERAL aircraft in the AustralianLancaster squadrons operating with R.A.F. Bomber Command began theNew Year with more than 100 opera- tional flights behind them, the top-scoreramong them having 118 sorties to its credit. All Their Aircraft Return A NEW ZEALAND Spitfire squadronof the 2nd T.A.F. now serving in the Netherlands has the enviable recordof not having lost a single aircraft to the enemy throughout the past year., Their chief job is low-level close-sup- FOR FAST WORKERS : This sketch of the ".amily" jet-plane of the futurerecently appeared in the Mechanix Illustrated Magazine, which says that the type is now on the drawing board. Pressure cabin, plastic windows and a 2,000miles range are features mentioned, while on some models control surfaces will be replaced by directional' jets. To judge by the inset (showing rear entrance)the plane seems to face a rathe* threatening future. port worlf, but before D-Day they wereengaged in cross-Channel sweeps and bomber escort missions. Dutch Burgomaster Thanks Airmen THE thanks of Dutch citizens toBritish airmen for the Christmas parties they arranged for the localchildren are expressed in a letter written to Air Marshal Coningham, A.O.C.-in-C,2nd T.A.F., by the burgomaster of a Dutch town. Models are Not Toys I WANT first to say a word to theignorant," observed Lord Brabazon when opening the National Exhibition ofModel Aircraft at Dorland House, Regent Street, last week, " Models are nottoys." The exhibition, which consists of some500 models—solid scale, flying, and INSIDE IN FORMATION : British Naval pilots being trained :n theroom at Jacksonville, Florida, for service in the Pacific and Hundreds of Fleet Air Arm pilots are being traside-by-side with U.S. cadets.theatres of war. flying-scale models—covers almost everyimaginable type. Sizes range from spans of a few inches to more than 10ft., someof the larger ones being powered by petrol engines. Saying that there were still plenty ofdiscoveries to be made in the field of aviation, Lord Brabazon remarked thatwe did not yet know if the aircraft of the future would be pulled or pushedthrough the air, whether it would fly tail first, be all wing or all fuselage, so therewas plenty of experimental scope for model builders. The rules of their com-petitions, he urged, should lead in some definite direction.The exhibition closes on Saturday. A Veteran Honoured WE were delighted to see among theNew Year Honours, the name of Fit. Lt. C. L. Pashley, who received theA.F.C. in recognition of his long ser- vices to British aviation. Cecil Pashley, who went out to South-ern Rhodesia early in 1941 when Empire air training was being built upand is still there .doing E.F.T.S. instruc- tion, has been flying regularly since 1908and is now 53 years of age. If is R.Ae.C. certificate is No. 106.He and his brother ran one of the first civil flying schools in the country atShoreham well before the last war, and during that war he served as an instruc-tor and on the Admiralty Testers' Regis- ter. In 1939 he was the guest of honour ata dinner in Brighton given to celebrate his 10,000 hr. flying time, and* histotal to-day is nearly 14,000 hr. Few instructors can have taught morepeople /to fly .than has Cecil Pashley, and We congratulate him on his well-desgtVed decoration. The Latest IXCE th\ recent occasion when anAussie Tyrohoon pilot of 2nd T.A.F. 'landed at his\idvanced base with wet'"Belgian soil, thrown up by his own cannon shells cfuring an attack on Ger-
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