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Aviation History
1945
1945 - 0112.PDF
6o FLIGH\\ 'j/[ UARV l8TH, 1945 Out and In '"PHE first call-up notices were sent last•*• month to some of the 4,200 R.C.A.F. trainees previously releasedfrom the Air Force. The men were given the choice of voluntarily transferring tothe Army or awaiting their call. A.T.C. Gliding ProgressM ORE than 250,000 glider launch*have now been made at A.T.C . gliding schools, of wTrich there are nowmore than 80 in Great Britain ami Northern Ireland. The total number ofsuch schools is expected to reach the century during the next 12 months. Built and Bought Them. T^MPLOYEES of the parent factory-*—' and immediate dispersals of the Bristol Aeroplane Co. have just passedthe £1,000,000 mark in their War Sav- ings drive—in other words, they maypride themselves that they have paid out of their pockets for an appreciablenumber of the Beaufighters, Hercules engines, and other products, which theyhave been building. New Folland DesignerF OLLAND AIRCRAFT, Ltd., an-nounce that Mr. Stanley H. Evans has been appointed chief designer. Mr.Evans has had wide experience both in AIR COMDRE. W. S. CHURCHILL : The Prime Minister, who is Hon. Air Comdre.of No. 615 Sqn. (County of Surrey), A.A.F., with Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, during his recent visit to theBelgian front. this country and in America, which willbe backed up by that of Mr. H. E. Preston, chief engineer and technicaldirector, and Mr. H. P. Folland, man- aging director and consultant to thedesign department. To Lay Golden Egglets! CIVIL versions of the Grumman J4F-2Gosling amphibian are now being built, by permission of the War Produc-tion Board and the U.S. Navy, for Latin- American business firms whose repre-sentatives want their own air transport. The present order is for 25 of them. The Gosling began life before the waras a very attractive four/five-seater amphibian suitable for the wealthier typeof private owner or the air-taxi operator. It is powered by two 200 h.p. invertedair-cooled in-line six-cylinder Ranger engines, truises at 150 m.p.h., and wascalled the Widgeon. Its pre-war price was $25,000. To Look After Colonials THE first coloured West Indian to beawarded the D.S.O., Fit. Lt. P. L. U. Cross, D.S.O., D.F.C., of Trini-dad, has been attached to the Colonial Office for duties in connection with thewelfare of Colonials in the R.A.F., and will visit R.A.F. stations at which thereare Colonial airmen. The great majority of the severalthousands of Colonials serving with the R.A.F. are from the West Indies. In Washington PASSENGER COMFORT : Priority passengers carried between Britain andby B.O.A.C. Mosquitoes travel in the bomb-bay, which is padded to-prtvide some degree of comfort. He can talk to the pilot via the inter-corn. an*^ior his peace of / mind 1) is strapped in. AIR MARSHAL DOUGLAS COLYERwent to Washington recently to take up his appointment as head of theR.A.F. Delegation and as R.A.F. mem- ber of the British Joint Staff Mission insuccession to Air Marshal Sir William Welsh. • Retired from R.A.F. AIR MARSHAL SIR WILLIAM L.WELSH has retired at his own re- quest. Sir William, who in 1943 was ap-pointed head of the R.A.F. delegation to Washington, recently went to Swedenin his capacity of European Regional Director of the B.O.A.C. to inspect airfacilities. It was also announced that Air Vice-MArshal Sir John Baldwin, former Com- inander of the Third Tactical Air Forcen the Burma Front, reverts to the re- tirfcdlist with the rank of Air Marshal.Capt. F. C. Halahan resumes ."the rar\ of Air Vice-Marshal on revert-
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