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FLIGHT FEBRUARY 22ND, 1945 ENDEAVOUR 1945 and each is provided with service fittings similar to those described for the for- ward stateroom. The colour scheme is pale blue for the leather-covered walls, with a darker blue carpet and curtains. A point which has apparently been over- looked is that the berths are parallel to the floor, and when the aircraft is flying normally they will be in- clined, head down, at about 7 deg. to the horizontal. Adjoining the Royal stateroom aft is a private toilet, incorporating a stain- less-steel lavatory basin to port with cupboards under, and a special closet similar to those fitted forward. A folding table is hinged to the after door so that it can, if necessary, act as an occasional dressing table, and a wardrobe is recessed into the starboard side of the after bulkhead. Rearward, the fuselage is standard and comprises a stowage compartment for luggage, dinghy and portable oxygen bottles, and, in the extreme tail, the compart- ment housing the D.R. master compass, a crate of the main oxygen supply bottles, the de-icing fluid reservoir, and stowages for ground equipment. Long-range Tanks For the flight out to Australia Endeavour is having her entrance hall almost completely filled by a 624- gallon fuel tank which, in addition to the normal tankage, should allow the journey to be made in about three hops. Endeavour's crew are all members of the Royal Australian Air Force, and none is more than 30 years In the galley which is forward of the main saloon. The pipes and cocks in the . foregiound are connected to the emergency long- range fuel system. A corner of the forward stateroom. The upper bed hinges down and is shown (partially stripped) in the day position. A plug for radio is by the wall lamp. of age. The captain is Wing Cdr. D. R. Donaldson, of Brighton, Victoria, who is 30, and enlisted in the R.A.A.F. in September, 1940. He was trained in Australia, and came to this country in May, 1941. In addition to having been at one time a staff instructor on Wellington Ills over here, was also CO. of an Australian Lancaster squadron of Bomber Command. Co-pilot and Crew Co-pilot is Fit. Lt. R. R. Anderson, of Double Bay, N.S.W., who is nearly 28 years old, and arrived in England in April, 1943, since when he also has served with an R.A.A.F. Lancaster squadron. The navigator is F/O. J. G. Earl, of Eastwood, N.S.W., who did some of his operational flying with Wing Cdr. Donald- son. Earl, who is 25, was trained in Canada, and arrived over here in March, 1943. F/O. K. W. Miller, of Brisbane, Queensland, is Endeavour's flight engineer. He served as a fitter on R.A.F. stations in Britain before remustering to aircrew. He is aged 26. and has been away from Australia nearly four years. The radio operator is P/O. L. E. Welldon, of East Brisbane, Queensland. He also has flown together with Wing Cdr. Donaldson and F/O. Earl on a number of opera- tional sorties. Welldon enlisted in the R.A.A.F. in January, 1942, was trained in Australia, and arrived over here in March, 1943. He is 26. When Endeavour makes her flight out to the Commonwealth her co-pilot will be Ft. Lt. J. A. Critchley, D.F.C., of Brighton, Victoria. Critchley was captain, for the last three sorties over Germany, of the veteran R.A.F. Lancaster, G. for George, which was flown to Australia for exhibition in the Common- wealth War Museum. Everyone will wish to express sincere good wishes to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester in his Governor- Generalship, and may his Endeavour have equally as gallant a history as its famous namesake.
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