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1947
1947 - 0038.PDF
FLIGHT JANUARY OTH, 1947 THERE FOR TURKISH DELIGHT :Cne of a number of training Cxloids now being suppliedto the Turkish Air Force by Airspeeds. Fore! \/ '"THE Aircraft Golfing Society (not to•*• be confused with the Aero Golfing Society) is holding its first annual danceon Friday, January 24th, at the Brent Bridge Hotel, Hendon, N.W.4, startingat 7 p.m. Tickets at 10s 6d are obtain- able from the hon. sec, Mr. B. D. Song-hurst, 122a, Kenton Road, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex. The King's Vikings JB ROOKLYN AIR STATION, nearCape Town, will be the base for the King's Flight during the Royal tour ofSouth Africa, and His Majesty's four Vickers Vikings are expected there latethis month or early in February, in preparation for the event. Two of the Vikings are to ferry out 28officers and men of the maintenance staff almost any day now, but they willreturn to England, for the final outward flight under the command of AirComdre. E. H. Fielden, Captain of the King's Flight, when the rest of themaintenance staff will be taken to the South African base. "Out 0/ Evil . V ,ASa memorial to " Those who escaped•ii- but did not return," ex-R.A.F. prisoners from the notorious Stalag LuftIII have raised over ^450 for the R.A.F. " Flight " vitotoyravlt. loaded uo cam bothBenevolent Fund. (Fifty R.A.F. officerswere shot escaping from this camp in March, 1944). Jn 1944 the prisoners produced aweekly camp newspaper called Scangriff ("Scandal-sheet"), and decided, whenthey were repatriated, to produce a more permanent record of their experiences.The work was started under F/L. Mark S. Winston, who was shot down overRostock on Hitler's birthday, 1943, and is now a probation officer at Halifax. During the march from Silesia themanuscript was carried in a mess tin and flown to England on VE-Day. Lastautumn the book was privately printed under the title '' Spotlight on StalagLuft III," and profits ameunting to over £450 have now gone to the R.A.F.Benevolent Fund. Taxi! •/ '""TIM" SIMS, the captain of theJ- Bristol Freighter touring the Americas, has a kind heart which hasrecently earned him some advantageous publicity. The story goes that having arrived atOaklans airport, where the Freighter was parked, from San Francisco with hiscrew in a taxi, he learnt that the taxi driver, Mr. Earl Plessman, would haveto make the return journey with an empty cab. This seemed rather tough, SNOWMOBILE : This picture of a Norwegian model of an airscrew-driven saloonsledge, quite popular in the U.S. and Canada, was sent to Flight as a Christmas card by Mr. A. G. Brownsill, of Norwegian Airlines, from Oslo. He formerly servedwith Coastal Command and B.O.A.C so "Tim" piompiand driver and flew San Francisco. It happened to be Mr. Plessman'sbirthday and he described the gesture as "a swell birthday present,'' particularlyas it saved him 35 cents in bridge toll, not to mention a gallon or two of" gas." The Late Miss Lyon *7 •""PHE death was announced last month•*- of Miss Hilda Margaret Lyon, of Farnham, Surrey, who had the distinc-tion of being one of the first women to become an Associate Fellow of theR.Ae.S. and, in 1930, the first woman to be awarded a prize by the Society. Thiswas the R.38 Memorial Prize, presented annually, which she won with a paper on The Strength of Transverse Frames inRigid Airships." Much of Miss Lyon's earlier work was,in fact, connected with airships, and for a number of years she was on the techni-cal staff at Cardington. More recently, however, she was engaged in researchwork at the R.A.E. at Farnborough. She was 50. P.T. with R.A.F. ^'A N indication that the Air Ministry isbeginning to implement its oft- repeated good intentions towards the AirTraining Corps, and to encourage its cadets by providing better facilities anda closer liaison with the R.A.F., was provided last week when some 70 cadetsdrawn from A.T.C. squadrons all over the country were given a three-dayphysical training course at the R.A.F. Station at Cosford, near Wolverhamp-ton. The brief syllabus included boxing,fencing and football as well as lectures on P.T. and general health, while thefact that Cosford Station (one of thf largest of our pre-war permanent training establishments) boasts a roller skating rink, was an added attraction. A Wide Choice SOME 200 surplus aircraft, rangingfrom a Moth Minor, a Leopard Moth and a Cygnet to 17 Halifaxes, a rounddozen Warwicks, six Lancastrians, and a solitary Liberator, have recently beenoffered for sale by tender by the Ministry of Supply. In between these extremes came suchtypes as Proctors, Magisters and
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