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1947
1947 - 0089.PDF
JANUARY I6TH, I947 are 500 vacancies, close on January 28th.Candidates must be between 15^ and Commemorative Windowv ON behalf of General Carl Spaatz, Com-manding General of the U.S.A.A.F.,Major General Clayton Bissel unveiled, on January 8th, a stained-glass window-in Elvedon Marsh Church, Norfolk, com- memorating the 3rd Air Division of theU.S. 8th Air Force. The window was dedicated by the Bishop of Ipswich, andthe ceremony was attended by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder, AirMarshals Sir Norman Bottomley, Sir James Robb and Sir Leonard Slatter, and FLIGHT be shared by Cadets chosen from ReserveCommand groups of the Royal Air Force, covering Scotland, Northern England,Western England, Wales and London. The Cadets chosen are : — Sgt. D. W. England, No. 1128 (Crosby)Squadron, Liverpool. Fit. Sgt. Brian Marshal Laven of Xu.209 (West Nottingham) Squadron. Fit. Sgt. J. L. Price of No. 691 Squad-ron (Owens School Flight), London. Fit. Sgt. Ian Gowan Beattie of No.1152 (1st Dumfries) Squadron. The Cadets will be employed as assis-tant stewards, and on various other duties at the discretion of the Captain ofthe King's Flight. 77 piece into position ; this is because thenew fitting gives only half the field ot view of the normal type.All R.A.F. sextants are to be fitted with the new eyepiece, those belonging tothe Empire Air Navigation School having already been adapted. Transportand Bomber Commands should find the new eyepiece especially useful whenoperating over routes where radar chains are not yet complete. ' A.T.C. Qliding*- ' LAST year was a record year for theA.T.C. gliding schools. Nearly 3,000 cadets did gliding courses and over168,000 launches were made. There are now 84 gliding schools,equipped with Kirby Cadets, f\ in the United Kingdom. jy^y The gliding courses last for•'• about eight week-ends and over 700 instructors give uptlieir spare time to teach the HALTON TO-DAY : Three new views illus-trating the modernity of equipment for the instruction of aircraft apprenticesat Halton. (1) A Meteor III, with an apprentice being coached in starting tech-nique, (2) instruction in the principles of gas turbines, with a Goblin in theforeground and (3) a discourse on the 12,000-lb M.C. bomb (Tallboy). by Generals Hughlin and McCormick. The window represents an American airman kneeling before an angel, flanked by airfields. It is the work of a British artist, Cdr. Hugh Easton. :: A.T.C. Cadets for King's Flight / -T HE KING has been graciously pleasedto approve a recommendation that four Cadets of the Air Training Corpsshall serve in aircraft of the King's Flight during the Royal tour. This honour will Navigational Innovations^ A TELESCOPIC eyepiece has beendeveloped for the Mark IXA sextant to permit stars such as Polaris, which isabout 464 light years away_ and which could previously l>e-«sed~<5iify under the, most favourable weather conditions, to be used with greater ease and accuracyby R.A.F. navigators. The new device is a simple twin-lens telescope with amagnification of two diameters. Navi- gators locate their star with the normaleyepiece then swing the telescopic eye- "THor II" is Home- Lj*KOM the outset the tour of Thor //,•T the Empire Air Armament School Lincoln, was dogged by bad weather.This persisted in Canada and in the U.S. but apart from delays caused by weatherthe aircraft completed a tour of 15,000 miles without incident.During the first part of the tour I'll or II was accompanied by the Direc-tor-General of Armament (A.V-M. G. Combe, C.B.), who gave a lecture atR.C.A.F. Headquarters Ottawa on Armament Training and Development.D.-G. Arm. then returned to the U.K. and Grp. Capt. R. H. E. Emson, C.B.E.,Chief Instructor at the Empire Air Arma- ment School, took command of theMission. Thirteen R.C.A.F. stations from the east to west coast wrere visited.Lectures on current training subjects were delivered and a general lecture oncurrent armament thought was given by Grp. Capt. Emspn. A lecture was alsogiven to the R.C.A.F. Staff College at Toronto. The R.C.A.F. made the Mis-sion welcome everywhere. Certain modern armament equipment
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