FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1947
1947 - 0643.PDF
APRIL 24TH, 1947 FLIGHT 377 SERVICE Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News and Announcements HIGH ENDEAVOUR : Precursorof the promising Hermes civil air liners, the first prototype ofthe Handley-Page Hastings C.i military transport is seen on atest climb from its manufacturer's airfield at Radlett. AppointmentsT HE Air Ministry announces thatA. V-M. S. E. Toomer has been appointed Air Officer in Charge ofAdministration, Technical Training Command. A. Cdre. A. Gray is to beAir Officer Commanding, Air Head- quarters, Iraq, with the acting rank ofAir Vice-Marshal. A. V-M. Toomer, who is 52, has beenAir Officer Commanding No. 205 Group, Mediterranean and Middle East Com-mand, since March, 1946. He was Director of Fighter Operations at the AirMinistry in November, 1943. A. V-M. Gray, who is 50, has beenDirector of Flying Training at the Air Ministry since February, 1945. R.N.V.R. Squadrons FOUR R.N.V.R. Air Squadrons are tobe formed. Three will be located in the areas of Glasgow, Liverpool-Man-chester and London-Oxford. The loca- tion of the fourth will be announcedshortly. The squadrons will be com- manded by R.N.V.R. or R.N.V.R. (A)officers and will have liaison with the existing R.N.V.R. divisions but will boindependent commands. For the present, enrolment will berestricted to pilot and observer officers between the ages of 20 and 30 who havehad front-line squadron flying experience with the Royal Navy. Officers who haveheld command of front-line squadrons may be accepted up to the age of 33. Asmall number of air engineer officers will also be accepted up to the age of 35. Pilots and observers will be eligible toenrol for an initial period of five years, which may be extended subject to certainstipulations. Air engineer officers will not be required to enrol for any specifiedperiod. Pilot and observer officers will be required to carry out annually four-teen days' training either ashore or afloat, twelve week-ends and a furtherhundred hours' non-continuous train- ing. They will be eligible for a bounty of£35 Per annum and all officers will be entitled to full Naval pay and allowancesduring continuous training periods. For evening and week-end training an allow-ance of is 6d an hour and IS-TS 2d permile will be payable. ARCTIC ADAPTABILITY : A Gloster Meteor III (two Rolls-Royce Derwent, undergoing winterization trials at Namao, Alberta, Edmonton, Canada _ When the photograph was taken (February this year) the ground temperature was - 40 deg. C. New Zealand MosquitoesT HE eighty Mosquitoes ordered by theNew Zealand Government as post- war equipment for the R.N.Z.A.F. art-arriving at Ohakea, in ones ;m<l twos. The first squadron to be eqiiip|>rd will lieNo. 75. (The title of this wartime N.Z. heavy bomber squadron has been trans-ferred to the former No. 3 G.K. Squadron, the first N.Z. squadron inaction in the Solomons). Sonic of the Mosquitoes art- being flown Irom Per-shorc by K.A.F. ierry crews, arid some by No. 75 Squadron crews, who wereferried to Britain in Dakota:- ol 41 Squadron, R.N.Z.A.F. • There has been criticism ol theGovernment in New Zealand for buying aircraft which the critics claim are nowobsolescent, and the argument is raised that if the Mosquitoes are merely stop-gap equipment, till jet development is carried further, then the Lend-LeascVenturas, which, after equipping K.N.Z.A.F. bomber squadrons in thePacific, now lie wasting away in long rows on Rukahia airfield, Hamilton,might just as well have been used. In reply the Minister of Defence hassaid that the Mosquitoes are not stop gap equipment, but will remain standardlor sonic years. New Zealand needs a long-range attack machine. The R.A.F. and the Floods IN' the Fens and the Thames Valley,assistance continues to be given by the K.A.F. to the river catchment boards and local authorities in their efforts t'» deal with flood damage. Si\ R.A.K pre-heater vans, designed lor wanning aircraft engines, have been at work in the Maidenhead area, drying out houses and furniture by means of hot air, and oilier [ire-heater vans are doing similar services in the Windsor and I'.ion an-a. A good deal of K.A.I1', equipment has been sent to the l-'ens, u here the most urgent tasks are to pump the land dry and to drv out the houses. K.A.I-, per- sonnel are also assisting the Dtiteh en- gineers and others who are dealing with the two breaches in the bank?- ol 1 he riverTrent in Lincolnshire. Much of this work has to be carried onby night, and the Service >s providing
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
