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Aviation History
1947
1947 - 1322.PDF
'52 AUGUST 7TH. TO47 COMPASS-RASED : An attractive view of the rew Westlaid Wyvern (pronounced " Wiwer.i ") Naval strike fighter with a Rolls-Royce Eagle engine cf 3,500 h.p. The first prototype is seen on the compass base at Yeovil. Arabic Studies SIX R.A.F. officers are likely to beselected to attend the next course at the Middle East Centre for ArabicStudies at Zerka, Transjordan, which pro- vides training for officers of the threeServices for posts requiring a background cf Arabic, Islamic and Middle Easternhistory and customs, as well as a know- ledge of the Arabic language and theproblems confronting the Government in the Middle East. Far East Weather THE establishment of an Air MinistryExperimental Station on the hills overlooking Changi airfield, near Singa-pore, Headquarters of Air Command, Far East, means that flying from this air- field has become safer. The station ismanned by some thirty R.A.F. person- nel, including radar operators, who taketurns in keeping a watch in a radar van to plot rainstorms and thunderstorms.The information is passed to the Air Command, Far East, Meteorological Sta-tion, which in turn informs the pilots of all aircraft in the affected zone of theweather conditions they can expect. Italian Inspection 'PHE Under-Secretary of State for Air,-*• Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas, M.P., made a short inspection of Royal Air Force unitsin Italy and Austria last week. He talked informally to officers and airmen and paidspecial attention to the work of the men and their living conditions. Mr. deFreitas, accompanied by W/C. A. H. Smythe, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., actingas his personal assistant, and his private secretary, Mr. J. A'. Millson. leftNortholt on July 28th in an R.A.F. Transport Command Dakota for Udine,Italy. R.A.F. Regiment Officers' Dinner Club THE first dinner of the R.A.F. Regi-ment Officers' Dinner Club will be held on Thursday, September 25th, at 7p.m. for 7.45 p.m. at the Cafe Royal, London. Admission will be by ticketonly (£\ is) and all past or present officers of the R.A.F. Regiment are invited.Further information may be had from Mr. L. S. Syrnons, 63, WoodgrangeAvenue, Kenton, Middlesex. STERN ASPECT: The businesslike rear aspect of the Wyvern, showing the "kinked' wing, of 44ft span, folds to 18ft. wing and the flap guides. The laminar-flow
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