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1948
1948 - 0188.PDF
164 FLIGHT FEBRUARY 5TH, 1948 Service Aviation ing more than 16 squadrons. AdditionalD.I.O.s will be appointed on the basis of one for every JO squadrons in excessof 16. All these posts will be filled by officers of the R.A.F.V.R. TrainingBranch, commissions in which are held by all A.T.C. officers. Mediterranean Search and RescueF OUR representatives of the ItalianAir Ministry, headed by Colonel Roveda, arrived in Valetta, Malta,recently to study Royal Air Force Search and Rescue technique. An agreement issought to co-ordinate " S. and R." methods in the Mediterranean. Overseas Flights for A.T.C. CadetsE IGHTY A.T.C. cadets are to be givenoverseas flights each month, it was announced by Mr. Geofirey de Freitas,Under-Secretary of State for Air, in Malta on January 22nd. Addressing aR.A.F. audience, Mr. de Freitas said: " Yon will soon be having a number ofyoung visitors—cadets of the Air Train- ing Corps. We on the Air Council arevery conscious of our responsibilities to the A.T.C. and of its value to the futureAir Farce and we have been happy to approve a scheme for 80 cadets to beflown overseas each month on R.A.F. Transport Command scheduled routes.Some of them will be passing through this station, and many of you, as oldA.T.C. boys yourselves, will I know be glad to welcome them and help them.They will not be mere passengers. They will be supernumerary aircrew with therank of Assistant Air Quartermaster. They will be authorized to enter thecaptain's compartment during flight and practise map reading, in addition tocarrying out the normal duties of an aircraft steward." The routes on which the cadets will becarried are: India: (six days' return flight, threedepartures a week) via Lyneham, Malta, Habbaniya, Karachi and return.Egypt: (four days' return flight, twice a week) via Lyneham, Malta or CastelBenito, Fayid and return direct to Lyne- ham. B.A.F.O. (Germany): (two days'return flight, six departures a week) via Northolt, Buckeburg and return. HAPPY UNVEILING : Air Marshal Sir Hugh Sounders, Air Member for Personnel, unveils a plaque in the new holiday and convales- cent home for children of St. Dunstaners at Northgate House, Rottingdean. The plaque records that the home was en- dowed by funds raised by the R.A.F. B.A.F.O. [Ger-many) : (two days' return flight, sixdepartures a week) via Oakington,Buckeburg and re- turn. B.A.F.O. Ger-many): (1 day Teturn flight, six departures weekly) via Oakington, Buckeburg andreturn. The flights to Pakistan w31 not extendbeyond Karachi. Battle of Britain Week BATTLE oi Britain Week will beobserved in 1948 as in previous years; the dates will be Septemt>er 13thto 19th. In accordance with the decision of the Air Council in 1945, Battle ofBritain Day is fixed on September 15th, and this year the R.A.F. "At Home"day will fall on September 18th. Battle of Britain Sunday will be September19th. Last year mare than seventy R.A.F.Stations invited the public to visit them on the "At Home" day. Plans for thisyear will be announced in due course. Commemorating First Air V.C.I T is announced by the R.A.F. Bene-volent Fund that fourteen airmen's houses being built at Morden (Surrey)will be named after 2nd Lieutenant \V. B. Rhodes-Moorhouse, who was thefirst member of the flying services to win the Victoria Cross. Permission hasbeen given by his widow, who lives at Barnard Castle (Co. Durham). Thehouses have not yet been allocated, but there is already a long list of deservingcases. Similar houses are under con- struction by the British Legion in otherparts of Britain, e.g., Sunderland, Leeds. Norwich, Glasgow and Belfast. Lieutenant Rhodes-Moorhousf was airtSxded tbe V.C. posthumously in May,1915. On the return journey irom a liombing rakl on Courtrai IH? was mort-ally wounded, tint in spite of -his wounds he flew to his destination 3j miles a tray,made a perfect landing, and handed in his report. On the next day he diedin hospital: Britannia Shield "THE Britannia Shield, won by France•*• during the sports competitions held in this country during Battle of BritainWeek last September, is to be kept at the French Embassy in London untilthis year's competition, and will he formally handed to the French Ambas-sador by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt, chairman of the BritanniaShield Committee, early in February. ""-'•' : Reunion . ' '"THE '' Ratgroupers '' Association came•*- into being at a recent reunion, of ex-Rhodesia Air Training Group person-nel. Further informal parties have been arranged for March 24th and June 23rd,at the Rising Sun Hotel, 46, Tottenham Court Road, London, W.i, and a dancein the near future is contemplated. Sub- scription (3s 6d p.a.) should be sent toS/L. A. L. Cuddington, Hermitage Lodge, The Hermitage, Richmond,Surrey. Provincial "Ratgroupers" are meeting in the Manchester, 1NT.E. Eng-land, Birmingham, and other areas. Addresses of local secretaries obtainablefrant-S/L Cudding MOSQUITO T.T.39 : This mark of Mosquito has an entirely new nose, housing a camera; a rear cupola; and a retractable windmill-driven target-towing winch in the bomb bay. Special four-blade airscrews will be fitted, though the specimen shown has cropped 3-bladers.
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