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1948
1948 - 0284.PDF
244 FLIGHT FEBRUARY 26TH, 1045 Service Aviation part of the Royal Air l<orce, and not oneof its auxiliaries. Other branches of the women's servicewill be the Women's Royal Air Force Re- serve of Officers, the Women's Royal AirForce Keserve, the Women's Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, the Women'sRoyal Auxiliary Air Force, and the Women's Royal Auxiliary Air ForceReserve. Escaping SocietyT HE R.A.F. Escaping Society officesare now at No. 83, Portland Place, London, W.I. Telephone: Welbeck1156, extension 24. Electrical Quarterly .,:••• THE first issue of the ElectricalOfficers' Association (R.A.F.) Quarterly Bulletin contains an inauguraladdress by Group Captain C. C. Bazell, A.M.I.E.E., the President of the Asso-ciation, which was formed in 1946. Elec- trical officers will find an abundance ofnews and technical information in its 23 pages. The Editor is S/L. E. Armi-stead, 33, The Drive, Adel, Leeds, 6, Yorks. W.A.A.F. Overseas InspectionT HE Director of the Women'sAuxiliary Air Force, Air Com- mandant F. H. Hanbury, M.B.E., ismaking an inspection of all R.A.F. stations in the Middle East and FarEast on which W.A.A.F. personnel are serving. The purpose of her visit is toassure herself that conditions on these overseas stations are suitable in everyrespect for women, and that adequate facilities for recreation and leave existwhen the W.A.A.F. overseas posting policy is brought into line with that ofthe Royal Air Force. This will be the Air Commandant'sfirst visit to Singapore and the Far East, but many of the stations in the MiddleEast will be familiar to her. s. The ::Director was Senior W.A.A.F. Staff POLAR KINGFISHER : The Kingfisher (genus Chance-Vought) is an uncommon sight these days. Here is one going aboard H.M.A.S. " Wyatt Earp," a vessel used for Antarctic exploration. Officer in the Middle East in 1945 and1946, when in nine months she put in 300 flying hours to visit the 3,500 officersand airwomen, then in Middle East. Aid from Art \TEAKLY ^1,500 has been collected for-L> the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund by the sale and exhibition of pictures by notedBrazilian artists. The pictures were donated by the artists in 1943 as a ges-ture of friendship to Britain. After exhi- bition in London, they were seen at theCastle Museum, Norwich; the National Gallery, Edinburgh; the Kelvin GroveArt Gallery, Glasgow ; the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath ; the Bristol Museum andArt*Gallery ; the Manchester Art Caller -, and the Reading Art Gallery.. MINUS BUTTON, PLUS D.S.O, : *"W/ien he attended an Investiture at Buckingham Palace recently to receive the D.S.O. forfbver a hundred bombing operations, F/L J. C. Cogill wore the new-type officers tunic whieffhas no side pockets, no bottom button and a hacking-jacket / type back. R.A.F. Rugby Union ChairmanA . CDRE. G. R. BEAMISH, C.B.,C.B.E., rugby captain and Irish in- ternational, has succeeded G/C. G. A.Walker, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., as chairman of the R.A.F. Rugby Union.A. Cdre. Beamish is Director of Weapons, Air Ministry. Holder of 25 international.caps, he has two brothers in the service, and his elder brother, G/C. F. V.Beamish, D.S.O. and Bar, D.F.C., A.F.C., was killed during the war. Allfour have represented the R.A.F. at Rugby, and one of them has played 12times for Ireland. During the war the family held a unique record, with fourbrothers and two sisters in the R.A.F., the latter being women dental officers. A. Cdre. Beamish is an all-roundsportsman. In 1925 he was R.A.F. officers' gold champion, and in 1929R.A.F. heavyweight boxing champion. R.A.F. SchoolT HE R.A.F. has set up a School cEducation at Wellesbourne Mount- ford, Warwickshire, to provide coursesfor education officers and others' who may have to perform educational duties.One object of the school is to giv* specialist training to newly appointededucation branch officers, including the adaptation of their professional qualifica-tions to Air Force needs. Courses for this purpose will, to begin with, last fourweeks and will cover some aspects of teaching practice, the organization ofAir Force education, the part played t*,' education. in maintaining high trainingand morale standards, and the scope of .•the citizenship and current affairsscheme. The school is also to train members of the Service who may haveto help as instructors in citizenship and current affairs under the General Educa-tion-Scheme. Reunions A NO. 19 F.T.S. reunion will takeplace on Saturday, March 13th, at the Strand Brasserie. Tickets—13s each—from F/O. J. Oliver, R.A.F., Felt- veil, Thetford, Norfolk. :•
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