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1948
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MARCH I8TH, 1948 FLIGHT 315- LIGHTLY ON THE GREENSWARD : Hawker Sea Furies first operate from grass, before delivery to Service airfields, with their concrete runways. Later they fly to and from the steel decks of aircraft carriers. Mr. T. S. Wade, a Hawker test pilot, is here setting down one of these agile and versatile fighter-bombers on the grass at Langley. Air Minister Deputy Lieutenant ONE of five Deputy Lieutenants ap-pointed by the Duke of Wellington, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lon-don, is Mr. Arthur Henderson, the Air Minister. Halton Passing'Out TTHE paSsing-out inspection of approxi-J- mately two hundred apprentices of the 50th entry took place at R.A.F.Station, Halton, Bucks, on March 10th. The apprentices were inspected by AirMarshal Sir Ralph Sorley, K.C.B., O.B.E., D.S.C., D.F.C., Air OfficerCommanding-in-Chief, Technical Train- ing Command. Three squadrons ofapprentices with their pipe and fife band and the new goat mascot, Lewis II, tookpart. Parents attending were told by Airmodore J. F. Titmas, C.B.E., Air cer Commanding, R.A.F., Halton,hat the physical fitness of their sons was impressive. Apprentices had gainedan average of nearly 19J lb in weight since they began their course. Vampires for "605"A IR COMMODORE J. A. C.WRIGHT, first CO. of No. 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron of theR.Aux.A.F. when it was formed 22 years ago, inspected the recently re-formedsquadron at Honiley airfield on March 7th. After congratulating thepresent CO.—S/L. R. J. Walker, D.S.O.—and the other officers and air-men on their smart turn-out, Air Com- modore Wright, now the squadron'sHonorary Commodore, spoke of 605's proud record in the last war, and of theenviable reputation it had always had among auxiliary units. He recalled thatin the first nine years of its existence it had won the Esher Trophy on sixoccasions and had been second on two occasions. The squadron also had thedistinction of having been selected to take part in the annual flying display at Hendon each year before the war. Afurther distinction, he said, had just fallen to 605, in that it had been selectedas the first Auxiliary squadron- to con- vert to Vampires. He said it was hopedthat the new aircraft would become avail- able in June, shortly before the annualcamp in July Benevolent Fund Expenditure IN 1947 the R.A.F. Benevolent Fundgave help to 28,546 serving and former members of the R.A.F; andW.A.A.F., as against 31,134 cases in 1946. A.V-M. Sir John Cordingley, Con- Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News and Announcements troller of the Fund, states that the booksfor 1947 are not yet audited, but that they will show a small percentage in-crease in total expenditure over the 1946 figure of ^557,760. The number of air-men and airwomen helped was 24,990, as against 3,556 officers, and the number ofW.A.A.F. helped was 1,732, of whom 43 were officers. Biggin Hill Memorial Committee THE secretaryship of the Biggin HillMemorial Committee for the rebuild- ing of St. George's Chapel of Remem- brance at R.A.F. Station, Biggin Hill, Kent, has been taken over by the Rev.- K. G. Horner, the officiating chaplain at the station. In his secretarial work, Mr. Horner will be assisted by Miss Ella March, of "Troy," Stock Hill, Biggin Hill, a member of the committee. All communi- cations relating to the memorial and donations to the memorial fund should be addressed to the Hon. Secretary, Biggin Hill Memorial Committee, R.A.F. Station, Biggin Hill, Kent. Bomber Crews Remembered THE hundreds of Dominion and RoyalAir Force bomber crews who were based in the area during the war will berecalled when the annual memorial ser- vice is held at Stonefall Cemetery, Harro-gate, on Easter Sunday. The service is sponsored by the Harrogate VictoryBranch of the British Legion. The 1,000 graves at Stonefall—600 Canadian andthe rest R.A.F., Royal Australian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force,and French Air Force aircrews—are " adopted " by local families, who under-take to care for them and lay wreaths on appropriate days. The R.A.F. will be represented byA. Cdre. B. V. Reynolds, C.B.E., Air Officer Commanding No. 64 (NorthernReserve) Group. The High Commis- sioner for Australia (Mr. J. A. Beasley)and the Senior Air Staff Officer, Canadian Toint Liaison Committee, London (G/'C.V. H. Patriarche, O.B.E., A.F.C.) will also attend the service. It is hoped thatNew Zealand and France will be officially represented. The service will be con-ducted by the Rev. J. F. Cox. AerO'Medical Conference A FILM describing pilot ejection ex-periments will be one of the Royal Air Force exhibits at the Aero-MedicalAssociation Congress to be held at Toronto in June. The President of theCongress will be A. Cdre. J. W. Tice, M.B., former Director of Medical Ser-vices (Air), Royal Canadian Air Force. W/C. H. P. Russell-Smith, of the R.A.F.Institute of Aviation Medicine, Farn- borough, Hants, will be one of the dele-gates. He is a pilot with considerable experience on jet aircraft as well as adoctor, and was awarded the Air Force Cross during the war for flying work con-nected with medical problems. At the Congress there will be discussiongroups on various aspects of aviation medicine, including vision and hearing,air sickness, high speed and high alti-
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