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1948
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AUGUST igra, 1948 FLIGHT 223 Service Aviation Fayid (Egypt), Aden, Khartoum. Nairobi, Heany (Rhodesia), and Pre- toria. The liaison team will then visit several units of the S.A.A.F. Mercury II, which will be captained by F/L. M. Hoyle, is due back in the U.K. on October 15. Shortly before the Mercury leaves the U.K., another team of R.A.F. radio specialists is due to return from an African flight. G/C. B. H. Boon, E.A.F. Inspector of Radio Services, and members of his staff are at present en- gaged on a tour of R.A.F. units in Africa and the Middle East to survey and check radio navigational aids and communica- tion facilities. They are flying in the Lancaster Iris, which left the U.K. on July 27th and is due back on August 27th Their itinerary included visits to Malta, Tripolitania, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, the Persian Gulf, Somali- land, Nairobi and Khartoum. A.V-M. E. B. Addison, C.B., C.B.E., Air Officer Commanding No. 90 Group, R.A.F., is to join the party in Egypt. Ex'Naval Ratings for R.N.V.R. AIR maintenance and ancillary ratingswho served in aircraft carriers and naval air stations during the war maynow enrol in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Training facilities will be avail-able at the following Royal Naval Air Stations: Culham, near Abingdon, Ox-fordshire; Bramcote, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire; Stretton, near Warring-ton, Lancashire; and Abbotsinch, Glas- gow. Each Air Station has an R.N.V.R.Air Squadron attached. Volunteers will be required to undertake a five year en-gagement, to perform 80 drills of one hour duration each year, and 56 days'training with the Royal Navy in periods of not less than 14 days during the fiveyears. Compensation will be paid for travelling expenses between the homesof volunteers and the air stations to which they are attached. There will alsobe an expenses allowance and grants. Applicants should write, forwardingservice certificates, to the Commanding Officer of the nearest of the four air sta-tions, whose Commanding Officers will arrange interviews and give furtherdetails. Men are required to enrol in the following categories : —(a) Maintenanceratings of airframe, engines, electrical, ordnance and radio categories; (b) ex-seamen ratings with the air non-substan- tive qualification of safety equipment,aircraft handlers and meteorologists and qualified meteorologists. Also ex-seamenratings employed as aircraft handlers prior to the introduction of the non-sub-stantive rate. These ex-seamen entries will be enrolled as naval airmen; (c)photographers and supply assistants air. Royal MailT HE Royal Mail air service from London to Balmoral Castle, on Deeside, began on August 6th and will continue daily during the Royal Family's residence. The service was inaugurated last year. A Viking of the King's Flight, stationed at Benson, and flown by W/C. A. V. Tacon, the King's pilot, takes the mail to Dyce; there it is transferred to helicopters, flown by F/L. Trubshaw and F/L. Lee, landings being made on a cricket field in the grounds of Balmoral Castle. ..... ... ••:-•_•••-. ."v -.-•*•'• -••-• "54" Collects New Laurels HPHE heavy programme of aerobatic dis--*- plays and exercises by No. 54 Squad- ron in America, has gone off without ahitch, save for weather interference. After a formal ceremony of arrival atMitchell Field the British Force was wel- comed by General Stratemeyer, Com-manding General Air Defence Command, U.S.A.F., in the warmest terms. MitchellField Base made every arrangement to ensure that when the squadron couldrelax they were royally entertained. Theatres and dinner parties rounded offenergetic days of lli^glay and exercise work. >*•-••• On August 7th, sjbefore the opening ofthe IdTUjvitdipjerhational Airport expo- sition, fouT^remgires led by F/L. F. G. Woolley, D.F.C., were engaged in aninterception exercise against B-29.S. Sec- tor Control worked perfectly and inter-ception was made at 24,000ft seven minutes from take off. The Vampirescontributed a polished aerobatic display towards the end of the day's flying pro-gramme. Bad weather caused the can- cellation of flying on the following day—the U.S.A.F. Day at Idlewild—but on the Monday the Vampires were seen togreater advantage. Expert observers were much impressed by the fact thatthese were four of the six machines which had crossed the Atlantic, flown six thou-sand miles, covered eleven legs on jour- ney, and done more than ten demonstra-tions without any technical hitch. Faith in the reliability of these aircraft wasexemplified by the fact that no spare turbojets were carried. At Langley Field, Virginia, visited bythe Force before it came on to New York, Major Dyer, U.S.A.F. Base OperationsOfficer, flew a Vampire for forty minutes. On landing he declared: "This is thefinest piece of machinery I have ever flown." He was tnuch impressed bythe lightness of controls and excellent manoeuvrability. The Cambridge Cockpit TERRORS made by R.A.F. pilots who -*-* have been tested in the Cambridge Cockpit under different conditions during the past eight years at the Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge University, are analyzed i'n Pilot Error (H.M.S.O., o.d), recently published. Such errors are attri- buted to variations of "anticipatory ten- sion '' felt by a pilot anxious to achieve the standard of performance acquired from his training and experience. The report suggests that flying instructors should pay special attention not so much to how well a pilot can fly, but how his skill is upset when he encounters diffi- culties. The Cambridge Cockpit is an appara- tus specially designed and built for these experiments, and pilots undergoing tests (a form of instrument flying which was much more difficult than the real thing) TOURISTS : The Hawker Sea Furies and de Havilland Sea Hornets which, flown by Naval pilots, have been putting up such a fine show in America, are seen at Floyd Bennett airport, New York, where they were based for their participation in the International Air Exposition. A 10
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