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1948
1948 - 1779.PDF
OCTOBER 2IST, 1948 FLIGHT 501- supplemented by F-80 Shooting Starsand B-29 Superfortresses of the U.S.A.F. The F-8os are from the U.S.zone of Germany, and will operate from the Fighter Command Meteor base atTangmere during their stay in England. It is considered probable that the Super-marine Attacker, Hawker P. 1040,,, and D.H.108 will also be displayed in theair. The first demonstration will takeplace on Tuesday, October 26th, and will illustrate modern air-to-groundoffensive support, employing 500-lb bombs, rocket projectiles, and cannonfire. Airborne operations will take place at Netheravon on the following day;when men and equipment will be dropped by parachute. A New W.A.A.F. Tropical Mess Uniform NEW tropical mess dress has been approved for W.A.A.F. officers, con- sisting of a smart dress in white drill, with short slesves finished with a turned- back cuff, and a seven-gored skirt. Rank is shown by half-width gold-lace braid on Air Force blue shoulder straps, sur- mounted by an eagle and crown in gold embroidery. More Reserve Recruiting TTRAINING for navigators and sig--L nailers is now to be given in Ansons at all the R.A.F. Reserve Centres alreadyaccepting pilots. The names of aircrew volunteers will also be taken at theLiverpool and Newcastle - on - Tyne Centres, in preparation for the openingof Flying Schools there. Ground crews are also being enrolled now at all ReserveCentres, with the exception of Doncaster, Chessington, Kenley and Hornchurch. . Carriers Off St. Helena SEA FURIES and Fireflies from thelight fleet carriers Theseus and Vengeance flying over the island of St.Helena in the S. Atlantic provided a rare spectacle for the inhabitants on Octo-ber 12th, when these units of the Home Fleet passed the island en route to SouthAfrica. When the aircraft executed a flypast over Government House at James-town, the capital, the excited St. Helena schoolchildren, many of whom had never& seen aircraft before, dashed out of school f at first sound of the squadrons, states areport from the Theseus. While the Com- FILLIP A standard Blackburn equipped with assisted Firebrand 5 of No. < take-off rocket tubes. " Flight " photograph. val Air Squad ran l_ mander of the accompanying destroyerCorunna was having lunch with the Governor of the Island, a Firefly fromthe Theseus dropped a bag on to the lawn, some 25 yards from the lunch table,containing photographs of Jamestown harbour taken from the air thatmorning. RXJ.S.L LectureB RIG.-GEN. A. E. RICHMOND, C.B.E., K.H.S., will deliver a lecture next Wednesday, at 3 p.m., to members of the Royal United Services Institute on "The physiological prob- lems set by modern warfare in regard to the fighting man." The lecture is to be given at the Institute's premises in Whitehall, and entry is restricted to members and their friends. The chair will be taken by Air Marshal P. C. Livingston, C.B., C.B.E., A.F.C., F.R.C.S., K.H.S., who is director of the R.A.F. medical services. Memorial Awards - - -I N 1946 Major and Mrs. Keith Grovesplaced a sum of money at the dis- posal of the Air Ministry to enable threeawards to be made annually, in memory of their son, Sgt. L. G. Groves, ameteorological observer killed on a weather flight in September, 1945-The awards made this year have now been announced, and are as follows: theL. G. Groves Memorial Prize for Aircraft DEFT NOVICE : Lt. A. B. Clark lands at Idlewild in the Sea Vampire 20 after an aerobatic performance which gave no hint that his previous flying time on the Vampire was only 80 minutes. B29 Safety has been awarded to W/C. T. Q.Horner, for improvements in R.A.F. rescue facilities. Dr. R. Frith, of theR.A.F., receives the Memorial Prize for Meteorology in recognition of valuablework with the Met. Research Flight, and the L. G. Groves award for meteorologi-cal observers goes to F/S. P. G. White, R.A.F.V.R. Aircrew ExchangeP LANS for an interchange of aircraftand crews, to take part in training and manoeuvres, between the R.A.F. andFrench Air Force were discussed by the Secretaries for Air of the two countries,M. Jean Moreau and Mr. Arthur Hender- son, and the Chief of Air Staff, LordTedder, at a conference in London earlier this month. Under the co-ordinatingscheme of Western Union defence, methods of combat and training of thecomponent air forces will be standard- ized. Canadian Air Training Again 1 A LTHOUGH there is no news of official**• consideration of the subject, there are speculations in Canada regardingpossible revival of the wartime joint R.A.F.-R.C.A.F. Air Training Plan, inview of the increased aircrew commit- ments lately taken on by the R.A.F. TheR.C.A.F. has also stepped up its training programme. Beating the Birds LAST year 13 accidents to aircraft inthis country, and 17 in other parts of the world, were caused by birds. Ex-periments in one method of decreasing this danger were conducted at R.A.F.Station Shawbury about a year ago, when it was shown that a few " sorties "each day by a peregrine falcon would keep plovers away from the airfield. The scope of the experiments is to beincreased this year; 15 peregrine falcons have now been supplied to the R.A.F.,and they will operate from Drifneld and Coltishall. Two groups of trained R.A.F.falconers, consisting of two flight sergeants, a corporal, and three aircraft-men, will superintend the flying, while their civilian trainer in falconry, Mr.Ronald Stevens, will test independently the deterrent effect of falcons againstthe seabirds which frequent coastal air- fields. It is emphasized that the purposeof the experiments is to discourage birds
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