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1949
1949 - 0190.PDF
126 F LI Pakistan Party A.V.-M. Atcherley Chief of R.P.A.F.T HE Air Minister, the Under-Secretary of State for Air, officers of the three Services, and familiar figures from the industry were among the guests at a Pakistan House reception last Thursday. The occasion marked the departure, on the following day, of A.V.-M. R.L.R. Atcherley, C.B.E., A.F.C., to take up his appoint- ment as Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force, and further enabled the guests to meet A. Cdre. M. K. Janjua, at present in the United Kingdom on a special mission for the Govern- ment of Pakistan. A statement from the office of the High Commissioner for Pakistan recalled that the Royal Pakistan Air Force came into being at the same time as the Dominion of Pakistan— on August 14th, 1947- In seventeen months, the Dominion has laid the foundations of its Air Force organization, and the need to-day is to pursue its training and development programme with determination and despatch. "A.V.-M. Atcherley's reputation for drive and vigour is well known," ran the statement, "and Pakistan is keenly looking forward to a rapid building-up of its Air Force." While in this country, A. Cdre. Janjua is studying R.A.F. organization and endeavouring to keep to schedule the supply of aircraft and raid-warning apparatus for the R.P.A.F. Some difficulty is being experienced in obtain- ing the desired quantity of warning gear. The Air Com- modore is also '' going into the question of securing the services of specialist personnel" for the R.P.A.F., parti- cularly those qualified to train the "Pakistani Young Entry" in technical maintenance. A. Cdre. Janjua was commissioned in the Indian Army in 1934 and seconded to the Royal Indian Air Force four years later. At the time of the partition of the Indo- Pakistan sub-continent in 1947, as a Wing Commander, he was appointed Senior Member for Pakistan on the Air Force Sub-Committee of the Armed Forces Reconstitution Com- mittee. With the rank of Group Captain, in August, 1947, he became Senior Officer I/C, Administration, R.P.A.F., ij? which appointment he was later promoted to Air Com- modore. For a period, he was acting Air Commander, R.P.A.F. The principal bases of the R.P.A.F., the Air Commodore 3rom»£N>3RD, i^Jfl V^s TEST PILOTS HONOURED BY ROYAL AERO CLUB FOR his achievement in establishing the world's altituderecord for Great Britain, by flying the D.H. Ghost- Vampire.to 59,440 ft, on March 23rd last year, Mr, John Cun- ningham, D.S.O., D.F.C., receives from the Committee of the Royal Aero Club the award ot the Britannia Trophy for 1948. The Trophy was presented to the Royal Aero Club in 1913 by Mr. Horatio Barber, holder of Aviator's Certificate No. 30 and designer and constructor of the Valkyrie tail-first monoplane and the Viking biplane of 1910. It is awarded annually to the British aviator considered to have accomplished the most meri- torious performance in the air during the preceding year. The 1947 Trophy was shared by S/L. H. B. Martin and S/L. E. B. Sismoie for their London-Capetown record flight in a Mosquito P.R.34. ' Mr. John Doug!a%£jyfy, D.F.C., as the first British sub- ^^ ^^^ ject to exceed the speed of sound """" in a British aircraft, receives a Royal Aero Club Gold Medal. While diving the D.H. 108 over Windsor on September 6th last year, Mr. Derry recorded a Mach Number in excess of one. Only 24 Gold Medals have been awarded by the Club since its foundation in 1901. For revictualling the keepers of the Wolf Rock lighthouse from the air, in a Westland Sikorsky S-51 helicopter on February 7th, 1948, Mr. John Cunningham, Mr. Alan Edgar Bristow has been D.S.O., D.F.C. (chief awarded a Royal Aero Club Silver D.H. test pilot). Medal Group Captain R. J. F. Barton, Resident Director, Air Service Training left), welcomes A.V-M. Atcherley (right) and A. Cdre. Janjua of the Royal Pakistan Air Force. told Flight, are the old R.A.F. stations at Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. At Mauripur is the R.P.A.F. College, run on Cranwell lines. Equipment of the Air Force includes Hawker Tempest 2s, Hawker Furies, Dakotas and two Bristol Freighters. Prior to his departure, A.V.-M. Atcherley, accompanied by A. Cdre. Janjua and S/L. A. R, K. Malik, Controller of Air Stores, R.P.A.F., paid a visit to Air Service Training, Hamble, with the object of meeting Pakistani officers taking the two-year Technical Officers' Course. After inspecting the R.P.A.F. personnel, the party toured the various schools with G/C. R. J. F. Barton, O.B.E., Resident. Director. -; An interesting aspect of the visit was the meeting between the Resident Director and A.V.-M. Atcherley, for the latter had been a cadet under Group Captain Barton, then Deputy- Commandant at the R.A.F. College. Prior to his Pakistan appointment, A.V.-M. Atcherley was himself Commandant1 at Cranwell. FIRST CHILEAN-BUILT AIRCRAFT "DRODUCED by the Central Workshops of the Chilean AirJ- Force, the Maertranza Central de Aviacion, at Santiago, the Triciclo-Experimental two-seater low-wing monoplane isindicative of the interest being taken by the smaller Republics . of South America in the possibilities of building aircraft fromlocally produced materials. The Triciclo-Experimental has been constructed from native woods bonded by casein glue oflocal manufacture and its engine is the only imported item. Senor Alfredo D. Ferrer is the designer of this aircraft, whichhas a fixed tricycle undercarriage, twin fins and rudders, and is powered by a Franklin four-cylinder horizontally-opposedair-cooled engine which develops 9,5 h.p. at 2,450 r.p.m. Com- plete dual controls are fitted in the side-by-side cabin, andradio equipment cf Chilean design is fitted The experimental two-seater, with tricycle undercarriage, designed and built by the Chilean Air Force. B S
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