FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1949
1949 - 0322.PDF
aio FLIGHT FEBRUARY I7TH. iQ4<j Service Aviation coniferous or deciduous groups. Mos-quitoes will probably be selected for the survey. R.A.F. at the "Ideal Home" A " FLIGHT" in a Meteor, and afifteen-minute re-enactment of the scene in Fighter Command Operations Room, at the peak of the Battle of Britain, will be two of the highlights of the R.A.F. stands at the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia, opening on March ist. Spare-time service in the Auxiliary and Reserve forces of the R.A.F. will be the theme of the R.A.F. exhibits. Visitors will be able to sit in the cock- pit of a Meteor, handle the controls, and t>e given the impression of the earth moving beneath them. Thev will be able to control a model aircraft by an automatic pilot, operate a gyro gun- sight training set as used by pilots and gunners, and see a "Gee" radar set in action as in an aircraft. A Bofors A.-A. gun will be open to inspection, and an electrically operated 0.5 Browning machine gun and a sectioned working model of an aerial camera will also be on show. Winter SunshineE LEVEN Bomber Command Liucolns left Waddington on January 31st on " Exercise Sunray," the Command's regular monthly training flight to the Middle East. Replacing 12 Lincolns now returning, they will spend a month in the Canal Zone of Egypt. R.A.F. Pilot Decorated THE King has been graciously pleasedto approve the award of the British Empire Medal to Pilot II Basil George Ashton, Royal Air Force. The citation is as follows: Whilst a pupil on No. 126 Survival and Rescue Course, Thorney Island, Pit. II Ashton was captain of.an airborne lifeboat, which capsized in heavy break- ing seas on Chichester Harbour bar, on January 8th, 1948. All the occupants were thrown out, one being drowned. Pit. II Ashton was the first to climb aboard the upturned boat, but he left it MILD FURY: Retaining the pleasant handling fighter version, the Sea Fury Trainer is an fighter-trainer again to rescue three other members of the crew who were struggling to reach it. The waves were so large that two of his comrades were washed back again into the sea, Ashton helping in their final rescue. All were exhausted. The incident called for resource and personal courage of a high degree under the ex- tremely dangerous conditions prevailing. Had Pit. II Ashton failed in these re- spects, all the occupants of the lifeboat might have been drowned. He risked his life to save others. His conduct and leadership as a trainee captain, without which this accident might well have had more serious results, were exemplary. Now stationed at Benson, Pit. II Ash- ton is serving with a photographic recon- naissance squadron flying Mosquitoes and Ansons. He joined the R.A.F. in 1937 and trained as a pilot in 1943-44. 1 Flight " photograph. qualities and sp/r;te?Kftgrforrnonce of the excellent example of the n6W f 1)1,11 loiiabie conversion. ^..,. R.A.F. Permanent Commission^ GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH. Squadron Leaders: D. E. Cattell, H. L. Derwent.A.F.C., W. E. Farrow, A.F.C., I. L. M. Hallartf. K. Jones, D.F.C., J. N. MacKenzie, D.F.C. Flight Lieutenants: R. T. Duck, M. P. Fish**;-D.F.C., K. Kingshott, D. W. McAdam, D.F.C., S. McCreith, A.F.C., R. J. W. Mason, T. P. Meyer»G. R. Muirhead, D.F.M., B. R. H. Mnnn C." C. Povey. D.F.C., G. W. Salter. D.F.C.. J. E. t>.Taylor. Flying Officers: \V. Porter, A. C. Spencer. ,: Pilot Officer. G. Rafer. 'J-". PRIZE-GIVING : At R.A.F. Station North Luffenham on February 8th, Lord Tedder presented Transport Command's Accident Prevention Trophy. GjC. M. H. Kelly right) is seen receiving the award—a silver model of a Halifax—on behalf of the station. TECHNICAL BRANCH. Squadron Leader: R. F. Sparrow. Flight Lieutenant: K. A. Young, D.F.C. Flying Officers: P. J. Reen, B. M. SomerfieM, P. K. Whitaker. EQUIPMENT BRANCH. Squadron Leader: P. J. Ash. Flight Lieutenants: G. Richardson, R. G. T. Williams, S. F. Wood. Flying Officers: A. W. Hay, H. J. Horner. SECRETARIAL BRANCH. Squadron Leaders: J. M. Anderson, A. Maddison, .' P. Raby. . V Flight Lieutenants: R. E. G. Francis, J. E.Gibbs, D.F.C.. D.F.M., T. L. Gillieson. R. K. Webb. Flying Officers: N. J. P. Tult, R. S, F. Wright. R.A.F. REGIMENT. Flying Officers: G. E. Barrett, B. M. Gibson, J. D. Spurway. R. H. Todd. AIRCRAFT CONTROL BRANCH. Squadron Leader: A. R. Del. Inniss, D.F.C. ' Flight Lieutenants: D. G. Bickford-Smith. : G. M. I Tweedie. PHYSICAL FITNESS BRANCH. Flight Lieutenant: J. W. A. McCarthy. Reunion ROYAL AIR FORCE Stations Hum,.Harwell, and Riven hall, 38 Group Headquarters and Airborne Forces Olrf Comrades' Association announce the third annual reunion and general meet- ing at the Duke of York's Headquarters,- Chelsea, on March 5th, 194Q, at 6.30. p.m. Apply to Secretary, \V. Scrivens, Esq., 54, Lombard Street, EC.3.
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
