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1950
1950 - 0135.PDF
fJJGHT, 19 January 1950 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News, and Announcements Chipmunk Deliveries '"PHE introduction of the de Havillandi- Chipmunk trainer into units of the R.A.F.V.R. has certainly been one ofthe most eagerly awaited events among Reserve pilots. Some time ago Flightannounced that production of the new trainer, at Hatfield, was well ahead andthat the R.A.F. had taken delivery of several machines. The Air Ministry states that the orderin which units will receive. Chipmunks has been decided. Delivery is to beginthis month as follows: Oxford University Air Squadron; Cambridge UniversityAir Squadron; Reserve Command Instru- ment Training Flight, Honiley; No. 22Reserve Flying School, Cambridge; Edinburgh University Air Squadron;University of London Air Squadron; No. 18 Reserve Flying School, Fairoaks;jsTo. 1 Reserve Flying School, Pans- lianger; and Leeds University Air Squad-ron. -;._ .,, • ^" ; . R.A.F. Appointments THE Air Ministry announces thatA.V.-M. W. L. Dawson, C.B., lo.B.E., D.S.O., has been appointedfR.A.F. instructor at the Imperial Defence College. Since October, 1948, A.V.-M.iDawson has been Commandant erf the [School of Land/Air Warfare at Oldfoarum, and for two years previously was VOX.. Air H.Q., Levant. He was for-irneiiv Director of Plans at the Air MEASURE OF INDEPENDENCE : Although a glider cannot, oi course, take off without outside assistance, it invariably clears the proverbial 5Cft screen we!l in advance of the more heavily loaded tug aircraft. This new view of an Airspeed Horsa " unsticking " was secured from the rear turret of the towing Halifax during tests at Christchurch. Ministry, where he served during thegreater part of the war. Born in 1902, A.V.-M. Dawson was commissioned fromCranwell in 1922. A successor to A.V-M. S. F. Vincent asA.O.C., No. 11 Group, Fighter Com- mand, has -been announced: A.Cdre.T. G. Pike, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C., who takes the acting rank of Air Vice-Mar-shal. A.V-M. Pike spent last year as a student of the Imperial Defence College,and was formerly Director of Opera- tional Requirements for two years. During the war he served in the Direc-torate of Organization at the Air Minis- try until early in 1941, when he wasgiven command of No. 219 (Fighter) Squadron. Within a few weeks of takingcommand he was awarded the D.F.C. for his skill in intercepting enemy aircraftover this country at night. He destroyed one on his first patrol and soon after-wards he destroyed three more and was awarded a bar to the D.F.C. Later inthe same year he went to 11 Group H.Q. as an air staff officer for nigljt operationduties. A.V-M. Pike, who is 43, was commissioned from Cranwell in 1925. With the acting rank of Air Vice- ^ GROUNDWORK : To encourage appreciation of the conditions under which Pilots receive R/T communications, Wrens under training at the Naval Air Signals School, Lee-on-Solent, are given air experience in Naval Avro Ansons from Hamb'e. News of other W.R.N.S. trades in Naval Aviation is given on this page. Marshal, A. Cdre. YV. E. Barnes,M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., becomes Principal Medical Officer of Technical TrainingCommand. Until recently he was Deputy Director-General of R.A.F. Medical Ser-vices. It is also announced that G/C. B. C.Yarde. C.B.E., who commanded K.A.F. Station Gatow, Berlin, from July, 1947,until November, 1949, has been appointed Deputy Director of Personal Services (3)at the Air Ministry. This Branch is con- cerned with conditions of service as theyaffect the interests of airmen as indi- viduals. During G/C. Yarde's term as StationCommander, Gatow grew from a quiet airfield dealing with only a few passengeraircraft each day to the busiest airport in the world (at the height of the Berlin AirLift it frequently handled more than 900 aircraft movements a day). His serviceswere recognized by the award of the C.B.E. in the 1949 New Year HonoursList. His predecessor as D.D.P.S (3). G/C. R. T. Gething, O.B.E., A.F.C., hasbeen appointed Group Captain in charge of operations and training at Head-quarters, Far East Air Force, Singapore. New "P.C." Regulations -R ULES governing the selectionof serving R.A.F. personnel for permanent commissions lay down thatcandidates, other than direct entry uni- versity graduates and cadets, will nowbe recommended once yearly. Officers will be recommended beforeApril 30th, and lists of those selected will be published early in October each year.Aircrew and regular airmen may be re- commended at any time. Both officersand airmen who are university graduates serving on National Service engagementsmay apply for permanent commissions without waiting to be recommended, asin the case of direct entrants to perman.- ent commissions from the universities.The normal upper age limit of 30 for officers, aircrew and airmen and thelower age limit of 25 for aircrew and air- men will not necessarily be appliedrigidly for the time being. W.R.N.S. Re-organization FOLLOWING satisfactory reports onthe work and capacity of W.R.N.S. aircraft mechanics, it has been decidedthat in future they will receive the same training and, so far as physical limita-tions permit, undertake the same duties in Naval air Stations as men in themechanic (A) and (B) categories of the Naval Airman Branch. Thev will be classified as air mechanics
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