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FLIGHT. 22 June 1950 747 R.A.F. DISPLAY NEWS Admission Prices : "Static Show" Exhibits : The Cooper Trophy Race THIS journal is receiving a number of enquiries concerningadmission to the Royal Air Force Display at Farnborough on Friday, July 7th, and Saturday, July 8th. For the benefitof prospective visitors who wish to make their bookings in advance—and in view of the crowd to be expected, such acourse is clearly wise—we give hereunder the prices of admission: — Boxes (open), Nos. 1 to 617, £6 (single seats ^1); 618 to 917,£4 10s (15s); 918 to 1217, £3 15s (12s 6d). Standing enclosures, 10s and 3s (children under 14, half-price); car park labels,10s; coach labels, £1. Proceeds go to help a particularly deserving cause—the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.js. The controlling ticket agents are Alfred Hays, Ltd., 26, Old i, Bond Street, London, W.i (Regent 4040), and tickets may beobtained from them or from the usual ticket agencies in any part of the country. Applicants should remember to specifyclearly whether they require their tickets for the Friday or the Saturday. The Display begins at 10.30 a.m. on each of the two days,the ground exhibitions and aircraft parks being open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Holders of car labels are advised to arriveby 12.30 p.m. Several of the principal aeronautical organizations will havetheir own private marquees at the Display and are organizing their own travel and booking arrangements; among them arethe Royal Aero Club and the R.A.F. Reserves Club, members of which will be able to obtain all necessary details from therespective secretaries. * * * Advance details are also available of the "static show," tobe held in hangars at various points round the airfield; it will be open, as mentioned above, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on eachof the two days. The exhibition—the largest of its kind ever staged by theR.A.F.—will show many aspects of Service activity. There will be a fighter control unit, gun turrets which can be operatedby the public, photographic and radio equipment, sectioned engines, ejector seats, automatic pilots, Link trainers and awide range of historic and present-day aircraft types which may be inspected at close quarters. In some cases visitors will be able to enter the aircraft and see the crew stations.Officers, N.C.O.s and airmen will be present to act as guides and explain the exhibits. .. .. »' •' • • •• Flights portrayed in one hangar, to be known as "The Hallof Achievement," will include the Schneider Trophy victory of 1931; the long-distance records of 1933 and 1938; thealtitude record of 1936; the navigation research flights of the Aries; the air speed record of 1946; the London to Cape Townrecord of 1947, the Berlin Air Lift of 1948-49; the first jit aircraft crossing of the Atlantic of 1948; and the Antarcicflights of 1949-50 * * * * ' . What promises to be the most amusing of the less seriousitems will be a " helicopter circus'' by three Hoverfly 2s which, dressed as elephants, will perform on decorated standsunder the orders of n ringmaster. * # * Flight has received several enquiries from readers as towhether the use of cameras will be permitted. We understand from the Air Ministry that there will be no restriction. * * • On the first day of the Display, the Cooper Trophy Race, anannual contest for R.Aux.A.F. squadrons, will be flown over two laps of a five-sided, 72-mile course. Two eliminatingheats have already taken place, one to select No. 12 Group pilots and the other for No. 11 Group. The No. 12 Group heat, in which 13 squadrons competed,was flown at Linton-on-Ouse on June 4th, when the following pilots qualified: 605 Squadron, F/L. P. M. R. Walton (Vampirei); 607 Squadron, Pit. II M. Butcher (Spitfire 22); 613 Squad- ron, F/L. R. A. Wigelsworth (Spitfire 22); 603 Squadron, F/L.J. E. Storrar (Spitfire 22); 609 Squadron, S/L. A. Hudson (Spitfire 16). On June nth, at West Mailing, six out of the seven squad-rons of No. 11 Group competed, the first three pilots qualifying for the final. Results were: 1, F/O. D. de Villiers (Meteor 3);2, F/O. E. B. Smith (Vampire 1); 3, F/L. C. C. McCarthy- Jones (Vampire 3). AIR HORSE TRAGEDY F is with profound regret that we have to record the deaths,on June 13th, of Mr. H. A. Marsh, Mr. F. J. Cable, and Mr. J. Unsworth. All three were involved in an accident,which occurred near Eastleigh, to the Cierva Air Horse. No official information is as yet available, but an eye-witnessquoted in the first reports claimed to have seen a rotor blade break away. The Cierva Company wish it to be known that no change inthe existing programme is envisaged, and work on the second Air Horse and the twin-engined version—the W.T.11—willontinue. Henry Alan Marsh, A.F.C., A.F.R.Ae.S., manager and chieftest pilot of the Cierva Autogiro Co., Ltd., was recognized as the most experienced rotary-wing pilot in the world. Bornin 1901, he served in the Royal Air Force from 1918 to 1930 and then became assistant instructor to the Hampshire AeroGlub, where he met Juan de la Cierva, and became interested in Autogiros. In 1932 he joined the staff of the Cierva Com-pany, and became chief flying instructor at the Cierva Auto- giro Flying School at Han worth. From 1933 onwards, AlanMarsh assisted Cierva with experimental flying, and also carried out the same duty for G. and J. Weir, until 1939, when he was recalled to the R.A.F. and wasassigned to the experimental flying staff of the R.A.E. at Farnborough.In 1941 he took over No. 529 Squadron from W/C. Brie, theSquadron being equipped with Autogiros, and its duties being con-cerned chiefly with radar calibra- tion. He left the Service in 194Gwith the rank of squadron leader, and rejoined the Cierva Company,his post-war duties having been chiefly concerned with the experi-mental flying of the W.9, W.u and W.14 Cierva helicopters. A mem-ber of the instructors' pane] of examiners for the G.A.P.A.N., and S/L. F. J. Cable chairman of the Helicopter Associa-tion of Great Britain from 1946 to 1949, Alan Marsh was a universallyliked and respected figure, not only in helicopter circles, but in thewider field of aviation generally. Frederick John Cable was aMinistry of Supply test pilot at A.F.E.E., Beaulieu, and his flyingcareer was probably unique in that he had never flown a fixed-wing air-craft. Born in 1915, " Jeep " Cable, as he was always known, was taughtto fly at the age of 16 by Alan Marsh, and as soon as he could, atthe age of 17, obtained his pilot's licence—for rotary-wing aircraftonly. Thereafter, he joined the ' ' Cierva Company and became, in turn, a flying instructor, stay-ing with the company as an engineer "and instructor until 1939, when he became engineer and pilot in charge of experi-mental flying with G. and J. Weir, Ltd. At the outbreak of war he went to Duxford as a civilian pilot, but was commis-sioned in the R.A.F. in 1941, finally becoming the Commanding Officer of the Research, Development and Training Unit forRotary Wing Aircraft A.F.E.E., Beaulieu. He left the Service in August, 1947. and took up a civilian appointment with theMinister of Supply as chief helicopter test pilot at A.F.E.E. Joseph Unsworth was 41 years of age, and joined the CiervaCompany in 1947. He had considerable experience as a flight engineer, having served in that capacity in the flight-testing ofthe Lancasters produced by Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft, Ltd., during the war and, subsequently, in all the experimental trialsof that company's Concordia aircraft. With the winding- up of Cunliffe-Owens, he joined the Cierva Company and hadserved as flight engineer in all the experimental and develop- ment flight trials of the Air Horse. To the bereaved wives and families we extend our deepestsympathy
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