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1951
1951 - 2313.PDF
640 FLIGHT ' SIGNINC-OFF: Their Royal Highnesses Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh sign the guest log-book of the Royal Canadian Air Force C-5 Cana- dair North Star) in which they journeyed 4,200 miles round Canada without incident and to a split-second schedule. These two exceptionally fine portraits of the Royal couple are the work of FjO. L. Walker, photographer in the R.C.A.F. Public Relations Branch. FROM ALL QUARTERS Good News? " AN announcement of considerable importance to the future of **• the flying-club movement" was due to be made yesterday, November 22nd, by Mr. J. S. Maclay, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation. It was to be given out at a meeting at Londonderry House. The information that the announcement was to be made was given last week-end by the Association of British Aero Clubs and Centres, and aroused eager anticipation in all concerned. The possibility of a subsidy, or of a total abolition of fuel tax, or both, has long been discussed; whether the news concerned these desirable things, or something altogether different, will be known by the time these words appear. Overdue SOME months ago, there appeared in the correspondencecolumns of Flight several strongly expressed opinions on the inadequacy of insurance cover and rates of pay for flying instructors. Now comes news that the Industrial Disputes Tri- bunal has laid down salary scale and insurance cover minima for pilots and flying instructors at Reserve and basic flying training schools. The order will be retrospective in its effect from June 1st, 1951. The minimum salary for instructors is to be £750 a year for a probationary period of not more than six months, thereafter rising immediately to £850 with subsequent yearly increments of £50 up to a maximum of £1,050. The staff pilots' scale is £50less at all levels than that laid down for instructors. Pay for existing staff will be on the basis of length of service with presentemployers. The insurance minimum both for staff pilots and flying instructors is in the capital sum of £3,000. New C.F.I, for A.S.T. ANEW appointment at Air Service Training, Ltd., isannounced by the parent company, the Hawker Siddeley Group : Taking over the duties of C.F.I, at Hamble is W/C. H. A. C. Stratton, A.F.C., who for the past 17 months has been chief instructor and general manager of the Royal Pakistan Air Force school at Mauripur, which is also operated by A.S.T. W/C. Stratton first joined the R.A.F. in 1923, at the age of 18. He qualified as a sergeant pilot in 1927 and was posted to No. 45 Bomber Squadron in the Middle East. In January 1931 he became an instructor at the R.A.F. College at Cranwell. During his time on the staff of the Central Flying School, Wit- tering (1932-1937) he was a member of the famous C.F.S. inverted formation flying team which provided one of the high- spots at the Hendon displays. In 1943 he went to Canada to serve as chief instructor and commanding officer of various Service flying training schools, and in 1945 he was appointed to command Shellingford, an A.S.T.-run R.A.F. station. s Demobilized in March 1947, W/C. Stratton went to Hamble, but returned to the Service again, to command of Watchfield, the A.S.T.-operated R.A.F. Beam Approach School, from 1949 t0 1950. He now succeeds S/L. B. R. Tribe, A.F.C., at Hamble; S/L. Tribe has moved to Ansty, near Coventry, as chief instructor at No. 2 R.A.F. Basic Flying Training School, recently established by A.S.T. In the interim between the two appointments, S/L. G. C. Webb, A.F.C., has acted as C.F.I, at Hamble. JUST A RAMP: Stung to action by our recent publication of a picture showing a motor-coach entering the Blackburn and General Aircraft Universal Freighter, Auster Aircraft have released this striking photo- graph taken beneath the tail of their "new Gulliver Freighter—hitherto a well-kept secret." The Gulliver's tail unit, it will be noticed, bears a marked resemblance to that of the Auster Ambulance/Freighter, we seem to have seen the double-decker bus somewhere before; could it have been at a model-engineering exhibition ? W/C. Stratton
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