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1960
1960 - 0217.PDF
Seen at the Royal Aero Club air racing dinner reported in last week's issue; air racing champion Capt N. T. Baldwick, Geoffrey Rippon, MP, • ' and King's Cup winner A. J. Spiller Bermuda's Director of Civil Aviation, Wg Cdr E. M. Ware, with his Luscombe 8A seaplane VR-BAK. He bought it for £100 and rebuilt it himself (see news item in column 1) Sport and Business AT THE SOVIET EMBASSY, London, on February 3 a colour; film of the 1957 Aviation Day display at Tushino was shown to a group of Royal Aero Club members. The film, which has beengiven to the club by the Central Civil Aero Club of the USSR, showed glider and parachuting events as well as aeroplane andhelicopter demonstrations, all of an extremely high standard in both airmanship and photography. In exchange Lord Brabazonhanded over a copy of the Shell film High-speed Flight, which the Royal Aero Club has given to the Soviet club. TWO YEARS AGO Bermuda's Director of Civil Aviation, WgCdr E. M. Ware, spotted a rotting 1946 Luscombe 8A seaplane near the Colony's airfield. The owner was delighted to part withit for the sum of £100, and the DCA set about rebuilding it. In his own workshop he made a completely new tailplane, re-worked themain structural bulkheads and the Edo floats, replaced large sections of skin, installed six-channel VHF, a directional gyro andother instruments, and overhauled the Continental 75 h.p. engine and metai prop. The ARB inspected the restoration, pronouncedthemselves 100 per cent satisfied, and six months after beginning the rebuild the DCA was airborne in his new executive floatplane.Sine? then, he told a Flight staff member recently in Bermuda, he has used it a good deal for hopping around the islands onbusiness and on pleasure, and he has also completed a photo- graphic survey of the island from 7,000ft on behalf of the BermudaGovernment. He installed a war-surplus K20 vertical camera behind the seats, with remote control and levelling apparatusbetween the seats, and took altogether 169 pictures. The survey has helped such projects as re-afforestation planning, and therehas been quite a large demand for prints. The DCA has also chartered his aeroplane on a number of occasions to commercialphotographers and others, thus helping with the running costs. His eight-year-old son David "flies it extremely well," he told us, though of course not on landing or take-off, and only undersupervision in the air. The DCA's reputation as a practical aeronautical engineer aswell as the Colony's senior civil aviation administrator is the subject of several local stories. One has it that when a Viscountwas delayed at the airport with mechanical trouble the DCA was observed, coat off, in the vitals of the aircraft helping to put thingsright. There are not, we imagine, many DCAs whose enthusiasm for aviation extends to these extremes. IRISH AIR CHARTER LTD, the Dublin-based agents for Piperand Lycoming, are moving to Kidlington Airport, Oxford, to join Vigors Aviation Ltd, an associate company. Founded in January1957 by T. A. Vigors, IAC operated a Piper Apache on charter work until 1958 and has since concentrated on aircraft sales. LORD BRABAZON OF TARA is expected to be the guest ofhonour at the annual liberation air rally to be organized by the Channel Islands Aero Club on May 13-15. At the club's recenta.g.m. it was reported that almost 600 hours were flown during 1959^ RETROSPECT _-i- From "Flight" of February 12, 1910 Women's Aerial League (227, Strand, W.C.): A very successfulgathering was held at the Criterion Restaurant on the afternoon of the 3rd inst., at which Mrs. Hutton received the guests, who wereafterwards entertained to tea. During the meeting Mr. C. C. Turner gave a short address, explaining the objects of the League, anddrawing special attention to the national need for adequate aerial defence. He said that England was behind Germany, and to be oneyear behind was as bad as being fifty years behind. THEN AND N OW Gipsy Moths at Marsden, Gloucestershire in 1928, and TigerMoths and a Turbulent at Redhill, Surrey in 1960, each accom- panied by a group of light-aircraft enthusiasts. One other featurewhich the photographs below have in common is Mr Norman Jones, seen on the extreme left in each picture. With him in the 1928 shot are Nigel Norman, Alan Muntz, Dr Whitehead Reidand Alan Butler, while 32 years later his colleagues are members of the Tiger Club and (in the rear row) of Imperial CollegeGliding Club. Redhill is the operating base for both of these clubs; Marsden was the home of Lady Norman.
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