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THURSDAY APRIL 2 3, 1964 Number 2876 Volume 85 Official Organ of th« Royal Aero Club First Aeronautical Weekly in IN World Founded in 1MW Editor-in-Chief MAURICE A. 8MITH DFC Editor H. F. KINO MBE Technical Editor W,. T.OUN8TON Air Transport Editor J. M. RAMSDEN Production Editor ROY CASEY Managing Director H. N. PRIAULX MBE In this issue World News 630 Air Commerce 633 Missiles and Spaceflight 64O Service Aviation 646 Sport and Business 647 Straight and Level 648 Design for Mach 2.2 649 Letters 656 Aircraft for NATO 658 "Air-CUshion Vehicles" supplement Hanover 8how Guide 661 Miffe Transport Publications Ltd., DorsetHouse, Stamford Street, London, SE1; telephone Waterloo 3333 (Telex 25137).Telegrams Flightpres London Telex. Annual subscriptions: Home £4 15s.Overseas £5 5s. Canada and USA *15.00. Second Class Mail privileges authorized8t New York, NY. Branch Offices: Coventry, 8-10 Corpora-tion Street; telephone Coventry 25210. Birmingham, King Edward House, NewStreet, Birmingham 2; telephone Mid- land 7191. Manchester, 260 Deansgate,Manchester 3; telephone Blackfriars 4412 or Deansgate 3595. Glasgow, 123 HopeStreet, Glasgow CZ; telephone Central 1265-fl, Bristol, 11 Marsh Street, Bristol1; telephone Bristol 21491/2. New York, NY: Thomas Skinner & Co(Publishers) Ltd, 111 Broadway 6; telephone Digby 9-1197. © IBffe Transport Publications Ltd,1964. Permission to reproduce illustra- tions and letterpress can be granted onlyunder written agreement. Brief extracts or comments may be made with dueacknowledgement. "By Famous Hanover City . . ."T HE legend of the Pied Piper, from Browning's rendering of which we take our title, tells of a sort of latter-day Orpheus—a vagabond who was able to lure rats and little children to the waters of the Weser by the magic of his music. The lure to the same part of Germany during the next few days will be the fifth Hanover Aviation Show, an international event which amply merits the treatment we are according it in the present and the forthcoming issues. But our borrowed title is trebly happy because there will be pied Pipers present in abundance, buzzing around with Cessnas, Beeches and Beagles; because there will be an Orpheus of even later days (with many a compatriot named after some god or river); and because the famous "Weser" Flugzeugbau GmbH is now an eminent partner in the consortium which is bringing to fruition some of Germany's most ambitious aerospace projects—all to be represented at the show. Staff members now look forward to glimpsing the waters of the Weser not only through the windows of the editorial Beechcraft, but through those of several new types of aircraft which we expect shortly to be air-testing in the land of Lilienthal. A Pilot Pilot Scheme [ O single decision underlines more emphatically the Ministry of Aviation's recent change of heart towards private flying—from hostility to tentative encouragement—than does last week's announcement (see page 631) that a trial "Junior Wings" scheme, awarding flying club scholarships to selected sixth-formers, is to be run this summer. The scheme, to operate in four localities, is "to measure the response and study the problems which may arise out of a nationally based scheme," recommended last year by the Hamilton Committee on Pilot Training. For the first time since the 1930s youth is offered flying training by the Government without para-military (Cadet Forces' scholarships) or vocational (College of Air Training) strings attached. Equally important, such training is now to be available to girls, which in some small measure may contribute to the eventual disappearance of the incredulous "flying typist" and "mother takes the air" news stories to which we are still subjected 53 years after Mrs Maurice Hewlett and 34 years after Amy Johnson's antipodean flight. If we have one criticism, it is that only ten hours' flying—normally sufficient to solo—is to be provided under this year's pilot scheme. This will leave recipients to find the cost of at least another 20 hours if they are to obtain their PPL. While it might be argued that things should not be made too easy for the young in achieving worthwhile objectives, it must be remembered that the scholarship winners will be dependent school- children and not the affluent, transistorized, motorized and sartorially "geared" teenagers of whom we read too much. But this, as we said, is a pilot scheme, naturally subject to modifications if it is to be adopted nation-wide. It is welcome as a small but intelligent Government step in building again the airmindedness which thrived in Britain in the 1930s. Government investment in private flying training paid dividends a thousandfold at the end of that decade. It is no less likely to yield rewards in this more mechanized age.
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