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FLIGHT Internationa/, 9 January 1969 successor in the kindness stakes. I believe that company really does deserve your admiration, as Eagle did in many respects, but for their sake, abuse them occasionally! I am watching your columns closely, and any praise for my future (Australian) employers 1 shall regard as the kiss of death. Pangbourne, Berks NICK WEST Nostalgia No 33 SIR,—Two "Sweet Nostalgias" to bring joy to my declining years! First, No 3 and now No 33 (Flight, December 19). The place, overhead Duxford; the date, June 17, 1935; the squadron, No 19 Fighter; the photo grapher, John Yoxall of Flight; the photographic air craft, a dual Bulldog; the pilot, me; the occasion, preparation for the Mildenhall Review. Dig out some more! Liverpool 24 t. s. w. SIGNAL PS—The port wings at upper right of photograph belonged to one Fit Lt H. Broadhurst [now deputy managing director of Hawker Siddeley Aviation—Ed]. SIR,—No 19 Sqn, RAF, practising formation flying in preparation for King George V's Jubilee Review of the Royal Air Force held on July 6, 1935, at RAF Mildenhall and RAF Duxford. The situation is around Duxford; the aircraft are Gloster Gauntlet Is; the serial numbers are K4087, K.4088, K.4090, K4084, K4083, K4089, K4085. Fit Lt Harry Broadhurst (later to be Air Chief Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst, GCB, KBE, DSO, DFC, AFC) was one of the squadron's flight commanders. The other flight commander was Fit Lt V. Croome, who became the squadron commander a year later, in July 1936. This particular picture was featured in F. W. Lanchester's article on Formation Flying and appeared on page 288 of March 28, 1940, issue of Flight. Amersham, Bucks J. w. WATERS 69 1939, 15 flights by the Short C-class flying-boats, Cabot and Caribou, were refuelled without incident from Gander by Hugh Johnson after take-off from Botwood, Newfoundland, for Foynes, Ireland. A sixteeenth flight did not require air refuelling because of a high following wind. AFRL, operating from Shannon and flown by Geoffrey Tyson, refuelled the flying-boats on 16 occasions after take-off from Foynes for Botwood.- The backer-up tanker was the prototype AW23 troop-carrier, which was later developed into the Whitley and which, like the proto type Harrow, never received civil registration letters. Harrows AFRG and AFRH were handed over to the RCAF soon after the beginning of the war. AFRL and the AW23 were wrecked by a bombing attack on Ford, Sussex, on a Sunday lunch-time early in 1940. The flying-boats Cabot and Caribou were flown by the Navy to Narvik, where they were both destroyed by enemy action. Wimbome, Dorset L. CASTLEMAINE, for Flight Refuelling Ltd Odd Lamp Out SIR,—I've only just had the pleasure of reading M. A. Kelly's "Acrobatic Look-back" in your issue dated November 28, but I feel I must write to congratulate Gp Capt Bader on handing to Frances Macrae "a gold Toe H lamp." I wonder where he got it from? None of our lamps is missing, so far as 1 know, and anyway I can't recall a goldem one. There are a treasured few in silver and some historic ones in very base metal that were manu factured in prison camps like Changi Gaol, but so far as I know we never hit the gold standard. If anybody happened to photograph Frances Macrae with her unique trophy we'd love to have a copy. Then we might waggle our wings a bit in our own publica tion, Point Three—not to be confused with three-point landings. S3riously, though, it was nice to see a Toe H lamp being regarded as a gold award rather than as a standard of dimness beloved of all those Raffish types. We look on it rather that way ourselves—as an award, I mean, though applicable to our branches rather than indi viduals. And they don't get one until they've shown they mean business. Come to think of it, some of them perform some pretty miraculous manoeuvres on a mini mum of financial fuel. London EC3 P. c. CAMPBELL, Toe H No SAA 707-420S SIR,—Following Mainliner's article, "Pilot Error Again" (page 1054, Flight, December 26), 1 should like to point out that South African Airways do not operate 420-series aircraft. In fact, they have three 707-344s, two 707-344Bs and two 707-344Cs. The flap arrangement on their three 707-344s, however, is identical with that of all 420-series aircraft (the major difference being the engines); therefore, assuming the use of SAA's operating technique, the flap retraction settings with height should be as Mainliner suggests. Oxshott, Surrey DAVID JOHNSON Registrations to Order SIR,—1 think I can answer Mr Doran's letter in your December 26 issue. The prototype Harrow J9833, loaned to Flight Refuelling early in 1938 for the original Post Office trials over Southampton Water, was never given civil registration. Later, however, the company received three new Harrows, which were allotted the letters G-AFRG, AFRH and AFRL. So far as I can discover, no special effort was made to secure the letters AFRL, and this must have been a coincidence. AFRG and AFRH were shipped to Montreal in April 1939, re-erected there and flown to Gander by Hugh Johnson and Derek Atkinson. During the summer of DIARY Jan 9 RAeS Specialist Lecture: "Noise Problems of VTOL," by Herr M. Flemming and Herr Scholten; 4 Hamilton Place, London Wl , 6 p.m. Jan 9 RAeS Southend Branch: "Early Days of Flying," by Wg Cdr S. T. Freeman; No. I Committee Room, Southend-on-Sea Civic Centre, 7.45 p.m. Jan 9 City University Department of Aeronautics: "Aeronautics Fifty Years Ago," by Prof Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor; City University St John Street, London EC I. 1.30-2.30 p.m. Jan 13 RAeS Bedford Branch: "Aeronautical Research in the USSR," by Prof Dr G. A. Tokaty; The Hall, Mander College, Bedford, 8 p.m. Jan 14 RAeS Main Society Lecture at Prestwick: "Aviation Medicine," by Dr G. Bennett; Civic Theatre, Ayr, 7.45 p.m. Jan 14 RAeS Test Pilots' Group: "The Jetstream," by J. Allam; 4 Hamil ton Place, London Wl, 7 p.m. Jan 15 RAeS Rotorcraft Section: Half-day symposium, "Fan-lift in VTOL Design," by R. West, and "Mechanical Considerations in Heli copter Design," by J. S. Shapiro; 4 Hamilton Place, London Wl, 2.15 p.m. Jan 15 RAeS Bristol Branch: "Practical Use of Navigational Aids," by W. S. Inglefield; Bristol University Main Engineering Lecture Theatre, 7 p.m. Paris Air Show: May 29-June 8.
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