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AIR PILOT MASTER 29/11/18 10:29 Page 1 2 Airpilot DECEMBER 2018 ISSUE 30 AIR PILOT DECEMBER 2018:AIR PILOT MASTER 29/11/18 10:29 Page 2 AIR PILOT DECEMBER 2018:AIR PILOT MASTER 29/11/18 10:29 Page 1 2 AirPilot DECEMBER 2018 ISSUE 30 AIR PILOT DECEMBER 2018:AIR PILOT MASTER 29/11/18 10:29 Page 2 Diary DECEMBER 2018 AIR PILOT 5th AST/APT Dowgate Hill THE HONOURABLE 13th GP&F Cutlers’ Hall COMPANY OF 13th Carol Service St. Michael’s, Cornhill AIR PILOTS incorporating Air Navigators JANUARY 2019 22nd APBF AGM & lunch RAF Club PATRON: His Royal Highness 24th Court Election and Dinner Cutlers’ Hall The Prince Philip 24th GP&F Cutlers’ Hall Duke of Edinburgh KG KT GRAND MASTER: His Royal Highness FEBRUARY 2019 The Prince Andrew 12th Lunch Club RAF Club Duke of York KG GCVO 14th GP&F Cutlers’ Hall MASTER: 25th Aptitude Testing RAFC Cranwell Captain Colin Cox FRAeS CLERK: Paul J Tacon BA FCIS Incorporated by Royal Charter. Please note that meetings scheduled for Dowgate Hill may be relocated to our new A Livery Company of the City of London. office depending on the date of our move. PUBLISHED BY: The Honourable Company of Air Pilots, Dowgate Hill House, 14-16 Dowgate Hill, London EC4R 2SU. VISITS PROGRAMME Please see the flyers accompanying this issue of Air Pilot or contact Liveryman David EDITOR: Curgenven at [email protected]. Paul Smiddy BA (Ec on), FCA These flyers can also be downloaded from the Company's website. EMAIL: [email protected] Please check on the Company website for visits that are to be confirmed. FUNCTION PHOTOGRAPHY: Gerald Sharp Photography View images and order prints on-line. TELEPHONE: 020 8599 5070 GOLF CLUB EVENTS EMAIL: [email protected] Please check on Company website for latest information WEBSITE: www.sharpphoto.co.uk PRINTED BY: Printed Solutions Ltd 01494 478870 Except where specifically stated, none of the material in this issue is to be taken as expressing the opinion of the Court of the Company. EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS: The copy deadline for the February 2019 edition of Air Pilot is 1 January 2019. The address is: 14-16 Dowgate Hill House, London EC4R 2SU. Our telephone number remains unchanged TELEPHONE: 020 7404 4032 Cover photo: The Master gives his address at the Trophies & Awards Banquet EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.airpilots.org (Gerald Sharp Photography) AIR PILOT DECEMBER 2018:AIR PILOT MASTER 29/11/18 10:29 Page 3 A message from your Editor... I was hoping that this issue would be the only journal you read this month – on paper or on online – with the possible exception of Bridge Monthly or Gardeners’World, that does not mention that b***y ‘B’ word. I write this in one of the most turbulent weeks for British politics and society that I can recall.The nation is at a cross-roads; it is perhaps beyond irony that I am writing this having just returned from an aviation conference.Almost fifty pilots, from 23 countries, from Europe (both within and without the EU), and the Near & Middle East, conversed, socialised, and made decisions and plans with near perfect ease. It hardly needs adding that this was done without the benefit of any input from politicians. Indeed the nearest we got to the latter, the FAI, were viewed as a necessary background presence, whose influence was to be minimised. Pilots are good at making decisions – it is how we are trained! The conference, l ike most of international aviation, was unsurprisingly conducted in the English language. It brought home to me our good fortune to be native English speakers, and my admiration for the linguistic skills (largely impressive!) of my fellow aviators. It was a useful nudge that, in my opinion, it behoves we native English speakers to participate fully in the administration and decision-making of such international fora. In my last editorial I sought more material from glid er pilots. I do not suppose it was a case of cause and effect, but you will read in this issue a piece on the wonders of gliding. If by any chance you were a touch cynical about the scope and scale of our scholarship activity, Fred Bull will set you right. He has been a recipient of a grant towards a gliding instructor course; he writes very movingly of the skills this has so enjoyably given him, and how he hopes this will provide a platform for a successful career in commercial aviation. As was the case when I recently took part in a graveside service with some delightful schoolchildren to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice, it perhaps makes one ponder that the next (or next but one) generation deserve a better legacy than we seem presently to be offering. Paul Smiddy - Editor Contents News Round Up & Gazette . .4 The Master’s Message and New Zealand Tour Report . .6 From the Desk of the DAA . .8 Trophies and Awards Banquet . .10 Sir Frederick Tymms Memorial Lecture . .19 Her name was Casey . .21 Modular or Integrated,The Fruits of a Scholarship . .. 22 Company Visit to Biggin Hill . .24 Duxford’s Battle of Britain Air Show . .27 Company Academic Bursary Awards 2018 . .30 Book Review . .32 3 AIR PILOT DECEMBER 2018:AIR PILOT MASTER 29/11/18 10:29 Page 4 News Round Up MOMENTOUS WW2 VISIT series of hollows mark out the impact point of the engines, wings and cockpit. On reaching the site, Air Cdre Charles said “What a fine dividing line it was between my fate and that of my crewmates”. Charles had flown in several missions before this time becoming a PoW at Stalag Luft 3 (Zagan, Poland) to which he has returned many times with current Air Commodore (ret’d) Charles Clarke serving RAF personnel. He joked with The IPM representing OBE visited the crash site of his airport staff about not having to show his the Master attended the Lancaster in October, 74 years after he boarding card when he departed from City Remembrance Service was shot down on a raid over southern RAF Coningsby on that fateful mission. Germany.On the night of 25th February, The memorial to his three colleagues 1944 Charles, then aged 20, was the stands just a few hundred yards from the bomb aimer in a 619 Sqn aircraft near crash; they were pilot Fg Off Erie Stuttgart when his Lancaster was shot Williams (Royal Canadian Air Force),Air Gunners Sgt William Walch, and Flt Sgt down by a German night fighter. James Glazebrook (Royal Australian Air Several months ago Air Cdre Charles Force) – a truly Commonwealth crew. Clarke received a piece of metal in the The local Mayor, Burgermeister Markus post that was from his aircraft with an Wendel of Bad Teinach-Zavelstein, invitation to visit the memorial that the extended warm welcome to Charles and local German people had built. Charles, colleagues. accompanied by friends Lt Col (ret’d) Phil Westwood RE, Monika Parker from SCHOLARSHIPS Zagan, Poland, and Squadron Leader Tim Whilst the provision of scholarships has become central to the beneficence of Barlow, paid their respects to this fallen the Company and its trusts, it is worth looking over what else is out there for crew. budding pilots. Given the decline in youth aviation opportunities offered by the RAF, it is perhaps fortuitous there has been a burgeoning of scholarships in In 1944 Air Cdre Charles was lucky recent years.The following list is not exhaustive. enough to bail out over the Black Forest. The Air League offers c100 essentially ‘air experience’ scholarships and Local German enthusiasts Gunther John bursaries, including engineering (short industrial placements) and gliding. and Ingo Hauck recently discovered the TAG Farnborough Airport offers one PPL (managed by us), as does Cotswold site where the Lancaster plunged into the Airport (aka Kemble) and London Biggin Hill.There is also a privately-funded PPL scholarship at EGKB.The Light Aircraft Association provides five bursaries forest. This was Charles’ first visit to the offering £1,500 towards flying training. The British Womens Pilots Association crash site. Its remote location made access offers 3 flying bursaries (not full PPL) and 2 fully-funded ATPL ground school difficult. This led to a special moment courses.The British Micro light Aircraft Association has aYoung Person’s Flying when assistance was given to Charles by Bursary. Finally FSDP (Flying Scholarships for Disabled People (FSDP), familiar to the local fire department. The father of many in the Company, does what it says on the tin, and has an extensive the fireman with Charles had also programme of PPL-related scholarships All these schemes have different witnessed the aircraft fall from the sky 74 timetables, although the bulk work on the understandable assumption that years ago. His grandchildren aged 13 and flying training will be largely focussed on the summer months. 8 years both attended the ceremony. A 4 AIR PILOT DECEMBER 2018:AIR PILOT MASTER 29/11/18 10:29 Page 5 A REMINDER OF A WONDERFUL UK SUMMER – RIAT 2018 Photos by Freeman Will Eeles Jordanian Air Force CAP team Will Eeles reliving AAC days “There I was at 200 feet ” GAZETTE APPROVED BYTHE COURT 22 NOVEMBER 2018 ADMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE COURT RESIGNATIONS As Upper Freeman 22 NOVEMBER 2018 Christopher BENN Terence BUCKLAND REGRADE Stephen BURNARD (AUS) Marc BIGAO UETTE (NA) To Livery Richard HAYLEY (HK) Atholl BUCHAN (OS) Nicholas HOLMAN Stephen BRIDGEWATER John CLIFFE Robert LEROUX (NA) David ABRAHAMS Michael LING Su INGLE Lorraine EARL (NZ) Taniya MORRIS Ian STEWART Sophie FREESTONE John MURRAY Alistair BEATON David HILL (NA) John NYREN (NA) Carl BODDY Gregory RULFS (HK) Sidney KWONG Michael HOOD (NA) Paul SUTHERLAND (AUS) Patrick SHERRIFF Richard JENNISON Craig WELLS (AUS) Michael HOLLAND Jason LAWLEY Benjamin WHITWORTH Ian MURNING Daniel MARTIN As Freeman As Upper Freeman Jane MIDDLETON Anne HUGHES
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