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OCTOBER 2013 N o . 2 0 1 THEGUILDOFAIRPILOTSANDAIRNAVIGATORS Guild Diary October 2013 2 Pilot Aptitude Assessment RAF Cranwell 10 6th General Purposes and Finance Committee Meeting Cobham House 15 4th Education and Training Committee Meeting Cobham House 22 Environment Committee Meeting Cobham House 23 Trophies and Awards Banquet Guildhall 26 Flyer Show Sofitel, Heathrow 29 Benevolent Fund Board of Trustees Meeting Cobham House THE GUILD OF AIR PILOTS AND November 2013 AIR NAVIGATORS 5 4th Technical and Air Safety Committee Meeting Cobham House 8 Silent Change Guildhall PATRON: 9 Lord Mayor's Show His Royal Highness 11 Lord Mayor's Banquet Guildhall The Prince Philip 14 7th General Purposes and Finance Committee Meeting Cobham House Duke of Edinburgh KG KT 14 4th Court Meeting Cutlers' Hall 14 Scholarships Presentation Cutlers' Hall GRAND MASTER: 28 Pilot Apptitude Tests RAF Cranwell His Royal Highness The Prince Andrew Duke of York KG GCVO December 2013 3 5th Education and Training Committee Meeting Cobham House MASTER: 5 New Members' Briefing Cobham House His Honour 13 8th General Purposes and Finance Committee Meeting Cobham House Judge T Owen 13 Guild Carol Service St Michael's Cornhill 13 Christmas Supper The Counting House 20 Guild Closes CLERK: Paul J Tacon BA FCIS January 2014 6 Guild Opens The Guild, founded in 1929, is a Livery 14 5th Technical and Air Safety Committee Meeting Cobham House Company of the City of London. 15 Trophy and Awards Committee Meeting Cobham House (Letters Patent 1956) 21 Benevolent Fund Board of Trustees AGM RAF Club PUBLISHED BY: 22 Environment Committee Meeting Cobham House The Guild of Air Pilots and Air 23 9th General Purposes and Finance Committee Meeting Cobham House Navigators, Cobham House, 9 Warwick 23 5th Court Meeting Cutlers' Hall Court, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5DJ. 23 Court Election Dinner Cutlers' Hall EDITOR: Group Captain T Eeles BA FRAeS February 2014 EMAIL: [email protected] 11 6th Education and Training Committee Meeting Cobham House 13 10th General Purposes and Finance Committee Meeting Cobham House FUNCTION PHOTOGRAPHY: Gerald Sharp Photography View images and order prints on-line. GUILD VISITS PROGRAMME TELEPHONE: 020 8599 5070 Please see the Flyers accompanying this and previous editions of Guild EMAIL: [email protected] News or contact Liveryman David Curgenven at [email protected]. WEBSITE: www.sharpphoto.co.uk These flyers can also be downloaded from the Guild website. 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 Guild. EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS: The copy deadline for the December 2013 edition of Guild News is 1 November 2013 and should be sent to: The Editor, Cover photo:A Pitts Special, photographed at rest on the ground during an Guild News, Cobham House, 9 Warwick Aerobatic Competition at Headcorn in 2012. Photograph courtesy Liveryman Court, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5DJ. Paul Smiddy, who recently attended a CAA conference on the use of Class G airspace. His report, on page11, will be of great interest to all GA pilots TELEPHONE: 020 7404 4032 FAX NO: 020 7404 4035 EMAIL: [email protected] 2 WEBSITE: www.gapan.org In this edition of Guild News Page 4 News Round Up Page 6 The Master’s Message The Master Visits North America Page 13 Guild of Aviation Artists Exhibition Page 14 North American Region - Giant Concrete Arrows Page 15 Guild Gliding Scholarship Page 9 Trophies and Awards Page 16 Sir Sefton Branker’s Private 2012 - 2013 Pilots Scholarship 2013 Page 10 Gazette Page 17 From the Desk of the Director of Aviation Affairs Page 11 CAA Airspace Conference Page 18 Bertie Vigrass - from Page 12 Moth Magnificence Swordfish to Attacker at Woburn 3 Ability and age are no barrier to participation as the courses are set to accommodate a wide range of experience so all Guild members are welcome to take part, as are guests - for whom there is a special prize - and non- racing supporters are particularly welcome. A reduced fee is payable for supporters to cover the off-slope entertainment. A team is a minimum of 3, maximum of 4 with the top 3 times counting towards the team trophy. There is no maximum number of teams a Company may enter. If this whets your appetite for something to GUILD LUNCHEON CLUB AND TYMMS do to support the Guild during the winter LECTURE. The third 2013 meeting of the months please contact Caroline Gough- Guild Luncheon Club took place at the RAF Cooper at [email protected] as she Club on 26th September, when Guild will be co-ordinating the Guild's entry. members and their guests gathered to be Entrants will be responsible for their own entertained after Luncheon by Roger Annett, travel and accommodation arrangements but author of the recently published book the organisers do have an appointed travel 'Borneo Boys' which describes the story of agent who can organise this if you prefer. helicopter pilots in action during the Indonesian Confrontation of 1962 -1966. BOMBER COMMAND CLASP AWARD. Roger Annett served with the RAF from 1959- On 19th March Livery-man John Cox DFC 1967 and has written on campaigns in was presented with the Bomber Command Borneo, Burma, and Afghanistan. Clasp by Prime Minister David Cameron at This highly popular event was followed in No.10 Downing Street. the evening by the annual Sir Frederick That day the Prime Tymms Lecture, given by Group Captain Minister presented the Dominic Toriati, RAF Chinook Force very first awards, newly Commander, the subject being 'The Chinook minted, to some Arctic Force on Operations, A Commander's Convoy survivors in the Perspective'. Thus the day was very much a morning and to twenty CAPTAIN JIM LOVELL USN IS TO BE day for rotary wing operations. four Bomber Command PRESENTED WITH GUILD AWARD OF survivors in the afternoon. Many HONOUR. James Arthur (Jim) Lovell USN, INTER LIVERY SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS. The congratulations to Liveryman John Cox. who headed the crew of Apollo 13 to safety Inter Livery Ski Championships is a great after an in-space explosion will receive the social occasion, held over two days in GUILD VISIT TO DUXFORD FLYING Guild's premier award, joining aircrew across January in the Portes du Soleil resort of LEGENDS. Some thirty Guild members the whole spectrum of aviation at the annual Morzine. The past four Championships have gathered at Duxford on Friday 12 July, in Trophy and Awards Banquet in the Guildhall seen over 400 Liverymen and Freemen from glorious weather, to watch arrivals and on 23rd October. over 40 Livery Companies vie in friendly practice display routines for the Flying Captain Lovell initially served as a US Navy rivalry through Slalom and Giant Slalom Legends Air Display which took place over night fighter pilot and test pilot before being courses for team and individual titles. the following two days. Past Master Cliff accepted as an astronaut for the Gemini It is three years since the Guild entered a Spink, Liveryman John Romain and Upper programme. He flew as pilot on Gemini 7 in team but this year liveryman Caroline Freeman David Ratcliffe all flew a variety of 1965 and was launched again as Command Gough-Cooper upheld Guild honour by warbirds during the display. The Editor, after Pilot on Gemini 12. He is the only man to regaining the position of Ladies' Champion helping prepare the marquee, gave have flown to the Moon twice, but not and next year a new trophy for the best conducted tours of the Imperial War landed on it. He orbitted the Moon in Apollo ladies' team is there to be raced for. So for all Museum's Buccaneer, which features in his 8, helping pave the way for Neil Armstrong's skiing ladies out there and up for a challenge, log book. Other Guild members present on first steps and as Commander of Apollo 13 the gauntlet is down! duty as members of the Flying Control his coolness under pressure gave us the In addition there are prizes for the fastest Committee included Past Master Rick immortal phrase known the world over, overall team, the fastest Court team, the Peacock-Edwards and Upper Freeman Alan “Houston, we have a problem”. fastest team with 200 years' skiing Lockwood. The Apollo 13 spacecraft had lifted off on experience (age is positively encouraged!) April 11th 1970 to land Captain Lovell and and the Actuaries Handicap Cup as well as A Hurricane taxis out for a pre Air Show prizes for individual performance for ladies, practice at Duxford Fred Haise on the Moon, with Jack Swigert to Masters and in the men's young, mid and pilot the service module. An oxygen tank veteran age groups. explosion two days later crippled the The event will take place in Morzine on spacecraft 200,000 miles away from earth, 24th/25th January 2014. The format is a threatening to maroon the three men in parallel slalom on the Friday evening under space, far beyond the help of any human floodlights followed by a Giant Slalom on agency. Lovell and his crew, improvising Saturday morning with the Championship under conditions of extreme hardship and dinner and prizes on Saturday evening. The pressure, brought Apollo 13 home safely, entry fee is yet to be confirmed but will be in with Captain Lovell adjusting course by the order of £125, which includes both races, manually firing the lunar module's thrusters vin chaud during the slalom racing, an après and engine, using his watch for timing. ski reception after the Friday evening race, A complete list of all Trophy and Awards the Saturday evening dinner plus a donation recipients is on page 9 of this issue.
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