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AirPilot DECEMBER 2014 ISSUE 6 Diary DECEMBER 2014 9 Technical and Air Safety Committee Meeting Cobham House 12 Company Carol Service St Michael's Cornhill AI R PILOT 12 Christmas Supper The Counting House THE HONOURABLE 19 Office closes until 5 Jan JANUARY 2015 COMPANY OF 5 Office opens AIR PILOTS 13 Education and Training Committee Meeting Cobham House incorporating 14 Trophies and Awards Committee Meeting Cobham House Air Navigators 20 Benevolent Fund Board of Trustees AGM RAF Club 20 Environment Committee Meeting Cobham House PATRON : 22 9th General Purposes and Finance Committee Meeting Cobham House His Royal Highness 22 5th Court Meeting Cutlers' Hall The Prince Philip 22 Court Election Dinner Cutlers' Hall Duke of Edinburgh KG KT FEBRUARY 2015 3 Technical and Air Safety Committee Meeting Cobham House GRAND MASTER : 26 10th General Purposes and Finance Committee Meeting Cobham House His Royal Highness 26 6th Court Meeting Cutlers' Hall The Prince Andrew Duke of York KG GCVO MARCH 2015 3 Education and Training Committee Meeting Cobham House 9 Annual Service St Michael's Cornhill MASTER : Dorothy Saul-Pooley 9 AGM, Installation and Supper Merchant Taylors' Hall LLB (Hons) FRAeS 19 Lord Mayor's Dinner for Masters Mansion House 20 United Guilds' Service St Paul's Cathedral CLERK : 20 Lunch with Fan Makers' Company Skinners' Hall Paul J Tacon BA FCIS APRIL 2015 9 Benevolent Fund Board of Trustees Meeting Cobham House Incorporated by Royal Charter. 16 1st General Purpose and Finance Committee Meeting Cobham House A Livery Company of the City of London. 23 Assistants’ Dinner Cutler’s Hall 23 New Members’ Briefing Cobham House PUBLISHED BY : The Honourable Company of Air Pilots, 30 Luncheon Club RAF Club Cobham House, 9 Warwick Court, 30 Cobham Lecture Royal Aeronautical Society Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5DJ. EDITOR : Group Captain T Eeles BA FRAeS EMAIL: [email protected] VISITS PROGRAMME Please see the Flyers accompanying this issue of Air Pilot and previous editions of Guild [email protected] News or contact Liveryman David Curgenven at [email protected]. FUNCTION PHOTOGRAPHY : These flyers can also be downloaded from the Company's website. Gerald Sharp Photography 12 Dec Ladies visit to Bank of England View images and order prints on-line. TELEPHONE: 020 8599 5070 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.sharpphoto.co.uk PRINTED BY: Printed Solutions Ltd 01494 478870 Cover photo: The highlight of the 2014 Air Display Season was undoubtedly the Except where specifically stated, none of the material presence of two airworthy Lancasters, made possible by the visit to this country of in this issue is to be taken as expressing the opinion the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Lancaster ' Vera'. It was a tremendous act of the Court of the Company. of faith to fly this irreplaceable aircraft over the Atlantic, and back again at the onset EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS : of autumn. An unscheduled engine change took place at Teeside on August 29th The copy deadline for the February 2015 edition following a failure of a seal in the supercharger of the no 4 engine, but this was the of Air Pilot is 1 January 2015 and should be sent only snag encountered during the six week tour. Huge crowds attended those to: The Editor, Air Pilot, Cobham House, 9 Warwick Court, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5DJ. events where both Lancasters appeared, so much so that at Duxford on 14th September an air taxi service using an aircraft of similar vintage, a Catalina, had to TELEPHONE : 020 7404 4032 be employed to move participating air and ground crew from their hotel in FAX NO: 020 7404 4035 EMAIL : [email protected] Cambridge to Duxford because of traffic congestion. A report appears on page 21. WEBSITE : www.airpilots.org Contents News Round Up . 4 Gazette . 6 A message from The Master’s Message . 7 your Editor... You will find in this issue a long article Trophies and Awards Banquet 2014 . 8 describing the wonderful Trophies and Awards Banquet held in October, which Trophies and Awards Winners 2014 . 11 includes a unique 'Bird's Eye View' from the Master. As ever, the deeds of those who The Sir Frederick Tymms Lecture 2014 . 17 received awards are truly inspiring, it is amazing that every year the Trophies and Amy Johnson’s link with the Air Pilots . 19 Awards Committee manages to find so many heroes in the world of aviation. Another 'Bird's Eye View' was given to the Super Connie at Farnborough . 20 Company's Luncheon Club in September by Upper Freeman Jo Salter, one of the very Lancaster Dividend . 21 first fast jet female pilots in the RAF, who entertained us with a highly amusing Flying Scholarships for the disabled . 22 description of her experiences. A report can be found in News Round Up. Comemmoration of the commencement of WW1 . 23 As I sit here typing this editorial, I am listening to Radio 4's Desert Island Discs Company Visit to Stow Maries . 25 which is featuring one of the Company's most illustrious members, Liveryman Captain Eric Brown, describing his Company visit to Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre experiences. It struck me again how diverse and Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight . 26 our many members' activities are and how they can be found in many unusual places. Liveryman Richard Piper falls into this From the Desk of the DAA . 28 category; he describes flying in a Super Constellation, and experiencing an air taxi service provided by a Catalina which was also being flown by a member, Freeman Jeff Boyling, ferrying aircrew from Cambridge to Duxford because of traffic gridlock caused by the two Lancasters at the September Air Show. Freeman Ron Gammons tells his story of the Tiger Moth expedition to Amiens to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War and Freeman Steve Bridgewater writes about flying with the Breitling Team at Fairford, an interesting comparison to the Red Arrows. As ever my grateful thanks go to all contributors, without whose efforts there would be no magazine for you to read. Now that the year is drawing to a close, it only remains for me to observe that now we have launched no fewer that six issues of Air Pilot, our newly titled Company magazine, we are well and truly airborne. May I wish all of you a Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year; keep sending in those articles and photos ! Assistant Tom Eeles Honorary Editor News Round Up AFFILIATION WITH HMS OCEAN arrangements available were designed for MEMORIAL TO AIRMEN AND A DEPUTY Following the decommissioning of HMS male pilots. As a consequence of the MASTER Illustrious the Company has received an shortcomings of this equipment she later Past Master Artur Thorning reports that official invitation for an interim affiliation participated in the 'RAF women's on a recent visit to Plymouth he visited with HMS Ocean, pending the urinary pad trial', which involved testing and photographed the Airmens’ commissioning of HMS Prince of Wales, the pad whilst undergoing 7g in a Memorial on Plymouth Hoe. It is a the second new carrier which the centrifuge !! It was an inspirational talk general memorial for all British airmen Government has confirmed will enter which was acknowledged with acclaim who died in 1939 - 45. It also covers the service. by all present. After a vote of thanks was ashes of Air Vice Marshal D C T Bennet given by the Master, notice was given that CB CBE DSO of Pathfinder fame who the next Luncheon Club event would be was Deputy Master of the Guild of Air LUNCHEON CLUB on 5th February 2015, when Liveryman Pilots and Air Navigators (as it was then The Air Pilots' Luncheon Club gathered Air Vice-Marshal Peter Dodworth will titled) 1944 - 46. again at the RAF Club on 24th describe the Harrier's entry into service. September for a special Ladies Day celebration. Some 85 members and guests dined on a delicious traditional meal of NEW VFR AIRSPACE GUIDES FOR roast lamb with mint sauce, the LIVERPOOL AND DONCASTER gentlemen having been encouraged to Air Traffic Services Ltd, who provide air wear colourful blazers, ties and button traffic control for Liverpool John Lennon holes; those who failed to comply were Airport and Robin Hood Airport suitably admonished and fined. Amongst Doncaster Sheffield, have created a VFR the diners were no fewer than three Airspace Transit Guide for GA pilots female Livery Company Masters, four flying around these airfields. There is a Past Masters, three Wardens and huge amount of GA activity into and numerous Assistants of the Honourable around both of these airports, and each Company and a number of new has suffered (and continues to suffer) members who were given a warm more than its fair share of airspace welcome. After the meal Upper Freeman infringements. In an attempt to highlight Jo Salter, one of the first ladies to qualify the main visual features, and to assist as an RAF pilot and fly operational pilots in navigating around these areas sorties on a Tornado squadron and more successfully, the guides have been instruct on the Hawk gave a wonderful produced by the Air Traffic Controllers talk on her experiences titled 'A Bird's themselves ! It is hoped that GA pilots in Eye View'. Her experiences might well these parts of the country will take the have discouraged a less determined time to look at the guides and contribute individual. For example, at role disposal towards a reduction in airspace after training she was about to be sent to infringements, meaning safer flying for multi-engined aircraft simply because of everyone.