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THE PAGEANTRY of WINGS: The Royal Air Force Display

... and the Prime Minister, members of the Cabinet, the Corps Diplomatique, the Empire Press Dele gates, and the Colonial Governors over for the Conference are amongst those who will be seen in the Royal Enclosure. Accommodation has been ar ranged for 150 ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1471 | Page: 56 | Tags: Photographs 

The Training of Pilots in the Royal Air Force

... careful deduc tion and analysis throughout the whole history of the Service. The training of the Royal Air Force is the whole life of the Royal Air Force. The Royal Air Force does not watch and wait for the day when it will come into action it is always moving ...

Published: Wednesday 04 May 1938
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1878 | Page: 62 | Tags: Photographs 

Air Racing and Defence

... produced by the Air League for an Air Defence Cadet Corps. In a time of emergency, every able-bodied man and woman will be needed for duties which only adults can perform. Boys are wanted for relief work. The Corps needs 20,000 cadets between the ages of fourteen ...

Published: Wednesday 08 June 1938
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 633 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

The R.A.F. Flies On

... this state of preparedness, the Royal Air Force since 1918 has placed to its credit achievements which are comparable in display of courage and initiative with those of its predecessors, the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service between 1914 ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2596 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

Plastics for 'Planes: Synthetic Aircraft

... bought one for experimental flying in radio control and fog landing. The Air Cadet Corps npHE old year ended with more than 4000 i boys recruited for the Air Cadet Corps, Numbers 40 at Maidstone, 41 at Taunton, and 42 at King's Lynn being the last three ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 981 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

MAKE 1931 AN AN YEAR!: Civil Aviation Chief Appointed

... operate. Colonel Strange has a pre-war pilot's certificate dated some time in 1913, and Captain Balfour joined the Royal Fly ing Corps in 1915. Spartan machines have been particularly successful in Canada. The Proof of the Pudding The standard Cirrus ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1931
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 842 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

Progress of World Air Routes: Trans-Pacific

... fly. Captain Harold Balfour, Under-Secretary of State for Air, who had not flown a single-seater since the days of the Royal Flying Corps, has piloted both a Hurricane and a Spitfire without any refresher course on an inter mediate trainer. Ease of control ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1025 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Howard Marshall on Rugger: The Next Two Internationals

... police rallied well and almost made a close match of it, but they were inferior in the scrum and behind it. Lieut. Dean Royal Tank Corps), the Army scrum-half is seen arrested in the picture W. G. S. Johnston Will once more be on the Scottish wing when they ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1034 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

The Passing Hour: Comments and Asides

... dressing in lines of ten. The Territorial units, which came first, were distinctly inclined to straggle. Then suddenly the Observation Corps came past, almost every member wearing war medals. They kept in perfect dressing as if from memory of battles long ago ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1855 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

If Gossip We Must

... preceded on the previous day by many eve-of -Londonderry-House tea-parties. Art shows, whether one-man affairs or the big Royal Society of Portrait Painters' Exhibition, are now ushered in by preliminary cocktail-drinking, usually on the Sabbath. And ...

Published: Wednesday 30 November 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1991 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

The Passing Hour: Wartime Comments and Asides

... page 376) The Commander Inspects a Trench Lieut. -General Sir John Dill who was in October appointed Commander of the 1st Corps, B.E.F., is seen in this British official photograph inspecting the digging of a trench in a beet field his car waits in the ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1831 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

If... Gossip We Must

... cognoscenti of Chelsea, a supremely self-satisfied crew, would be more likely to smack him than to agree with him. 'T'he Cafe Royal announces its in- tention of going back to the fin de siecle atmosphere and gathering unto itself the distinguished Bohe mians ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2230 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs