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TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1953,

WEEK-END GIRL PILOTS(E) TRAIN

TO AID THE RAF Briefing-From

Office girls, fashion girls pile up their flying hours

VE days a week Mrs Valerie Robinson, slim, 28-year- Gray's Inn Road for the Cheapside underwear house where she works as a'model.

But at week-ends, as Pilot Officer Robinson, she is likely to be at the controls of a Tiger Moth or a Chipmunk training aeroplane high above the Surrey hills. Or, if the weather is too bad for flying, sitting in a classroom listening to a lecture on navigation, meteorology, or some other flying subject.

Valerie

Working housewife Hobinson Is one of the small

band of women "week-end by JAMES STUART

plots" of the Women's Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who would be called up if war broke oul.

There are about 40 of these girls at the Reserve Flying Schools in various parts of the country. Some

are fully qualised pilots. with nundreds of Aying hours behind them, others are parative beginners.

com-

·CADET PILOT Miriam Gilbert (left) and Pilot Offere Eileen

Phyales, works at the

station. Pilot Officer Towers of Brighton pooled her sayings with friends to buy an airplane,

Towers are about to fly a BC televisions research; THOUGH reports from Korea

FERRY JOBS ndicate that some Chinese women are flying the Commun-

THE "V.R." GIRL plots wait for thele turn to fly with some of the men resèrvials in the crew room. Their pay: 35 a year bounty, 1s. 6d. an hour plus travelling expenses for their week-end traluing and full BAF pay and allowances for their annual 15 consecutive days"

training in summer.

JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK

A PROBLEM FOR

IVY

When Ivy next appeared, the

.

Ists' ultra-fost MIG.15 jet

hters, the RAF's reserve giri, plibts are not likely to engage in high-altitude, high-speed com- bats.

In war they would probably air- Ay RAF communications crufior ferry aeroplanes from the factories to the

operational

turns as some of them did in the last war.

Valerie Robinson is one of the elght girl pilots on the strength of No. 15 Reserve Flying School, Redhill, Surrey. At the samne school, operated by a civil air company for the Air Ministry. there are 373 men

pilots and

navigators, mostly war-time

IAF men.

One of the men Is Mrs Robin- Son's husband, EL war-lime fighter pilot.

"We met here at Redhill, and we were married eight months ago," Mrs Robinson told те But the Instructors, I noticed, were still apt to call her Miss Newport.

100 HOURS

WHEN Mrs Robinson got the

urge to By, five years ago, she learned at Denham. Later she few at the Redhill Flying

Club (who use the same airfield as the Reserve Flying School), and when she had completed 100 hours in the air she joined the VR.

has Since then sho done another 100 hours' flying.

The VR does not take now pilots, men or women, until they ̈have an "A" licence, which incans about 40 hours flying at a cost to themselves of between £100 and £150. But once they become reserve pilots they sto paid for their flying instead of kaving to pay the £2 10s, or 43 10s. an hour which the dy- ing clubs charge,

The Chief

CHIEF FLYING INSTRUCTOR Squadron Leader E. P. Lash, AFC, briefs the girl pilots for a cross-country training flight. They have to do 40 hours' flying a year-about half during their fortnight's annual training and the rest sprend over week-ends. They do another 72 hours' ground training and lectures.

MRS. VALERIE ‘ROBINSON (left) and ex-ferry pilot Mary a Tiger Guthrie trainin

Moth

CADET FILOT Mavis Johnston, aged 19, cllrabs into the front seat of a Chipmunk

Mavis Johnston, who lives at thought of girl pupils. He Pilot Omeer Jean Bird, who Euston Road, West Croydon, is cummed up: "Some are botter lives in a caravan on the airfield the baby" of the Redhill air than the men, others about the You get roughly the at Redhill (when she is not girls. Aged 19, the works in a same,

Street insurance some cross-section, They are away flying) is one of Britain's Fenchurch

A office. most experienced airwomen.

Just as keen and just as ablo as First Ofeer in the wartime Air

the average reservist.” Transport Auxiliary, she has

That was the volce of 28 years' experience of flying and 13 years as an instructor.

➡(London Express Service)

SO KEEN ASKED Squadron Leader Edward Lash, the chlet Instructor, what-

flown nearly 3,000 hours in Ser- vice type aeroplanes of scores of different kinds, and many more Aying hours in civil aircraft.

and fast

LANE LANDING

She has flown, as ferry Mr Milton remanded Ivy for a pilot, big bombers HER surname was one of houtch is chores for them. She

visited three old-age pensioners week in custody, so that a proba-nighters. Now she is a "tree- troublesome

tion officer in the part of tance" professional pilot. foreign tongue-twisters that "very day.

Unfortunately, minding other London where she lived, might make policenten wish they people's homes left her ille report upon her. had never asked for that ilme to zitend to her own house-

hold, and her husband, a stickler magistrate had this report beforeARY GUTHRIE, too was in particular, and cause

for neatness and

him. He read it through, then the ATA. tidiness.

This slim, 30- learned clerks and gaolers to pronounce them as though not only upbraided har for lurred to Miss Hamilton, Bow year-old blonde Pilot Officer, probation officer, who who shares a Chelsea flat with a not keeping her own home they were reading aloud spick and epan as

he would had also seen Ivy, and said to girl friend, was a hostess in the

her: This is rather better than now defunct British South from. a copy of Pravda held have liked.

we might have expected, isn't American Airways. upside-down.

In several

un-

AN

packout

against Ivy was unusual. For

IN A CLEFT STICK

01 Street's

themselves.

pay more! own home to

ND worse, although moneyIt is," Miss Hamilton agreed, In 1947 the was one of a small Her Drst name, however, was

WAX not really short, Ivy for the report spoke of the efforts band of pilots chosen to dy ex- Ivy, and the voice In which she answered the charge against somehow got into debt.

She was in a cleft stick, there-ly and her husband had made to RAF aircraft to Portugal for the a credit to Portuguese Air Force, and sho her at Bow Street 139 fore. She could give up golne keep their home

had a narrow escape when fly- mistakably that of a Londoner. to work, and

rupes, the cattention to her

5. A WEEK

ing a 400 m.ph. Spitfire fighter. She had to force-land the Spl!- a gravel lane at Tile- one thing. the charges to which please her husband; but if she 66 DO realise now, how mean it fire in

"I'

Reading. The air- **** did she would never raise money was of me," said Ivy, a dark, jhurst, near she pleaded guilty

pay off the small but in pale woman, who looked older craft struck a tree and have beca made dul

by an ac

than her 23 years.

wings were ripped off.

Mary countant, for they were detailed creasingly urgent debts.

The problem seemed hopeless,

"It was, very," said the magls-was dazed, but uninjured. Hee to a fraction of a penny; for an-

gave it long thought, tratt, "and I could see no signs flying experience covers 24 dif- other, Ivy's troubles were really and Ivy

solu-lost week that you were sorry. ferent types of aeroplanes and upon caused by over-conscientiousness and at last she hit

Instead, of visiting three You'll have to pay the money about 700 hours in the air. both on her own part and thation.

cld-age peraitiers cach day, the back. But I know you're In

seemed to

D

of her husband, a Pole.

: HOME HELP

On the ever

both

only went to the home of one, financial difficulties, and I'm not climbed into the cockpit of a leaving the others to get on as going to make it an oppressive.

without her

task.

"Now," she told me as she Tiger Moth, "I earn my living N the face of it, the pair of best they might

in the fashion world. work. problems aid, and claiming payment for "You will pay back ős, a

for all three.

which will remind you for some 'TOO EXPENSIVES pear in the deck at Bow Street. They were happily married, had and she was

than many people have who ep-workick:wrs soon discovered time of what you have done."

three-room

brought to Bow

He put ly en probation and BRUNETTE Miriam Gilbert, of

to seck again the elusive answer into flying in engine-less tal-

to the problem of how to live up, stanes at the Redhill Gliding to her husband's high ideals and Club. yet carn enough to be able to afford them,

a four-year-old daughter, they Street and charged with obtain she went off with a troubled looks. Reigate, had her initiation paid only 8s. 8d. a week for theiring by false pretences, sums of

flat, and there was 45. 41⁄41⁄2d., £1 UK. d., and B good money ecming Into the 94d. She pleaded guilty, home.

THIS IS BETTER Ivy's husb and brought back £7 BUT when Mr Frank Mon, a. week from his labouring job,

magistrate, asked her and she herself earned £ a whether she did not think it week.

mean to deprive old people thus

the

services, sho did not Ivy's job was as a home help. of her She was paid to visit elderly, answer, but just sullenly regard- Invalid people and attend to their ed him and remained silent.

"What's Her Lino?" Solution COMEDIENNE

· London · Kaprobe-Bereiro-

་ ' ་ Pilot Officer Towers tried (un successfully) to get into the [ATA when she was

17. Un- daunted, she learned, to By at Shoreham Airport after the war. "But I found civilian flying loo expenalve," she said,

he

SIDE GLANCES

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By Galbraith

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"Don't food him avery time he whimpers! Do you want the

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Sheaffers "SNORKEL

Dulles Looks

For Quick Truce Talks Result

WANTS EARLY POLITICAL

DISCUSSIONS

Washington, Apr. 20.

Mr John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, said today that he hoped the Korean Truce talks to be resumed next Friday would not be long dis- sociated from the political discussions.

He said he hoped the truce talks would lead to a quick result.

Mr Dulles began his statements on Korea at his weekly press conference, by saying that he believed the United Nations should try as far as was practicable to ensure that a political discussion should coincide with the military armistice talks so that the political talks could not be postponed indefinitely.

I it were apparent that there was no possibility of political agreement, he said, it might a bearing on the Πανα clusion of an armistice.

con-

לסער

Ho said the Governments concerned in the Korean might make known their view on a political settlement In the Far East before the conclusion of an Armistice.

Asked whether his statement meant he

of was in favour political discussions beginning before the Armistice talks were completed, Mr Dulles replied that theoretically this could be the case, but as a practical measure it would be extremely dimcult.

He added that it was possible

for the Governments concerned

to make known their view about

a political settlement just

商道

President Eisenhower, for ex-

ample, had done.

UN DOCUMENT

n

Mr Dulles also said that any truce. agreement would be United Nations document and not solely a United States document, and that the United States could not alone climinate the provision trit political talks should follow DTI armistice reement within three months.

Mr Dulles was asked if the United States favoured, the partitioning of Karca, about 100 miles north of the 38th Paralich

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He replied that the American Government policy continued to be based on the reunification of Korca, plaid down in the United Nations resolutions from que) Field Battery, paraded

with 25-pounder guns, 1947 onwards,

They were followed by the He denied that the Elsenhower 27

НАА Regiment Royal Administration favoured any Artillery and the 32 Medium other policy and denied that Regiment, the 45 Field Regi- consideration had been given to ment, the 72 LAA Regiment, any partition of Korea,

the 27 Light Battery (Strange's Company) and the 170 Light From a military standpoint, he Battery, all moving alowly to the said, the 100 miles wide waist to tune of the Regimental ... .Slow the north of the Parallel was March always thought to have been a Infantry Carriers at the 1st better defence position than the Battalion

Royal Norfolk present battleline or even the Regiment, the 1st Battalion The 600 miles, wide line near the Dorset Regiment, 1st Battalion Chinese border, but from a The Welch Regiment and the 1st, political point of view, unifien- Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles tion of Korea was still the goal brought up the rear,

The

Three Spitfires of the Hong- NO ANGLO-US TALKS

kong Auxiliary Air Force led the Royal Air Force By 'past, (Earlier this month it was followed by twelve Homets of reported here that the Govern- 80 Squadron, and twelve Varo ment was considering a plan for pires ct 28 Squadron peace in Asia, which included partition of Korea north of the 38th Parallel, It was later dis- closed that the reports orogo

from a discussion between Mr

Dulles and a group of correspon- dents. The White House said the

an

Radio Hongkong

H.K.T.

1.30, Music from Opera: 2; Landon · Government regarded the per-studio Melodies Sidney Torch and hie. Orch. With Ronald Cheaney manent partition of Korea s (Harmonica) (BBCTS): 230, ClassiCA neither desirable nor feasible.) In Jazz Small Combos, 5, Dornara Braders Eve of a New Replying to another question, Translated from the German by Schnabel (ECTS). | Day" by Mr Dulles sald that as far as ho | David Porter, Produced, by 23, 1 was aware Britain held no dis-Harding: Musig: is served: 0 cussions with the United States Variety Highlights: 0.45. Ray Martin and Orchestra; 6. Time signal, on these reports,

and Programme....... Summary:0.02 Mr Dulles was osited what Melody with the stars: 5.30, wilight Harmony; 7, Fitsy Hearing presented American polky would be by Donald Brooks; 750, La Deal

Francaise signed and Heure

(Studio); 7.50. armistice was

Weather Report: 6. Tima Bigan the Chinese pad North Korean World News and News Talk (London Communists later refused- 10 Relay): 0,15,· Plano: Playtime by agree to free elections, and the Kenneth Dinsley (Concert lau)? *350, Forces Favourlies (London reunification of Korea,

Relay); Musical Notebook pre die replied that the refusals rented by The Rev. Fathur were not always permanent. He Ryan. B (Studio) 1:57 30, i-töval Occasion, A Programme in Honour of suld sometimes the points of view the Hirthday of. H. M. Queen Eliza«

the Communists

could

beth, Including some historical stVA

Queen and change unexpectedly arid he cordings of 1.2.1-Can

of Edinb gové as an example, the un-I.X. I the Duke

(BRCTB) 10... Prolamet Overture, agreement by the opio cigar) ......** Lpodon: Puljunk expected" Commmists to exchange sick monie Oren. cond. by Sir Edward and wounded prisoners of war. Eixas: 10.30. At the Ballel Pin Ho saki changes in the at-apple Polly (Gir, Arthur, Budvan

......kadter's Wells Orch. cond." titude of the Soviet Communist Charles Mackerrasta tank. Wentime regime were unpredictable and Report; 11, Itadio New Beel

Dom: Delay); 11.15, Coainisht"|| it was never wise permanently God Bare The Queen; 11.30. to abandon hope-Router,

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