FLYING COURSE AT WIGRAM

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27397, 9 July 1954, Page 12

FLYING COURSE AT WIGRAM

NINE INSTRUCTORS GRADUATE No. 17 instructors’ course at the Centra! Flying School, Royal New Zealand Air Force station, Wigram, ended yesterday. The 14 weeks’ course concluded with a demonstration of formation flying by nine instructors in Harvard aircraft. They flew past with their aircraft forming the figure 17 and afterwards the final of the aerobatic competition for the Lawson trophy was held. A mounted model Harvard, the trophy which was presented by Flight Lieutenant N. A. Lawson, R.A.F., who was an instructor at the central flying school while he was on exchange duty from the Royal Air Force, was won by Flying Officer S. A. Williams, Of Dannevirke. It was presented to him by Group Captain B. S. Nicholl, the commanding officer of the station.. Of the nine graduates from the course, four have been posted to Taieri for instruction duties on Tiger Moths a I“L th S, r£ ™amde r will be instructors at the No. 1 Flying Training School at Wigram. The instructors who graduated from the course were: Flight Lieutenant J. M. Wilson (Christchurch), Flying Officers J. C. Evison (Darfleld), M F McDd. Palmer (Auckland), F. A. WiL hams, W. R. Swap (Temuka), Pilot 2' (Palmerston North), J. F. Harrison (Auckland), B. J'-.kf’gg (Christchurch) and W. H Willis (Christchurch).