R.A.F. FORCED TO CLIP PILOTS' WINGS
LONDOX, Jan. 13. Because skilled mechauics lmve been demobilised too quickly. the IGA.F. lias found that the number of aircraft it can fly is limited. The Air Ministrv has therefore decided that 400 wartime fiiers — "the apple of our eye ' ' — have been told they can fly no niore. They liave been offered ihe alternative of joining the ground statf wliile keeping their fiying pay and coutinning to wear wings or of giving u-p the ser\ ice ivith gratuities and 34 days' leave. They are mostly sergeant pilots, observers aiul navigators who joineil up from 1942 onwards. Air yrarshal 8ir Hugh Saunders, who is Air Gouneil Member for Personnel and l'ormerly Ghief of the Air Ktaff, Xew Zeaiand, said: " It is only by taking these drastn- measures that we have any prospect of puttiag the air erew training seheme on to ti sound t'ooting. "
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 January 1948, Page 5
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