NO JOB IN AIR FORCE

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 90, 14 November 1939, Page 3

NO JOB IN AIR FORCE

FAMOUS LONG DISTANCE FLYER OFFER OF SERVICE DECLINED. (From The Guardian's London Correspondent) LONDON, October 21. Charles Scott, who won the air race from England to Australia in 1934 (with Campbell Black) and the London-Capetown race in 1936, is driving an ambulance in London. Although Scott is one the finest and most daring longrdistarice pilots the British Empire has produced, he has not been able to rejoin the Air Force. "Here I am," he said, "with 19 years continuous ? experience of flying, and given nothings more important to do than driving an ambulance. It does seem silly, doesn't it? When war broke out I went along to the Air Ministry. I wrote to Sir John Salmond. the former Chief of the Air Force. He was very nice and as helpful as but the of it all'was there was no job for me. "I served as an officer in the Air Force for four years and after all I've done quite a bit of flying since then. I hope it doesn't sound like swank, but I did" think that my knowledge and experience would be of use to the country these days. I'm 36, as fit as ever, and I know as much about lohg-distance flying as most people in the country. Any number of boys of 18 or 19 are being enrolled in the Air Force now, and I thought that at least there would be a job for me as an instructor."