Bachelor of Science Becomes Atlantic Flier

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 145, 22 June 1939, Page 8

Bachelor of Science Becomes Atlantic Flier

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS CAPTAIN From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON, June I. Imperial Airways announces the appointment of Captain Albert Gordon Store to the company’s Atlantic division. Captain Store, who is 33 years old and the son of a well-known South African businessman, comes from Kimberley. Ho learnt to fly in 1926, joined Imperial Airways in 1934 and has served 12 years as a flying officer with the Royal Air Force Reserve. In 1930 he was appointed assistant instructor to the London Aeroplane Club and the following year flew with Miss Peggy Salainau on her recordbreaking flight from London to Cape Town. Captain Store has been flying Imperial flying-boats on the Empire services to Singapore and Durban for the past two years. Holding his lirst-ciass navigator’s certificate, he is qualified for long-range over-ocean flyiDg, and later in the year will probably pilot one of the flying-boats of the Cabot class to Canada and the United States. Captain Store came to England from South Africa in 1920. He entered the Imperial College of Science and Technologv, specialised in mechanical engineering, obtained his bachelor of science degree, and became an associafe lof the City and Guilds Institute. He is also an associate Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He is married, and lives at Ashhurst, near the Empire air base at Southampton.