Britain’s Civil Air Guard
(ireceived 10 a.m.) LONDON, July 24. The Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, announces the formation of a Civil Air Guard connected with the existing light aeroplane clubs. It will be open to men and women between the ages of 18 and 50, at a cost of £2/2/- a year. Member’s must offer their services in the event of a national emergency. It will be a subsidised, voluntary civilian plan, controlled by four honorary commissioners under Lord Londonderry, a former Secretary of State for Air. The Minister’s announcement resulted in an inundation of inquiries from aeroplane and gliding clubs. An authority states that the scheme will enable people to glide for a few pence per hour. Many clubs (are ordering machines and organising instructional staffs. Glider factories are preparing to enlarge their works, but aeroplane clubs, owing to the (air expansion scheme absorbing British machines, must purchase light aircraft from America.
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Northern Advocate, 25 July 1938, Page 5
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