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The Popular Flying Association is t.he.f.bu body in the United Kingdom of amateir con-structors and operators of ultra. light and group operatecl iircraft

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE POPULAR FLYING ASSOCIATTON

Volume 2. Number 5 (New Series) flr published by THE POPULAR F'LYING ASSOCIATION

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CONTENTS

An Announcement

AI \S many members wilr reca, at the annual general meeting Maurice Imray announced the fact that he would shortly ..:_gl from the position of Honorary Secretary to the p.F.A.

l:,:ljr,!!rl ntember.ship of. the p.F.A. (two poutttls per annutnl entitles each ntember r, popuran nturNo free qf charge. Addition;i c;;i";;;r';'; o b t a i n e d fr o m p. F. A H e a dq u o r t e r s at Lo ndoii " ir', Housa. t9 park Lane, Ldnctoi, -w.t."ii"i{."'aii.

This state of affairs was brought about by the need f,or Maurice to give more time to his regular._ptoy- ment as Aviation secretary of the Royai Aero ciub, his P.F.A. activities as a voluntary official were widespread and it is tittle wonder that he found the going difficult. It was therefore with regret thai he tendered his resignation as secreta ry atihe september meeting of the Executive Committe;. At the .u_. time, the Right Honourable Lord Sempill, A.F.C., the Chairman of many years standing suggested ihat a full-time secretary should be appointed on a salaried basis, and, that this office shourd be under the supervision of an Executive Chairman, responsible for the day to day administration of the p.F.A. Lord Sempill was unfortunately unabre to give the amount of time to the Association,s affairs that such an arrangemgrt would entail and accordingly proposed that he should resign. After consideration theCommittee elected, on Lord Sempill,s proposal, that Harold Best-Devereux should become chairman of the Executive Committee.

Lord Sempill has kindly accepted a Vice_presidency while Maurice Imray has undertaken to remain as a Committee member in the position of Hon. Treasurer, succeeding Colonel R. L. preston, C.B.E.

A messoge from the new Chairman of the P.F.A. Executive Committee to readers of Popur.q.n FrvrNc

Dear Member,

In taking over the task of Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Popular Flying Association from my predecessor, the Right Honourable Lord Sempill, A.F.C., I am most conscious of two things, apafi from the personal honour which I feel this appointment to be.

During the past few years this Association has been helped by a great number of people, all qualified to help in many different ways, and who have given a great amount of time and effort; in fact, our organisation has been more than blessed with the type of volunteer who has made light aviation a possibility rather than a pipe dream of bygone days. As always, there are many names which will never be awarded their true merit in our affairs, but that, I believe to be an unimportant part of the thoughts of those men and women who have given so generously in the past, that our future as a leading aviation body in the world is assured. Lord Sempill has a proud history in the support of ultra light aviation and among his other deserved honours is that the thanks of the little man in aviation will always be in his ears for his active prodding in the proper quarters and his example as a forceful pilot of light and ultralight aeroplanes. Few today in fact could equal his pre-war London-Berlin flight in a Drone, when it might be assumed, that but for the repression we suffered after the war, we would have had great numbers of ultra-light aircraft capable of such a trip.

Maurice Imray has also gained affection and thanks for his stalwart efforts over many years without thought of reward other than the feeling of a job well done. Knowing Maurice as I do, I could write many pages about his work for P.F.A., but it will suffice to say that whoever took his job it would be impossible to equal the affection with which he is held among the groups and members of our Movement. Risking the possibility of failing to mention deserving names I would like to think that in the future the work of Mole, Weyl, the other Imray, Clegg, Rosemary LindsayNeale will be justified by increasing success and efforts by our sort of aviation, for those who do not know, it is ' flying for fun ', a term coined by Maurice, and explaining in the proverbial nutshell our aim in life. There is no commercial aspiration, no fight with ' other bodies ' with similar aims to ourselves, just the hope that we can fly cheaply, cleanly and decently, preferably in aeroplanes we have, ourselves, built.

For the future we have great hopes, we are accepted in the international field as the founding body representing ultra-light and group aviation in the United Kingdom and already we have fraternal ties with the Reseau de Sport de L'Air and the Experimental Aircraft Association. The basis of an international movement exists and no effort will be spared to bring this state of affairs to an advantageous fruition. The future is full of hope, we have the designs, we have the facilities, and the members to do it. Is my personal aim, that we can, in a spirit of friendly competition, lead the world one day in ultra-light aviation, set too high?

Yours sincerely, ,^ \ , clLo€r