مجموعة ٥/٧٣ "سلاح الجو الأفغاني: تقارير" [و‎‎١‎١‎٥] (٤٣١/٢٢٩)

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Frying Training Sc hool.
There have been no further developments during the quarter. It
.ticipated that tne 9 stiidAn+.s will commence their flying training
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is anticipated that tne 9 students will
snouid tne proposal
materialize.
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6. Airfields.
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f\ Rawash airfield is nov; reported to be capable of nousing
1^-8 aircraft of tne Hind type. Tne accomodation consists of tnree
buildings each having 6 hangers capable of nousing 6 Hind aircraft.
* • Td- British^ instructors previously stated that tne tnree
buildings w«re only capable of housing 36 aircraft, but after a closer
examination of tn<- buildings they found that this was an under
estimate. The* workshop buildings have not been completed owing to a
snortags of cement, and otner materials.
party of men were despatched for the
(b) It is reported that
purpose ^ of installing one or two patrol tanks on
-i-Sharif, but no further details are available,
has been sent to Mazar-i-Snarif so far,
7* Aviati on Petrol.
inu airfield at Mazar
No aviation petrol
(a) Tnere is no important change in the stocks of petrol held on the
Snerpur and Khwaja Rawash airfields, and petrol imported from l n dia is
being arrives. The British instructors report that about
Id is
during storage.
1200 gallons of aviation petrol in stock on the Shcrpur airfi
unserviceable as it has lost its octane value
(b) No aviation petrol has been despatched from Kabul t,o the
curing tn~ quarter.
provinces
8. Britisn instructors.
(a) Mr. D.W.R. Robinson, Messrs koI-s Royce instructor, left Kabul on
letn March_ on uermination of nis contract. He is being replaced,
but nis relief has not yet arrived from England.
„ (b) Mr. J Bx-adley, Messrs Hawkers instructor, nas renewed his contract
ior a furtner year witn effect from 18tn February, 1943.
^(c)^S/L B.D. Higginton R.A.F., pilot instructor to the Afghan Air
o orce, nas staged tnat ne does not wish to renew his contract when it
expires on 16tn August, 1943.
U*S.A. 3teaman Trainer A1-rrraft.
^-‘-de Steaiman trainer aircraft presented to the A-^gnan Govt, by
the Govt ^ of the U.S.A. was flown to Kabul from Peshawar on 28th Anril.
Tne ^British invstructors are not impressed by the construction or
periormance of this aircraft, and consider that the aircraft may not
prove very suitable for use in Afghanistan. it is believed that a
N.C.O. mecnanic employed by the U.S.A. Legation in Kabul has carried
ouo an attecnaent to an American Air Force unit in India with a view
t ’0. n is .being able to assist the Afghan Air Force to service and
maintain this aircraft.