There is a rather nervous disclaimer aimed at dominies who suffer from a humour bypass.
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Then just before 10am a theft from a Mini Cooper was reported on Dominies Close.
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When she heard how much, the Dominies were whisked away into a private area and given their check.
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Even boiling water didn't put them off and the Worcestershire Borders League clash between Alvechurch and Dominies Guild was called off.
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Lion raced to a 5-2 succes at dominies but Anker Inn swept to a 6-1 triumph in the dartts games.
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By over-professionalising we exclude mature folk whose experience would make them better dominies in a typical housing estate than a young graduate.
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Today six Dominies flew in formation out of RAF Cranwell then carried out final flypasts over the base to mark the end of its service.
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In many lowland industrial areas, for instance, and parts of the Highlands and Islands, little scope existed for the democratic intellect' in either pupils or dominies.
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They'd have had to give the dominies flak jackets and tazers, as well as putting up razor wire around the playgrounds along with a pack of guard dogs.
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Other Dragon Rapides were impressed into service with the British armed forces as communications aircraft and training aircraft; Australian Rapides were also impressed by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Furthermore, while the final production Rapide was completed in November 1941, de Havilland instead produced the military-orientated Dominie variant exclusively. Over 500 additional Dominies were manufactured for military use, powered by improved Gipsy Queen engines; by the end of production in July 1946, a total of 727 aircraft (both Rapides and Dominies combined) had been manufactured.Moss 1966, pp.
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DH.89B Dominie Mark II in Royal Netherlands Air Force livery, Militaire Luchtvaart Museum, the Netherlands (2009) Throughout the course of the war, civilian Rapides were progressively replaced by Dominies as the type became available in greater quantities. Rapides were either dispatched to perform passenger operations or occasionally converted for other purposes, such as Air Ambulances; by the end of the conflict, only a total of nine impressed Rapides were restored to their civilian registrations; however, these were joined by many Dominies which had been deemed to be surplus to requirements.
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Fairmead House (for senior boys' boarding) and Dominies (the headmaster's house) were sold as part of the restructuring of the school in the 1990s. All senior boarders are now accommodated in the main building and in Raftshund House--an Arts and Crafts villa next door.
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A former RAF Dominie G-AIDL was flown by Allied Airways in the late 1940s, Fox's Confectionery 1950–59, the Army Parachute Association 1967–77 and Air Atlantique Classic Flight 1995–2009. Postwar, the Dominie continued to be used for some time by Royal Naval air station flights as communications aircraft. By 1960, the Royal Navy still had a fleet of 14 Dominies, although under normal circumstances only three would be actively used at any one point in time, while the others were stored at RAF Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. The last of the Royal Navy's Dominies had been phased out of service during 1963; thirteen aircraft were subsequently sold on via public tender, a number of which having been converted to civil Rapide configurations.
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No. 527 Squadron was formed from various calibration flights at RAF Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire on 15 June 1943 for radar calibration duties with Bristol Blenheims and Hawker Hurricanes. The squadron was engaged with the calibration of radar stations in southern England and East Anglia. The need for calibration units lessened considerably in 1944, so the squadron absorbed No. 528 Squadron RAF on 1 September 1944, extending its coverage in the process to Lincolnshire, and No. 526 Squadron RAF on 1 May 1945, adding the de Havilland Hornet Moths, Airspeed Oxfords and de Havilland Dominies of these units to its strength. The squadron standardised hereafter on Spitfires, Wellingtons, Oxfords and Dominies, the latter -old aircraft of 526 Squadron- still being based at RAF Longman, Inverness for communications flying.
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7, 10. During the war, Dominie production was performed by de Havilland and Brush Coachworks Ltd, the latter being responsible for the greater proportion of the work. The Dominies were mainly used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy for radio and navigation training. Other duties they were used for included passenger and communications missions.
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After the war the airport was converted to civilian use. On 23 January 1947 New Zealand National Airways Corporation begun their first commercial passenger air service was from Kaikohe. Flights continued onwards to Kaitaia in the north and on to Whangarei and Auckland in the south. The aircraft flown were Lockheed Electras and de Havilland Dominies. On 15 May 1950 NAC introduced the larger Lockheed Lodestar on its services to Kaikohe and Kaitaia.
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The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) is the oldest teachers' trade union in the world, having been founded in 1847 when dominies became concerned about the effect of changes to the system of education in Scotland on their professional status. The EIS is the largest teaching union in Scotland, representing 80% of the country's teachers and lecturers. it has 54,580 members. Since being granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria, it is the only union able to award degrees.
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Kiwi Aircraft Images Phillip Treweek. accessed Other aircraft included Dragonfly ZK-AFB (1937),Ed Coates' Civil Aircraft Photograph Collection accessed Fox Moth ZK-AGM (1938), Dragonfly ZK-AGP (1938), Dragon ZK-AHT (1944), and Dragon Rapide ZK-AHS (1944). Further aircraft flown by the company included Dominies ZK-AKT, ZK- BAU, and ZK-AKS, which were flown in various liveries. At first there were 14 landing grounds: Westport, Hokitika, Greymouth, Ross, Wataroa, Franz Josef and Fox glaciers, Karangarua, Jacobs River, Bruce Bay, Haast, Okuru and Upper Okuru.
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Introduced at the same time was a Whangarei - Kaikohe feeder service that was operated by Dominies. For a time Kaikohe was linked to 3 destinations, being Auckland, Whangarei and Kaitaia. The Lodestars did not last long on the Northland service for on 2 April 1951 Douglas DC-3s were introduced on the Auckland - Kaikohe - Kaitaia route. The feeder service from Whangarei was discontinued at the same time. The new DC-3 service continued to operate on this timetable until 1964, when it again arrived from Auckland via Whangarei.
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Brush Electrical Engineering also built some carriages that were used in the 1900s on the Central London Railway and the City and South London Railway, the respective forerunners of London Underground's Central and Northern lines. In all, about 250 steam locomotives were built in addition to the tram engines. Production finished after World War I and the company concentrated on transport-related electrical equipment, including tramcars, trolleybuses and battery-operated vehicles. In World War II Brush Coachworks diversified into aircraft production, building 335 de Havilland Dominies for the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm.
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Fairmead House, a former girls' school, was purchased for use as a senior boys' boarding house in 1946, with the war-time huts in the garden being put to various uses, and in 1952, Austral House, renamed "Dominies", was added as the headmaster's house. On the death of the founder in 1960, an advisory council was established to govern the school, chaired by Rt Rev'd Kenneth Riches, Bishop of Lincoln. The school became a charitable trust in 1964 and became co-educational in 1980. The school is named after Saint Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln but also Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln.
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When the old Rongotai airfield closed in 1957, the Herons were considered for the Nelson-Christchurch-Invercargill route but the aircraft were sold off to private operators instead. By then, only the DC-3 and Rapide/Dominies made up the NAC Fleet. The last type of piston engine airliner to be operated by NAC was a leased Mt Cook Airline Britten Norman BN2 Islander ZK-MCD, used during 1976-77 to operate a service on the Auckland - Whangarei - Kaitaia route. This was to allow services to operate while Kaitaia's compacted gravel runway was sealed for use by heavier aircraft.
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No 17 ERFTS was disbanded at that time, and No. 44 ERFTS at Elmdon was merged with No. 14 ERFTS at Castle Bromwich to form No. 14 EFTS. One further Airwork-run unit, No. 21 EFTS, was established at Booker in June 1941, with Miles Magisters supplementing the Tiger Moths then in use there and at all other EFTS. Through its sites at Gatwick and newer aerodromes at Staverton, Renfrew and Loughborough, Airwork also became a vital part of the Air Ministry's maintenance operations. Further aircrew training, for example No. 6 Air Observer navigation School at Staverton using Dominies and Ansons, also featured prominently.
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3 and 9 Air Depots were transferred to Brooklyn for the repair and assembly of aircraft. In the first year of its existence, 790 aircraft were assembled at Brooklyn, consisting of 254 Airspeed Oxfords, 154 Miles Masters, 148 Avro Ansons, 79 Harvards, 78 Fairey Battles, 63 Martin Baltimores, nine Bristol Beauforts and five de Havilland Dominies. Curtiss Kittyhawks and Hawker Hurricanes were also assembled at a later stage, but by the end of the war, the depots were now disposing of aircraft for scrap or exporting them. In 1946, the first jet aircraft to reach South Africa, a Gloster Meteor III, was assembled and flown at Brooklyn.
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For a while the Squadron operated a detached flight at RAF Wick running a regular service to Reykjavík in Iceland using de Havilland DH.91 Albatross aircraft, but when both were lost this was abandoned, the detached flight instead acquiring de Havilland Dominies, which were used to supply remote Scottish communities. From 1942 they began an association with the airborne forces and this role would show an increasing prominence in the Squadron's mission. Airborne training flights were a commonplace task during 1942 and 1943. The Squadron was transferred to the newly formed RAF Transport Command in March 1943, and was re-equipped with Douglas Dakotas from August, although a flight of Harrows were retained as air ambulances.
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