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1947
1947 - 0736.PDF
43° FLIGHT MAY 8TH, 1947 V SERVICE AVIATION SPECIALIST : Designed specifically as a carrier-borne torpedo-bomber and possessing all design features essential in anaircraft of this class, the new Blackburn S. 28/43 (Y.A.I.) is now undergoing initial flight trials at Brough. King Christian's Funeral THE Air Council and the Royal AirForce were represented at the funeral of the late King Christian of Denmarkby A.V-M. R. A. George, C.B.E., M.C., the Air Attache in Paris. The King's Flight THE four Vickers Vikings of theKing's Flight have completed more than 160,000 miles flying withoutincident. Three of them lately returned to R.A.F. Station Benson, the King'smachine having covered 7,500 miles in 54 hr. Leaving Capetown at 12.30 a.m.011 Friday, April 25th, it reached Benson at 6.32 a.m. on the following Sunday,and at 7.51 a.m. the next day took off again for South Africa. It was to bepresent at an air display in Johannes- burg on May 3rd and was scheduled tofly 15,000 miles in five days. The Queen's aircraft "(VL247) leftCapetown at 6 a.m. on Friday and landed at Benson at 1.30 p.m. on Mon-day; and the stafi aircraft (VL245) left Capetown at the same time and landedat Benson at 1.54 p.m. on Monday. VL245 left Benson again for Capetownat 9 a.m. on Tuesday, and VL247 at 8 a.m. on Wednesday. The five flights of the Royal Familywere from Bloemfontein to Bultfontein 30 min), and return; from Pretoria toPietersburg (1 hr 20 min) and return; and from Pretoria to Salisbury (2 hr50 min). The King and Princess Mar- garet travelled in the King's aircraft,and the Queen and Princess Elizabeth in the Queen's. The two Princesses weretaken for a ij hr flight over the Cape Peninsula in the King's aircraft fromBrooklyn Airport, Capetown. In addi- tion, General Smuts was flown twice—once from Capetown to Pretoria, and Sir Evelyn Baring, the High Commis-sioner to South Africa, on three occasions. Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News and Announcements Throughout the whole of the tour tteFlight ran smoothly, and the only thing approaching an "incident" was whenthe King was being flown near Pieters- burg and the Viking collided with asnake bird. The nose of the aircraft was dented. Lincolns for Canada NO. 617 Squadron of Bomber Com-mand, equipped with Lincolns, will make a formation training flight toCanada and the U.S.A. during July. C.A.S.'s Exercise "Thunderbolt"T HE Chief of the Air Staff, Marshalof the R.A.F. Lord Tedder, is to hold a conference with Commanders-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force at Old Sarum on nth and 12th August, 1947,at which matters of domestic concern to the Royal Air Force will be discussed.An exercise will follow, to which senior officers of the R.A.F. and other Servicesand of the Dominions Air Forces, and officials of the Ministry of Defence willbe invited. The object of the C.A.S.'s Exercise—"Thunderbolt," as it is called—is to study the strategy and conduct of thecombined bomber offensive from Janu- ary, 1943, to the end of the EuropeanWar, with special reference to the situa- tion in the Spring of 1944; and to de-duce lessons from this campaign which can be applied to future strategy. Recent scientific advances will affectair warfare as well as land'and sea war- fare, but since the implications of new-weapons cannot yet be fully appreciated, this first post-war R.A.F. exercise is limited, except for a brief period to warding.;the end, to the study of weapons as wel. know them today. Some of the lessons*which emerge may well be subject to .modification in the light of new develop-ments ; these aspects will be studied in future exercises. The Exercise will begin with a review;;.;of the enemy situation and our own at" the beginning of 1943 and a joint plan-ning conference will be simulated to bring out the various factors which led to the^formulation, at the Casablanca Confer-:' ence, of the directive which governed theoperation of the combined British and'. United States strategic bomber forces?-until the end of the war. jfv Lectures and discussions will show how-target systems were selected and how-, they were dealt with; how the offensiveled to the smashing of the power of the German Air Force and the consequent^ascending scale of our air superiority?"- the switching of the effort from Germanyon to invasion tasks from March, 1944, to September, 1944; and the swingingback of the bombers on to German 1 fcrSB/ft September, 1944, for the final decisi^pdestruction of the enemy's oil and com- munications. During the Exercise a meeting of theCombined Strategic Targets Committee will be simulated. ReunionP AST and present members of 612Squadron (all ranks) interested in a proposed reunion should write to S/L.W. A. Cormack, R.A.F., Mar-ham, Norfolk. Lincoln for Empire Radio School A NEW aircraft—a Mark II Lincoln,bearing the name Mercury IT—will be used by the Empire Radio School,Debden, on its next liaison mission, this time to Canada and the U.S.A. TheLincoln will supersede the Halifax VI named Mercury, in which its two pre-
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