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1947
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JUNE 12TH, 1947 FLIGHT 563 was won by F/L. K. B. McGlashan, witha score of in, in slow, rapid and snap shooting at 600-300 yards. F/L. B. V.Browse won the Bronze Medal with 107. In the Past Members' Match and OldComrades' Cup, the Silver Medal was won by A. Cdre. S. Wallingford with136 points, and the Bronze Medal by S/L. C. Laceby-Stevens with 135.Winner of the Old Comrades' Challenge Cup was W/O. F. H. Ford, and theAuxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Cup and Silver Medal was won by B. Roberts,oi Notts University, with 138 points. On Thursday thirty-eight teams com-*ted for the Trenchard (Station) Rifle Skllnge Cup; R.A.F. Station Bos-combe Down were victorious, with 1,046 points. The R.A.F'. Revolver Champion-ship, Barton Cup, was won by F/'L. H. A. Steele with 177. In the RevolverTyro Competition F/L. Gill and P/O. Harper tied with 139. With a score of570, Leerriing won the Inter-station Re- volver Team Match. The Squadron RifleChallenge Cup was won by 238 Squad- ron, and in the Rifle Championship andGrand Aggregate Prize S/L. C. C. Willott, of Coastal Command, was vic-torious with 320 points. Second place was gained by W/C. Hampshire with Meteors in Malaya /~*REAT interest was aroused invJ Singapore and Malaya by the recent announcement that two Meteor IVfighters had arrived at R.A.F. Station, Tengah. They are now being assembledat the station workshops. Flying trials, to determine how the performance ofthis type will be affected by Far Eastern climatic conditions, will begin soon.These will last about two months and will involve thirty flying hours. Appc^ointments THE Air Ministry announces thefollowing Auxiliary Air Force appointments :—S/L. The Duke of Newcastle to com- mand No. 3617 (County of Hampshire)Air Defence Unit, A.A.F. S/L. Claude Merrick, D.F.C., to com-mand No. 3619 (County of Suffolk) Air Defence Unit, A.A.F.THE Air Ministry announces the following Royal Air Force appoint-ments : — Air Vice-Marshal Stephen CharlesStrafford, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C., to be Senior Air Staff Officer, Bomber Com-mand ; Air Commodore Thomas GeoffreyAdwler, C.B.E., to be Air Officer Com- manding No. 40 Group, MaintenanceCommand, with the acting rank of Air Vice-Marshal. Air Vice-Marshal Strafford has beenAir Officer Commanding, R.A.F. Iraq, since July, 1945, and was formerly AirOfficer in charge of Administration at R.A.F. Headquarters, Middle East, fromDecember, 1944- Previously he was Chief of Operations and Plans at theHeadquarters of the Allied Expedi- tionary Air Force, to which position hewas appointed in May, 1944. after having been engaged on Air Staff plan-ning duties at A.E.A.F. Headquarters for six months following a period ofsimilar duties at the Air Ministry. • For two years from June, 1941, he wasDirector of Plans, Royal Air Force Delegation, Washington, after havingserved at the Air Ministry, in the Directorate of Plans, for six months.Early in the war he commanded a de- tachment of the Advanced Air StrikingForce in France. Born in November, 1898, atCirencester, he was educated at Ciren- cester Grammar School and the ThamesNautical Training School. Air Vice-Marshal Bowler has been AirOfficer Commanding No. 42 Group, Maintenance Command, since Novem-ber, 1945, and was formerly A.O.C. of No. 57 Wing, Maintenance Command,from August, 1944. Previously he had been for six years at the Air Ministryin the Directorate-General of Equip- ment of one of the departments of whichhe was director from May, 1942. Air Vice-Marshal Bowler was born atWandsworth on March 1, 1895, and was educated at All Saints' School, Bloxhatn. Canadian and Australian Vampires IN a letter to de Havilland Airportofficials, the Hon. Brooke Claxton, Canadian Minister of Defence, has dis-closed that Canadian fighter squadrons should be fully equipped with Vampiresearly in 1948. The first of "around a hundred" machines are now beingcrated in Great Britain, and should arrive in Canada early in July. The senior test pilot of the R.A.A.F.—S/L. R. Gumming, A.F.C.—recently air tested the first Vampire to fly inAustralia. This aircraft is on loan from the R.A.F. and has been sent to Austra-lia to familiarize R.A.A.F. pilots with its characteristics. Nene-engined Vam-pires are to be built in Australia. Canadian Jet Fighter IN addition to the new twin-jet trans-port mentioned last week, the Malton plant of A. V. Roe (Canada), Ltd.,are to build a new long-range high- speed, jet-propelled fighter for theR.C.A.F. Also projected are two new turbine jet units, one of which, it isclaimed, will rank as the most powerful in the world. Indian Air Commodore AN Indian officer of the Royal IndianAir Force has been promoted to air rank. He is A.Cdre. Subrota Mukerjee,O.B.E., deputy assistant to the Air Officer in charge of Administration atAir Headquarters, India. The Air Com- modore is the most senior officer in theR.I.A.F., and was the first Indian officer to be commissioned in it on its forma-tion as the Indian Air Force in August, 1932.Late last year A.Cdre. Mukerjee came to England to attend the Air MinistryCommand Training Conference, and afterwards took a radio familiarizationcourse at the Empire Radio School, COUNTERPARTS : By the time these comparative views of the Avro Lincoln (top)and Boeing B-29 Superfortress have been printed, residents and holidaymakergjw1 Southern England should have seen nine B-295 on one of their two godnlwilfflfghtsover the British Isles.
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