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FLIGHT JUNE 12TH, 1947 SERVICE AVIATION R.A.F. Debden. Before he returned toIndia he visited all the R.I.A.F. officers —about forty-five—attending R.A.F.courses in the U.K. H.M.S. Vengeance for Norway HPHE First Sea Lord. Admiral Sir ]ohnJ- H. D. Cunningham, G.C.B., M.V.O., flying his flag in the aircraft carrierH.M.S. Vengeance (Capt. J. H. F. Crom- bie, D.S.O., R.N.), arrived in Oslo lastThursday as the guest of the Royal Nor- wegian Navy. The Royal TournamentT O-DAY the Royal Tournament opensat Olympia. Nearly 800 R.A.F. and VV.A.A.F. officers, airmen and air-women, are taking part. A demonstra- tion of elementary and ceremonial pre-cision drill is given by airmen recruits of the Advanced Drill Course; this in-cludes the traditional ceremony of Lowering the Colour, for which musicis provided by the pipers and trumpeters of the R.A.F. Apprentices' School. Home Fleet Summer Cruise TPHE summer cruise of the Home Fleet•*• started on May 31st, when most units oi the Fleet sailed from Portlandunder the command of Admiral Sir Neville Syfret, K.C.B., K.B.E., flyinghis flag in the Duke of York. From July 18th to July 27th the Fleet will be in theClyde, the object of their visit being an expression of appreciation for the helpthe Navy received from Clydeside during the war In addition to the battleshipsDuke of York, Anson and Howe, and the cruisers Superb., Cleopatra, Diadem,Dido and Sinus, the aircraft carriers Vengeance and Illustrious are expectedto be present. Scottish A.A.F. DisplaysM ORE than 8,000 citizens of Edin-burgh accepted the invitation of No. 603 (City of Edinburgh) FighterSquadron A.A.F., to visit them at Turn- house on Whit-Saturday. A. Cdre. E. S.Burns, Air Officer Commanding No. 66 (Scottish Reserve) Group, inspected thesquadron, drawn up in front of its Spit- fires, together with a detachment ofEdinburgh A.T.C. cadets A display of aerobatics in a Spitfireby F/L R. S. Kingsford was fallowed by a gliding demonstration by No. 6(Scottish) Gliding School. A.T.C. Spit- fires and Harvards were flown over byNo. 602 (Glasgow), 612 (Aberdeen) and 607 (County of Durham) Squadrons, andSeafires and a Barracuda from the Royal Naval Air Station, Donibristle, alsocalled in. A Lancaster flew over at 50ft on two engines, and the flying pro-gramme was completed by a fly-past of 603 Squadron's Spitfires, led by S/L.G. K. Gilroy. D.S.O., D.F.C. A crew demonstrated the 40 mm Bofors gunswhich will eventually be manned by the new 2603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron,A.A.F. Regiment. On May 21st more than 15,000 peopleflocked to Dyce to visit No. 612 (City of Aberdeen) Fighter Squadron, A.A.F.A wide variety of aircraft was on view —Lincolns, Lancasters, Liberators, Sea-fires, Fireflies, Spitfires, .Harvards and Tiger Moths—and there would have been IMPORTANT MESSENGER : A.V-M. P. E. Maitland, C.B.E., M.V.O., A.F.C., A.O.C.84 Group, B.A.F.O., chats with W/C. Kearon during a visit in his Messenger to the gliding site at Oerlinghausen. An account of B.A.F.O. gliding activities appears in this issue. more but for the fact that the Spitfiresof. the Edinburgh and Glasgow A.A.F. Squadrons were fogbound. A Lincolnflew past on four, three, two, and finally one engine. A.T.C. cadets and their in-structors gave a gliding display, and the Aberdeen wing of the Corps paraded foran inspection by A Cdre Burns. A.T.C. Entry Age APPROVAL for the minimum age ofentry into the Air Training Corps to be lowered by three months (to 15years) has just been given by the Air Ministry. Prospective cadets will stillhave to serve a probationary period of three months. Midland R.N.V.R. SquadronT HE four R.N.V.R. Air Squadronsestablished by the Admiralty now include a unit to be based at the formerTransport Command airfield at Bram- cote, near Nuneaton. The squadron willbe equipped at the outset with six Sea- fires and two Harvards, and should beoperating by the middle of August. Other squadrons now forming are theFighter Anti-Submarine Unit at Abbots- inch and fighter squadrons at Stretton,near Liverpool, and the Royal Naval Air Station, Culham, w7hich will serve theLondon-Oxford area. Medical Branch—S.S. CommissionsA PPROVAL has been given to ascheme to grant short-service corn- missions to registered medical men ofBritish nationality who wish to serve in the R.A.F. Medical Branch, or who wishto re-enter the Service. By its terms, doctors under 30 years of age on appli-cation (for the next few years the age will be 32), will be considered for thegrant of commissions for a period of four years on the active list, followed by aperiod of four years on the reserve. During his service on the active list amedical officer will be considered for the grant of a permanent commission.Should he not be selected for this type of commission he will be eligible for agratuity of £600 on leaving the Service on completion of four years' active listservice. t ^ Trans-Australian Mosquito A MOSQUITO of the Royal AustralianAir Force, averaging 364 m.p.h. on a 5-hour flight from Pearce in West Aus-tralia to Point Cook, Victoria, clipped 1 hr 1 min from the previous "record,"held by an A.N.A. Skymaster. Combined North Sea Ops. /"^OASTAL Command Sunderlands,^-/ which should have taken part in the air-sea exercises in the North Sea lastMonday, were fog-bound at Alness, and bad flying weather made the operationof other aircraft extremely difficult. Units of the Home Fleet were on passagebetween the Pentland Firth and Norway, and Coastal aircraft, operating from Scot-tish bases, had been detailed to locate and shadow them. The first Lancaster took off on recon-naissance from Leuchars in the early morning, when the cloud base is reportedto have been down to about 100ft. Over the North Sea conditions were similarthroughout most of the 7^-hour flig^ and on its return the Lancaster hadbe diverted to Dyce. The whole operation was controlled byArea Combined Headquarters, Rosyth, and the aircraft were under the opera-tional direction of Headquarters, 18 Group, Coastal Command. Reunions A REUNION party for 224 Groupofficers will be held in the Connaught Rooms, London, on Saturday, June'28th, 1947. All officers who served in 224 Group H.Q., or in any 224 Groupunit, between January, 1942, and October, 1945, including A.L.O.s,N.L.O'.s and Air Formation Signals attached to the Group, are invited.Tickets, £1 per head, can be obtained from S/L. J. W. Chance. T6, St.George's Square, London, S.W.i.
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