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1948
1948 - 0407.PDF
MARCH 25TH, 1948 FLIGHT 341 SERVICE AVIATION GENERAL SALUTE : The scene at ihe Ha/ton Passing-Out Parade reported in " Flight " last week. R.A.F. AppointmentT HE Air Ministry announces theappointment of A.V-M. Alick Charles Stevens, C.B., as Air Officer Command-ing British Forces, Aden. A.V-M. Stevens has been Air OfficerCommanding No. 22 Group, Technical Training Command, since October, 1946,and was formerly A.O.C. No. 4 Group, Transport Command, from December,1945. In the recent war he served at the Air Ministry, in the Directorate ofOperations, from September, 1939, to September, 1940, and afterwards asDeputy Director, and later as Director, of Naval Co-operation until June, 1943,when he became Senior Air Staff Otlicer, No. 18 Group, Coastal Command. Hewas A.O.C. Gibraltar, from June, 1944, Jjmtil August, 1945, when he returned to^ne United Kingdom to take command of No. 47 Group, Transport Command. Naval AppointmentT HE following appointment is an-nounced:—Rear Admiral M. J. Mansergh, C.B., C.B.E., to be FlagOfficer Commanding, Third Aircraft Car- rier Squadron; the appointment to takeeffect in July, 1948. Rear Admiral Mansergh has been serv-ing as Naval Secretary to the First Lord since February, 1946. When war brokeout he was Director of Trade Division in the Admiralty. In November, 1941, hewas appointed to the command of the cruiser H.M.S. Gambia. His next ap-pointment was as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Allied Naval Commander Expedi-tionary Force (the late Admiral Sir Ber- tram Ramsay). In June the followingyear, soon after D-Day, he was appointed Chief of Staff to Admiral Ramsay withthe rank of Commodore First Class. Rear Admiral Mansergh returned to seain March, 1945, on his appointment as Commodore Commanding 15th CruiserSquadron and was for a short period Commodore in Charge Levant andEastern Mediterranean. Flag Officer (Air) (Home) Visits BramcoteV ICE-ADMIRAL R. H. PORTAL,C.B., D.S.C., visited Royal Naval Air Station, Bramcote, the Navy's mostinland establishment, on Sunday, March 14th. The primary function of Bram- Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News and Announcements cote is the training of Air Maintenancejjersonnel, and some eight hundred trainees were inspected by, and marchedpast, the Admiral during an impressive ceremony.Bramcote, which is commanded by Captain G. N. Brewer, D.S.O., R.N., isalso the . headquarters of No. 1833 (R.N.V.R.) Squadron, and during theparade, Seafires and Harvards of this squadron, flew past the saluting base.Subsequently, the Admiral inspected and addressed the officers and maintenancepersonnel of the squadron. No. r833 Squadron is the youngest oithe Navy's four R.N.V.R. Squadrons, having formed on August 15th, 1947. Itis commanded by Lieutenant Commander H. M. Scott, R.N.V.R., a Leicestersolicitor, and the pilots are drawn from all parts of the Midlands, notably War-wickshire and Leicestershire. During his address, Vice-Admiral Portal recalled thefine wartime record of No. 183.' Squadron, which operated Corsairs fromcarriers in the Pacific. Sir Roderic Hill Retiring T^HE Air Ministry announces that Aii-L Chief Marshal Sir Roderic M. Hill, K.C.B., M.C., A.F.C., A.D.C., will retirefrom the Royal Air Force on the termin- ation of his present appointment ofMember of the Air Council for Technical ' Services early next June. The name ofhis successor will be announced shortly. Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill hasbeen Air Member for Technical Services since the post was established on thecreation of a new Department of the Air Ministry on January 1st, 1947, to be re-sponsible for all aspects of the technical work of the Royal Air Force in so far asthese were not the concern of the Air Staff. The post of Air Member forTraining, which he previously held for 18 months, was then abolished. He trans-ferred from the Royal Flying Corps to the Royal Air Force on its formation in IQI8 and nearly half of his 30 years' ser-vice with the force has been spent in appointments of a technical nature,among them those of Officer in Charge of the Experimental Flying Departmentat the R.A.E., Farnborough; Deputy Director of Repair and Maintenance andDirector of Technical Development, Air Ministry; Director-General of Researchand Development, Ministry of Aircraft Production; and Controller of TechnicalServices in the British Air Commission, Washington. Before he became AirMember for Technical Services he was, as Air Member for Training, responsible,among other things, for the technical training of the R.A.F. He was among the first (in 1922) toexperiment with a radio telephony re- ceiver in the air and during his time atFarnborough (1917-23) he took part in numerous early flying experiments relat-ing to radio control of aircraft, aero- engines, aerodynamics and the structureof aircraft. In 1921 he won the R. M.
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