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1948
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JULY IST, 1948 FLIGHT 27 Service Aviation than 600 observers were on duty at 111"spotter" posts, ranging from St. Bos- well's and Kirkcudbright north toHuntly and Macduff. The posts them- selves varied from seashore to mountaintop. Leading Observer Meikle kept watch on aircraft nearing Turnhousefrom the top of the huge pit-head at Winchburgh, West Lothian, after he andhis assistants had been hauled up to their post in one of the trolleys used fordumping shale. They were smothered in dust before their four-hour shift wascompleted. The exercise went off extremelysmoothly, but officers of the Corps were careful to emphasize that many morerecruits for all branches of the service are required before the R.O.C. could re-sume the operational role it fulfilled in the war years. Present strength of theCorps in Scotland is about 1,600, com- pared with a wartime strength of 7,000.The Scottish Area Commandant (Obs. Capt. J. M. Miller) visited the AberdeenOperations Room during the exercise and his Deputy (Obs. Commander Q Dunlop)went to Dundee. It is hoped to hold an exercise in August for the other threegroups of Scottish Area—Oban, Inverness and Dunfermline—and full-scale exer-cises are planned for next year. . Light A. A. AppointmentM ANAGER of Dyce Airport, Aber-deen, for the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Mr. A. Carrie, has been ap-pointed Officer Commanding No. 2612 Light A.A. Squadron of the RoyalAuxiliary Air Force, and has the rank of squadron leader. Mr. Carrie was managerat Doncaster Airport before the war. Permanent Commissions HE following officers have been selected for permanent commissions in the R.A.F. in the branches indicated. General Duties Branch W/C. G. K. Buckingham, D.F.C. " Flight " photograph. WEARING WELL : At the Wolverhampton works of Bouiton Paul Airr*PfifUt^i ^^ Mk. 10s are being converted for crew-training. Having been thoroughly stripped and re-covered they are fitted with a nose fairing as shown. The tail turret is retained. T S/L.s F. E. W. Birchfield, O.B.E.; R. C. Haine, D.F.C. Technical Branch S/L.s J. E. Barber, O.B.E.; G. G. Cole, M.B.E.; H. F. Davis; S. R. New- ton, O.B.E. F/L.s F. J. C. Cooper; A. B. Haskell, M.B.E.; W. C. Hewlett; H. H. King, B.E.M.; H. A. Oldfield; E. J. Part- ridge; E. G. Revell. Equipment BranchW/C. R. M. W. Henderson. S/L.s R. S. Harries; H. R. Johns.F/L. J. A. Todd. Secretarial Branch F/L. E. I. Williams. Provost BranchW/C. B. W. S. Smith. S/L. J. R. Coulson; H. Mundy. Short Service Commissions '"THE following officers of the -R.A.F. -»- have been appointed to short service commissions in the branches shown: — BETWEEN SHOOTS : A Spitfire 16 of No. 604 Squadron, R. Aux. A.F. is refuelled, between air firing sorties, at Thorney Island, where the Squadron's first annual summer camp ended on June 12th. Left to right are Pilot II Hicks, F/0. Cillett, Pilot I Goodman and F/0. Hodgkinson. The CO. is S/L. K. T. Lofts, D.F.C. Hours flown during camp were 126. General Duties BranchF/L.s M. H. Castle; G. S. Wilkes. F/O.s J. S. S. Hay; G. A. Sherrat;F. M. Taylor. Technical BranchF/L.s F. J. A. Blagden; J. Crane; R. W. Huntley; J. W. St. John.F/O. S. J. Webb. Equipment Branch F/L.s R. A. Albonico; L. B. Davey; J. Edge; R. A. Langton. F/O.s E. D. Artus, I. H. Hodgkiss; T. Pilkington; D. E. Spencer. Secretarial Branch F/L.s D. MacDonald; J. MacD. Munro; R. H. Wybrants. F/O.s J. M. Kenworthy; E. V. Stephenson. Chaplains BranchRev. P. J. Hendron (Roman Catholic). Catering Branch F/O. W. R. Tamblyn. Physical Fitness Branch F/O.s F. Green; D. E. C. Keeling; R. D. Mullins. Observer VisitM ORE than three thousand membersof the Royal Observer Corps had their first opportunity lately of see-ing, the R.A.F. jet fighters in action at close quarters. Fifteen hundred men andwomen observers were invited to Hor- sham St. Faith, near Norwich, a similarnumber to Linton-on-Ouse, near York, and 300 to Acklington, near Newcastle.The normal training of the R.O.C. in- volves duty at isolated observer posts oroperational rooms, and the observers have few chances of seeing the fightersthey help to direct to their targets. Station Commanders explained how theinformation supplied from the posts en- ables Fighter Command aircraft to reachtheir objective. The observers were shown round thestations, inspected aircraft on the ground, watched flying displays, and par-ticipated in height-judging competitions. R.A.F. Transport Command aircraftgave them flights. The three stations are all in No. 12 Group, R.A.F. FighterCommand, and the Air Officer Command- ing (Air Vice-Marshal T. C. Traill, whofostered the rallies) and the Commandant of the R.O.C. (Air Commodore the Earlof Bandon) were at Horsham St. Faith which, like Linton-on-Ouse, is a fightersector headquarters.
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