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1948
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£ JULY 22ND, 1948 FLIGHT III SERVICE AVIATION READY-MADE AIRFIELD : Sunderlands are operating to and from the Havel Lake in Berlin in an endeavour to supply the British sector by air. Extra runways which are now being laid to alleviate crowding at airfields will take some time to construct. "Ocean" HomeT HE 14,000-tons light fleet carrier H.M.S. Ocean (Captain W. R. C. Leggatt, D.S.O., R.N.) arrived at her home port of Devonport on July 1st, having completed a two-and-a-half years commission on the Mediterranean Sta- tion. Her aircraft had already been disembarked at Glasgow. Since she went to Malta in January, 1946, she has steamed more than 58,000 nautical miles, and approximately 6,000 landings have been made on her deck by aircraft. Auxiliary AppointmentT HE Air Ministry announces the fol- lowing Royal Auxiliary Air Force appointment: — it Wing Commander John Arden Caul- Hield Houghton to command No. 3617 (County of Hampshire) Air Defence Unit, vice Wing Commander the Duke of New- castle, O.B.E., transferred to the Royal Auxiliary Air Force Reserve of Officers. The Air Ministry also announces the following appointment: — Wing Commander Hector MacLean to command No. 3602 (City of Glasgow) Air Defence Unit, R.Aux.A.F. R.A.F. Rifle Team Wins Again AFTER winning the Inter-Services ** Small Bore Rifle Match last month the R.A.F. scored another success when they won the United Services Challenge Cup at Bisley on July gth. The total score—x '359 out of a possible 1,600—is a record j°r this competition which is competed ft>r by teams representing the Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and the territorial Army. Captained by W/O. R- Bennett the winning team, with in- dividual scores in parentheses, was coin- Posed of S/L. C. C. Willett (184), F/L. H. A. Steele (176), Cpl. J. Witts (173). F/S. A. E. Williams (171), F/L. A. D. Woodcock (171), F/L. H. Gill (170), W/C W. H. Hampshire (163), and A/C. D. Warner (151); the possible score in each case was 200. Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News and Announcements R.O.C. Scottish Exercise ON Sunday next the Royal ObserverCorps in the north of Scotland will be going into action for the first time since the war. No. 39 Group, which did not participate in last month's exercise, will hold a large-scale exercise with the co-operation of R.A.F. reconnaissance Lancasters and naval aircraft from the R.N.A.S. Lossiemouth. The centre of the operation will be the former R.A.F. operations room at Raigmore House, In- verness, where reports from 120 obser- vers manning 27 posts will be received. Recruits are still needed throughout the group, particularly in Inverness. There are at present 145 observers en- rolled for post duty and 30 for centre duties, but at least twice as many are required for the posts and three times the number for the Inverness centre. Because of the lack of response on the part of men volunteers, the Fortrose post, at the entry to the Moray Firth, will be manned entirely by women for Sunday's exercise. Thirty observers from Oban will visit tlje Inverness centre to gain experience in ops room work. Commissions in Qround Branches /^ENERAL Duties Officers on emer-^•J gency, short service or extended service commissions may now be recom-mended for permanent commissions in ground branches. Confirmation of thepermanent commission will depend on completing training or a period of dutysatisfactorily. Naval Promotions TNCLUDED in the Admiralty promo- •*• tion list is the name of Captain Edmund Walter Anstice, R.N., who has been promoted to the rank of rear- admiral with effect from July 10th, 1948. Born in 1899, Admiral Anstice is an officer with wide experience of naval aviation. He was assistant director in the Naval Air Division at the Admiralty at the outbreak of war, and served in com- mand of aircraft carriers. In May, 1944, he became Chief of Staff to the Flag Officer Carrier Training and in August of the following year was Commodore Flying Training. Entry to U.A.S.s OTUDENTS who enter a university »J after completing their full-time National Service in the R.A.F., whether they have been partially trained as pilots or have received no pilot training at all, may now be accepted for mem- bership of University Air Squadrons. Hitherto, membership has been confined to students provisionally selected for permanent commissions in the Royal Air Force, students without previous service in H.M. Forces, and ex-Air Force pilots qualified up to basic standard. Before the war there were only three University Air Squadrons—at OxfoYd, Cambridge and London. These were
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