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104 FLIGHT AUGUST 12TH, 1948 AVIATION > - *\FT(gM" photograph. VjU GENERAL SALUTE : The impressive spectacle at No. I School of Techn,cal Training when Air Marshal Sir Leslie HothnghuiSt- £aaife<ttoe- •,* salute at the Passing-out Inspection on July 28th. A report of the inspection appeared in the previous issue of "Flight." >:• Naval At'rcra/t in Canada NUMBER 80G Squadron of the NavalAir Arm, whose display lately im- pressed hundreds of thousands of Ameri-cans at the National Air Exposition in New York, has flbwn to Canada from theUnited States to take part in the Cana- dian National Exhibition at Toronto(August 27th to September nth). The Royal Canadian Navy will attach aFlight of their aircraft to the Royal Naval Squadron during the period of theexhibition. No. 806 Squadron is com- manded by Lieutenant-Commander D. B.Law, D.S.C., R.N., and it includes a Sea Vampire, Sea Furies and Sea Hornets. . ,Rear-Admiral The Mackintosh : of Mackintosh, C.B., D.S.O., D.S.C.^ Vice-Controller Air and Chief of Naval Air Equipment, who is .temporarily in theU.SsA-., has congratulated the Squadron on an "exceptionally fine and polished'display'' given in New York, his message adding: "You made a profoundimpression on coo,000 people who saw your .show." CAS. with R.O.C. MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIRFORCE LORD TEDDER visited No. 17 (Watford) Group, Royal ObserverCorps, during the Southern Area Exercise held on July 25th, and was greatly inter-ested in the work of the Operations Room personnel. He then visited R.O.C. postsin the Group, and No. 11 (F) Group Filter Room at Stanmore. The Exercise-gave many of the 3,000 Observers taking part their first opportunity to plot jetaircraft. These included Meteors and Vampires of the R.A.F., the VickersNene-Viking on route to Paris, and Shooting Stars of the U.S.A.F. Royal Air Force and Na va I A via tion News and Announcements Transatlantic Vampires on Tour GENERAL HOYT A. VANDEN- vJ BER<i. U.S. Chief of Air Staff;attended an impressive demonstration by the four R.A.F. Vampires at AndrewsField, Washington, on Monday, July 26th. Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Med-hurst was also present as well as most. of the foreign air attaches in the capital.The flying was done by S/L. R. \V. Ox- " spring, F/L. E. W. Wright and Pilot I.-Evans, in formation, and the soloist was F/L. "Jeep" Heiale. A luncheon inhonour of the Varripire pilots was given by General Vandenberg after he had in-spected the Squadron. There was little doubt that No. 54's unique flying wasappreciated by the expert audience at Andrews Field. The same afternoon the force wentdown to Greenville, South Carolina, headquarters of the 9th Air Force, togive an aerobatic display on the same lines as at Washington, and also to takepart in exercises originally dubbed " Exercise 200," altered to " ExerciseVampire " by the Air Force. The exer- cises took place on both the 27th andthe following day. On the first day four of the Vampires* led by S/L. R. N. H.Omrtney, acted as defenders of the Greenville base, with the object of pro-tecting it from attack by Mustangs. The Mustangs operated from Turner Field,Albany, Georgia, and were intercepted two miles south-west of the base, which vthey had intended to strafe. Camera gun ,;;i shots from the Vampires were subse- '*quently analysed. ••" ; t: ; .On the following-day f^e Vampires were the ", en^my "-wing. Their objec-tive was pneumatic targets 150 miles from'Greenville base. Pneumatic targetsare inflated rubber replicas of tanks, etc., and were ^situated at a range near SaintPaul, South Carolina. Protecting the . objective Were Thunderjets. The Vam-';j|pires got through to thfcir objective and/ rnad(f three diving attacks. On the wayback they encountered the Thunder jets and a" satisfactory scrap resulted. Theexercise proved the ability of the joint .Operational • Control Centre at Green-ville to handle British jets. The displaygiven on the previous dayattracted visitors from considerable dis- tances-and some 12,000 people watchedt-he Vampires put on a spectacular show. A wartime American pilot, now ajournalist, describing the display in the Greenville News, a daily newspaper,said: '' The pilots of these four planes gave Greenville the most remarkable pre-cision flying seen in aviation here. . • • It was these loops and slow rolls in for-mation that (attracted cries and gasps." R.A.F.A. Celebration ON Sunday, September 12th, the KovalAir Forces Association will gelebrate"^ the victory of the Battle of Britain by aFestival to be held in the Royal Albtrr Hall. This will be a unique productionincorporating stage and screen. 1 he story depicts thirty years of the historyof the Royal Air Force together with (In- formation and advancement of the RoyalAir Forces Association. A "live' se- quence dealing with the formation of the
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