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Aviation History
1949
1949 - 0811.PDF
FLIGHT Not s tactical formation, but ittusttmtve af piie Central Fighter Establishment . involves not only standard Service* equipment, but new weapons and devices. Tactical trials are under- taken at the direction of the Air Ministry and of Fighter Command, as a unit of which the C.F.E. is established. To discharge its duties efficiently the C.F.E. collaborates intimately with Home and Overseas Commands ; the principal research and development centres (R.A.E., A. and A.E.E. and T.R.E.) ; the Central Bomber Establishment ; the Empire Schools (E.A.A.S., E.F.S., and E.A.N.S.) ; the R.A.F. Staff College ; and—among other miscellaneous schools and units—the school of Land/Air Warfare. Not the least of its responsibilities is the training qf day and night fighter leaders and, in the case of night fighter leaders, their navigators. Organization is based upon three principal components—the directing staff (including specialist officers and the Tactics Branch) ; the unit administrative headquarters ; and the Flying Wing, commanded by G/C. V. S. Bowling, C.B.E., which comprises the Air Fighting Development Squadron, Fighter Interception Development Squadron, Fighter Support Development Squadron, Day Fighter Leaders' School, and Night Fighter Leaders' School. Though under the operational control of the Admiralty, the Naval component (Naval Air Fighting Development Unit) is administered by the C.F.E. For consultation on all air matters affecting the Army, except anti- aircraft, there is also an Army component (likewise under C.F.E.'s administrative control) ; it assists in the development of fighter support technique and in the training of fighter leaders and Air Liaison Officers. Under the direction of Group Captain J H. Edwardes-Jones, C.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., the Tactics Branch is responsible in peacetime for disseminating the doctrines of the C.F.E. throughout the United Kingdom, overseas Commands and the Commonwealth. The greatest value is attached to personal contact, exemplified by a recently completed tour to Air Command Far East, Australia and New Zealand. Every year, at a tactical convention, specialists from home and overseas Commands and from the Dominions and the U.S.A. are addressed by lecturers of the Branch on.
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