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1949
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JUNE 2ND, 1949 FLIGHT 603 Service Aviation mains at £1 per year, also covers mem-bership of the Pathfinder Club, which is situated in Mount Street, London,W.i, and offers excellent food and luxurious residential quarters. Subjectto proposal by Pathfinders, membership of the club is also open to other membersof the three Services at a subscription of £2 2s per year. R.Aux.A.F. Summer CampsT WO squadrons of the Royal AuxiliaryAir Force are to spend their two-week annual camp at Sylt, inGermany. The Vampire 1 aircraft of No. 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron,commanded by S/L. R. C. T. Goodwin, will arriv£ on June 18th, and No. 615(County of Surrey) Squadron, flying Spit- fires and commanded by S/L. A. Barker, D.F.C, on August 20th. Both squadronswill fly from their bases to R.A.F. Manston, from which they will make the375-mile hop across the North Sea to Sylt. An intensive programme of training—identical with that of the R.A.F.—has been arranged at the Sylt armament prac-tice camp, with concentrated air-to-air and air-to-ground firing exercises. Training camps for the other Auxiliarysquadrons will take place at three regular fighter stations—Thorney Island, Tang-mere and Horsham St. Faith. Present arrangements are as follows: — Thorney Island: 600 (City of London) Sqn., Junellth-25th; 613 (City of Manchester) Sqn., June 2Sth-Jnly 9th; 612 (County of Aberdeen) Sqn., Julyflth-23rd; 609 (W. Riding) Sqn. and 610 (County of Chester) Sqn., July 23rd-August 6th; 611 (W.Lanes) Sqn. and 616 (S. Yorkshire) Sqn., August 6th-20th); 500 (County of Kent) Sqn., August 20th-September 3rd. Tangmere: 604 (County of Middlesex) Sqn., May28th-June 11th; 601 (County of London) Sqn., June llth-22nd; 608 (N. Biding) Sqn., June 9th-Jnly 9th;502 (Ulster) Sqn., July 9th-23rd; 501 (County of Gloucester) Sqn., August €th-20th. Horsham St. Faith: 504 (County of Nottingham)Sqn., June 25th-July 9th; 603 (City of Edinburgh) Sqn., July 2nd-16th; 602 (City of Glasgow) Sqn.,July 16th-30th; 607 (County of Durham) Sqn., July 23rd-August 6th; 614 (County of Glamorgan) Sqn..August 6th-20th. . • • TOUGH HOMBRE: The Bristol Brigand attack-bomber "totes" four 20mm. guns and 3,2001b of bombs, or, alternatively to bombs, eight rocket projectiles and a double ration •"-.;*,, .-_:• . • of ammunition for the guns. N R.A.F. Appointments EW overseas appointments an- nounced by the Air Ministry are those of A.V-M. F. J. W. Mellersh, C.B.E., A.F.C, as A.O.C. Air Headquarters, Malaya, and of A.V-M. R. S. Blucke, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., A.F.C, who succeeds him as Air Officer in Charge of Ad- ministration, Air Command, Far East. Both appointments take effect from May 13th. Before going to the Far East last August, A.V-M. Mellersh commanded No. 21 Group, Flying Training Com- mand, for 15 months. Much of his war- time service was spent overseas. Early in the war he was S.A.S.O. in Bengal and in Ceylon, and after commanding first No. 91 (Bomber) Group, and then otoqraph. SEARCHERS—HIGH AND LOW : No. 2 Squadron, equipped with Spitfires for reconnaissance duties, uses Mark 14s (left) for fully armed, low-level tactical work and cerulean Woe Spitfire 19s for longer range high-altitude missions. A history of this pioneer squadron will be a feature of "Flight " of June 9th. *'»3 the R.A.F. Staff College (Allied Wing),went on to planning duties at A.C.S.E.A. Headquarters, followed by 18 months incharge of No. 231 Group, in the same Command. He was born in 1898 andentered the R.A.F. in 1918. Until recently, A.V-M. Blucke was-A.O.A. Technical TrainingCommand. He took up this appointment in December,1947, soon after his return from India, where he had been S.A.S.O. at Air H.Q.,New Delhi. Before going to India he was A.O.C. No. 1 Group Bomber Com-mand from February, 1945, to Decem- ber, 1946. At the outbreak of war hewas serving with the Blind Approach Training and Development Unit, whichhe subsequently commanded. In 1940 the Unit was used to investigate the" Knickebein " system used by the Luft- waffe to direct aircraft on to targets inthe United Kingdom. A.V-M. Blucke is 51 and entered the Service in 1918,transferring from the Dorset Regiment. To Mark the Spot IN the officers' mess at R.A.F. StationTangmere, on May 21st, Mr. Geoffrey Dorman presented the station with a pro-peller which he damaged in 1916 during a forced landing in a field which is nowpart of Tangmere airfield. As Lt. Dorman of the R.F.C., he was on a training,flight from Shoreham to Gosport in an F.E.2B. Accepting the presentation, the StationCommander, W/C. G. Parnaby, D.S.O.,said that " it would be given an honoured place for all time." As they now flewaircraft without propellers [Meteor 4s operate from J"angmere] such an eventwas not likely to happen again; and in addition, the site of Mr. Dorman's arrivalhad been greatly enlarged in case it had ever been necessary for him to land thereagain. Carlisle Naval Display *TT is hoped that, as part of the pro-•*•-, gramme for the Navy Day to be held In* R.N. Air Station Anthorn on the after-noon of Saturday, July 16th, there will be demonstrations of the Attacker byMr. M. Lithgow, of gliding by Lt. Cdr. Sproule, and of formation aerobatics by
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