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1950
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FLIGHT, 16 March 1950 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Naval A viation News and Announcements NEW RECRUIT : Now ordered for Fighter Command, the de Havilland Venom (5,0001b thrust D.H. Ghost) is shown getting under way. It already promises to surpass the enviable reputation of its precursor, the Vampire, particularly at high altitude. K.A.F. Aid in 1949 T^XPENDITURE by the R.A.F. -C^ Benevolent Fund on all forms of. assistance during 1949 totalled £715,670, an all-time record and an increase of more than £48,000 on the 1948 figure. Some £688,000 were spent in grants or loans to over 300,000 past and present members of the R.A.F. and W.R.A.F. and their dependants. Other items in- cluded housing assistance; upkeep of the Fund's own two schools and donations to certain other organizations for the benefit of R.A.F. and W.R.A.F. per- sonnel in distress. Cadet's Easter Camp MORE than 600 schoolboys belongingto the R.A.F. Sections of the com- bined Cadet Force are to spend part of the Easter holidays at camp with the R.A.F They will come from over 40 schools. About half will go to the R.A.F. College, Cranwell, and the remainder to R.A.F. Station Chivenor, near Barn- staple, Devon. Each contingent—some between 20 and 30 strong—will spend a week in camp, during which the training received at school will be extended by technical instruction, as much flying and outdoor or practical work as can be arranged, and ceremonial drill. Cadets will also be introduced to R.A.F. organization. Representing the R.A.A.F. A LINCOLN of the Royal AustralianAir Force, built in Australia, will take part in the R.A.F. Display at Farnborough in June, afterwards return- ing to the Commonwealth with a British crew. Its Australian crew will remain in Britain on exchange duty, with an R.A.F. bomber squadron. Auxiliary Appointment THE Air Ministry announces that S/L.J. W. E. Holmes, D.F.C., A.F.C., has been posted to command No. 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron, R.Aux.A.F. He succeeds S/L. G. K. Gilroy, D.S.O., D.F.C. S/L. Holmes, who was among the first aircrew volun- teers to join the R.A.F. on the outbreak of war, enlisting as an A.C.2, was com- missioned in October, 1941. He com- menced flying duties with Nos. 263 and 137 Squadrons, becoming a flight com- mander in September, 1942. Early in 1944, he took command of No. 266 Squadron, and was later posted to Germany as a flying instructor with No. 84 Group Support Unit. Since the war S/L. Holmes has served at the Em- pire Air Armament School, undergone a course at the R.A.F. Staff College and, latterly, he has been with Headquarters FOR MERCY MISSIONS : Three Westland-Sikorsky S-51 helicopters (500 h.p. Alvis Leonides) ready for delivery to the R.A.F. Fitted with external litters, as shown, the type is well :uited to casualty evacuation in inaccessible mountain or jungle terrain. No. 12 Squadron's Reunion AN epic bombing raid tor which F/L.Donald Garland and Sgt. Thomas Gray were posthumously awarded the fitstair V.C.s of the war, will be recalled by the reunion of ex-A.A.S.F. members ofNo. 12 Squadron in London on March 25th. The attack was made by fiveBattles of No. 12 Squadron on the Maast- richt bridge in Belgium, in May, 1941;only one aircraft returned, with its ob- server dead. The participating crews hadbeen selected by lots, as all the Squadron aircrews had volunteered for the opera-tion, despite its "suicide" nature. Among those expected to be present atthe reunion are A.V-M. C. E. N. Guest and A. Cdre. H. L. Patch. B.A.F.O. Dramatics A PLAY written by a Royal Air Force •f*- sergeant is among those entered by -the British Air Ffirces of Occupation, Germany, for the 1950 inter-Services occupation forces drama festival tH= month. The author. Sergeant Geoffrey Gladman, is stationed in Hamburg with a R.A.F. motor transport depot. His play is entitled Remember the Ninth. Altogether there are twelve entries from the R.A.F. Plays selected include Journey's End (Luneburg), Priestley's Rose and Crown (H.Q., B.A.F.O.), E. Crawshay Williams' Storm in a Break- fast Cup (Buckeburg), Philip King's Si •• How They Run (Wunstorf), and Tennessee Williams' The Long Goodbye (B.A.F.O. Education Centre). Teams from the British Army of the Rhine and the Control Commission for Germany are also taking part. Bomber Command's Principal Medical Officer AIR COMMODORE R. H. STAX-BRIDGE, O.B.E., M.R.C.S., L.H.C.P., D.P.M., whose appointment as Principal Medical Officer, R.A.F. Bomber Command, was announced re- cently, held a similar appointment with B.A.F.O. from July, 1947, until April, 1949, when he became P.M.O. of Trans- port Ccmmand. His service in Germany included the busiest months of the Berlin
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