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1950
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FLIGHT, 6 April 1950 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News mn d Announce me n ts Ark Royal Launch IT is hoped that some 400 officers andmen from the old Ark Royal, sunk off Gibraltar in November, 1941, will see the Queen launch the new 36,800-ton carrier of that name at Cammell Laird's Uirkenhead yard on May 3rd. A sister ship, H.M.S. Eagle, is now nearing com- pletion at Harland and Wolf's Belfast vard. These two carriers will be Britain's largest. Helicopter Ambulances '"THREE Westland-Sikorsky S-51 ambu- J- lance helicopters will arrive at Singapore by sea about the middle of this month. They will be used to evacu- ate casualties sustained by jungle patrols operating against the bandits, and will he based at Kuala Lumpur and Buttcr- worth. Biggest Australian Survey USING de Havilland Mosquitoes, theRoyal Australian Air Force is to- undertake an air survey of a million square miles of Northern Australia. The operation will be the biggest upon which the Service has yet embarked, and has STRIKE FIGHTER : A spirited study of the Westland Wyvern T F.2 (Armstrong Siddeley Python turboprop) now in production for Naval Aviation as a successor to the Firebrand. A two-seat trainer version, now on test, is designated Wyvern T.3. been requested by the Federal Govern- ment partly for defence purposes and partly to assist in the development of the area.' . ... ... W.v.- .' ' •. • Esher Trophy Presentation , AT noon on Wednesday, June 21st, inthe quadrangle of Buckingham Palace, His Majesty the King will pre- sent the Esher Trophy to No. 604 (County of Middlesex) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force. This will be the first occasion that the trophy has been awarded since before the war. It was presented in 1926 by the late Lord Esher for the most efficient Auxiliary squadron and was won by the County of Middlesex Squadron in 1934, 1936 and 1937. ... •. ; • >. CAMERA STUDY : Installing a reconnaissance camera in a Spitfire P.R.Mk.19 (Rolls- Royce Griffon 66 engine) of a B.A.F.O. squadron. Having a longer range than comparable jet-propelled machines, the Spitfire remains standard equipment in recon naissance units of the R.A.F. Replacement, however, cannot be long delayed. >,: "V \ Hockey DrawT HE first match of the Services hockeychampionship at Uxbridge on March 29th, between the R.A.F. and the RoyalNavy, resulted in a 2:2 draw. The failure of either side to establish adefinite advantage may have been parti- ally attributable to an injury to W. S.Green, the R.A.F. Irish international inside left, who retired temporarily. Visitor from PakistanT HERE was a reception at PakistanHouse on the night of March 29th, in honour of A.V-M. R. L. R. Atcherley,Commander-in-Ghief, Royal Pakistan Air Force, who is home on a visit. Theguests included the C.-in-C.'s twin brother, A.V-M. D. F. W. Atcherley. Popular Training MoveU NDER a new scheme initiated by Reserve Command with the opera- tional commands of the R.A.F., mem- liers of the .R.A.F. Reserve (including the R.A.F.V.R.) may now have the opportunity to fly alongside their counterparts of the regular aircrews, not only 011 Bomber and Coastal Command training flights to such targets as Heligo- land, but also to Singapore and Nairobi with Transport Command. These nights, together with lectures at operational stations of the R.A.F., wilt provide the reservists with the fifteen days' continuous training which forms part of their annual liability during their reserve service and which entitles flying personnel of the R.A.F.V.R. to their tax-fret bounty of £y> or ^35, Some 4,500 pilots, navigators and signallers of the R.A.F.V.R. are eligible to volunteer for these training facilities, which are intended to refresh aircrew in the handling of operational aircralt Lineolns Strike IN co-operation with the security forces,aircraft of the R.A.F., including \vro Lincoln bombers, struck on March 27th at an extensive area in the Bahau district of Negri Sembilan, known to be sheltering a large concentration ol bandits A number of pin-point targets were accurately attacked I'V waves of v V,
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