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1950
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FLIGHT, 23 November 1950 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News and Announcements 477 STERN APPROACH : A tail-gunner's intimate view of the Ghost-pcwered D.H. Venom, which is now in production for Fighter Command. Royal Visits PRINCESS ELIZABETH visited-*- Fighter Command Headquarters, Stanmore, last Friday and watched, inthe underground control room, the plotting of a " raid " on the English coast.She also saw displays of individual and formation aerobatics by jet fighters. Onthe previous day H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester inspected Technical TrainingCommand H.Q. at Brampton and the R.A.F. and U.S.A.F. bomber-base atWyton. Coastal Command Appointments AIR COMMODORE A. F. HUTTON,C.B.E., D.F.C., Director of Servicing and Repair at the Air Ministry sinceMarch, 1949, will become Senior Tech- nical Staff Officer at ^ieadquarters,Coastal Command, on November 27th. Before going to the Air Ministry, AirCommodore Hutton was Senior Technical Staff Officer, Air Command, Far East(now Far East Air Force), where he went in June, 1946, after having been SeniorAir Staff Officer, No. 43 Group, Main- tenance Command, for about nine months.He was previously Deputy Air Officer in Charge of Administration at the head-quarters of " Tiger Force," which was to have gone into action against Japan. Sir Thomas Elmhirst Honoured HTHE Government of India have-L appointed Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst, K.B.E., C.B., A.F.C., R.A.F.(Retired), to a commission in the Indian Air Force, in the honorary rank of airmarshal with effect from October 16th, 1950, in recognition of his valuable ser-vices to the Indian Air Force, which he commanded from August 16th, 1947, toFebruary 22nd, 1950. Air Marshal Elm- hirst retired from the R.A.F. on June 29th. Hastings for Weather Squadron "LTANDLEY PAGE Hastings are now•»--*- replacing Halifaxes in the R.A.F. meteorological squadron at Aldergrove,Northern Ireland. Aircraft from this unit, which belongs to Coastal Command,make daily flights of 1,600 miles over the Atlantic to obtain information on cloudformation, temperature, pressure and humidity. The Hastings are outwardly similar tothe type used by Transport Command, but they have been modified internallyand equipped with a comprehensive range of meteorological instruments. Themore spacious layout and increased amenities of the new aircraft will enablethe meteorological air observers to work more accurately and with greater effici-ency, and its higher performance will eventually permit observations to be madeover a wider range of distance and height. The meteorological air observer sits inthe front of the aircraft beside the pilot and has a clear and unrestricted view.There is a second observer's position in the rear of the fuselage. Two stretcherbeds are fitted, on which crew members may rest when off duty. There arefacilities for providing hot meals, and the capacious cabin enables the crew to moveabout the aircraft easily. Meteorological equipment carried includes a psychro-meter (to determine air temperature and humidity), a frost point hygrometer (torecord humidity at very low temperatures), a high-level radio altimeter, aneroid, driftsight indicator and smoke and flame float tubes. There is also a hand camera, forcloud photography. In addition the air- craft carries equipment for air-sea rescueoperations as well as comprehensive navi- gational aids. At regular intervals throughout eachflight, the information obtained is trans- mitted by radio in international meteoro-logical code so that it may be immediately available to the forecaster at the CentralMeteorological Office, Dunstable, and also for world-wide radio distribution. Canuck in the States A PROTOTYPE Avro Canada Canuckall-weather fighter recently flew to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, for a cour-tesy visit to the U.S.A.F. Staff officers of the" Air Materiel Command were to be'" checked out" on the Canuck by its pilot, S/L. E. L. Badoux, D.S.O., D.F.C., atest pilot at the R.C.A.F. Experimental Proving Establishment, Rockcliffe. It was recently suggested that theU.S.A.F. might adopt the Canuck as a standard all-weather fighter, although theNorthrop Scorpion has already been selected for this role. Even if the sug-gestion is not followed up, the U.S.A.F. is likely to watch development of theCanuck as both the aircraft and the turbo- INSTRUMENT EXPERTS : Pictured at Horsham St. Faith during a recent exercise are the pilots of No. 74 Squadron (Meteor 8s), which holds the Duncan Trophy, awarded last September, for proficiency in all-weather flying.
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