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FLIGHT, 7 December 1950 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News and Announcements Training in Canada SPEAKING at R.A.F. Station Lockingon November 30th, the Secretary of State for Air, Mr. Arthur Henderson,announced that the first 25 pilots to be sent for flying training to Canada inJanuary would all .be National Service- men and would have the acting rank ofprobationary pilot officer under the new scheme for commissioning pilots andnavigators. Subsequent drafts would consist of Regular and National Servicepilots and navigators. The pilots going in January would beflown to Canada and would be trained at Gimli, near Winnipeg. They began theirservice in October, would have completed their initial training school course in thiscountry, and would spend less than a year in Canada where they would betrained by the R.C.A.F. to " wings" standard. On their return they would betrained at advanced flying schools, many of them on jet aircraft, and at operationalconversion units. Navigators to be trained in Canada would go to a flyingtraining school at Summerside, Prince Edward Island. R.A.F. Squash Rackets T^OR the fourth time, G/C. B. K.•*• Burnett, the holder, has won the R.A.F. Championship. At the Lans-downe Club on December 2nd, he beat W/C. C. H. Beamish, 9—0, 9—4, 9—7. 539 AIR MARSHAL SIR THOMAS WILLIAMS (right), the C.-in-C, B.A.F.O., was recently presented with the American Distinguished Service Medal for his contribution to the Berlin Air Lift. The presentation was made by General John K. Cannon, commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Germany. Both officers are leaving Germany shortly to take up new appointments ; Sir Thomas becomes A.O.C.- in-C, Home Command on March 15th, I9SI. FENCED : This new air-to-air view of the Hawker P.1081 shows that the swept-back wings now bear boundary layer "fences" to offset tip-stalling tendencies. Australia has adopted this Nene-powered interceptor for home defence; production will take place in the Commonwealth. The W.R.A.F. Championship final wasalso played off at the Lansdowne Club on Saturday, and Squadron Officer M. M.Sturge retained her title by beating Flight Officer J. M. Pawson, 9—5, 9—3, 9—7. At Sandhurst, on the same day, theR.A.F. College, Cranwell, beat the Royal Military Academy by three matches totwo. Next I.D.C. Course ^THE R.A.F. and Commonwealth Air-*- Force officers selected for the 1951 course at the Imperial Defence Collegewill spend the first week of January at the Air Ministry so that they may be broughtup to date in the current problems and policy of the R.A.F. before they begintheir year's study at the College. The week's programme at the AirMinistry will include talks by members of the Air Council and their staffs, and willconclude with a talk by the Chief of the Air Staff, Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir JohnSlessor. Officers selected for the course are AirCommodores C. E. Chilton, H. P. Fraser, J. G. Franks and W. L. Freebody, andGroup Captains A. G. Adnams, E. C. Bates, D. W. Lane, H. L. Maxwell andK. J. Mclntyre. C.A.S. to Present Cooper Trophy ON Sunday, December 10th, Marshal ofthe R.A.F. Sir John Slessor will pre- sent the Cooper Trophy to No. 600 (Cityof London) Squadron, R.Aux.A.F., at Biggin Hill. The Trophy is awardedannually to the winners of a handicap race open to all Auxiliary fighter squadrons;the winner of the 1950 race, held during the R.A.F. display on July 7th, was F/O.K. N. Haselwood of 600 Squadron. Flying a Meteor 4, he averaged 511 m.p.h.over t\wo laps of the 35-mile five-sided course. The two previous holders of theTrophy were Nos. 601 and 502 Squadrons. Those present at the presentation cere-mony will include Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry, A.V-M T. G. Pike and W/C.Geoffrey Cooper, M.P., the donor of the Trophy. S/L. J. P. Meadows, D.F.C.,commands No. 600 Squadron, whose Honorary Air Commodore is H.M. theQueen. Most Efficient University Squadron '"THE Hack Trophy, awarded annually-*- to the most efficient university air squadron, has been won this year byQueen's University Air Squadron, Belfast. In competition with 13 other universities,Queen's scored 1,386 marks out of a pos- sible 1,600—86.6 per cent. EdinburghU.A.S. was second with 82.9 per cent, and Cambridge U.A.S. third with 80.8 percent. Other squadrons taking part in the competition were placed as follows: Birm-ingham (76.0), Durham (76.8), Leeds (71.7), London (77.6), Manchester 70.25),Nottingham (69.68), Oxford (79.0), Southampton (77.4), Aberdeen (74.1),Glasgow (72.7), St. Andrews (71.9). First awarded in 1942, the Trophy is agold cup presented by W/C. E. J. Hack. Competition consists of written examina-tions and flying tests between cadets chosen to represent their squadrons. B.A.F.O.'s Contribution IN acknowledgment of a cheque for£427, representing the contribution made to the Lord Mayor's NationalThanksgiving Fund by the British Air Forces of Occupation in the British Zoneof Germany, Austria and Berlin, the Lord Mayor of London has sent a letterof thanks to Air Marshal Sir Thomas Williams, Commander-in-Chief, B.A.F.O. The B.A.F.O. cam- i • n
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