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1951
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88 FLIGHT, 18 January 1951 SERVICE AVIATION.•• Naval Promotion ALMOST simultaneously the promotionof Captain Caspar John, A.D.C., to the rank of Rear-Admiral, and his appoint-ment to be Flag Officer Commanding Third Aircraft Carrier Squadron, havebeen announced by the Admiralty. In his new appointment (effective this month)he succeeds Vice-Admiral Charles E. Lambe, C.B., C.V.O. During World War 2 Admiral CasparJohn, an officer highly skilled and experi- enced in matters of naval aviation, heldappointments in which he was able to play an important part in bringing theFleet Air Arm to its peak strength. Between the wars he served in several air-craft carriers. He was posted to H.M.S. Hermes for full flying duties in 1926, andunderwent deck-landing training with No. 440 Flight. Subsequently he served as apilot in the Argus, Furious and Courageous and also had several periodsof training with the R.A.F. A few years before the war he served in the Admiraltyon the staff of the Naval Air Division and he made the first of several visits toAmerica in connection with the develop- ment and expansion of naval aviation.Early in the war he served in H.M.S. York but returned to London in 1941 tobecome the Director General, and subse- quently Chief Naval Representative, fornaval aircraft development and production at MAP. In 1943 he returned to the Admiraltyto serve as Director of Air Warfare (Training), and shortly afterwards he leftfor Washington on an important mission. There he became the Head of the BritishAir Service representation in the U.S.A.; he served also as Naval Air Attache andAssistant Naval Attache, Washington. In October, 1944, Admiral John took com-mand of H.M.S. Pretoria Castle, the Union Castle liner converted for use as anaircraft carrier. In the following year he commanded the light fleet carrier Oceanwhen she was first commissioned. In 1948 he was given command of the RoyalNaval Air Station at Lossiemouth, Scot- land ; then he returned to the Admiraltyto serve first as Deputy Chief of Naval Air Equipment and later as Director ofAir Operations and Training. He is now on leave. The Admiral was mentionedin despatches in 1941 for zeal, resource and devotion to duty. FIGHTING MARINER : The world's fastest marine aircraft is still the Saunders-Roe S.R.//U fighter (2 Metrovick Beryls), the first brototyQ^of which flew on July 16th, 1947, Interest in the type is being maintained. The enclosure is seen) is from thefChrisfmas card roduced (in which a strengthened cockpit ' r. Geoffrey Tyson, Saro chief test pilot. Training in CanadaT HE first 28 R.A.F. National Servicepilots to go to Canada for training under a new scheme by the Royal Cana-dian Air Force were addressed by the Secretary of State for Air, Mr. ArthurHenderson, at R.A.F. Station, Uxbridge, on January 10th. The Air Ministersaid: "You are the forerunners of an increasing number of aircrew who willbe training in Canada under the Aircrew Training Scheme which has been set upwith the co-operation of the Canadian Government, and which was announced inAugust last year. Last week the Cana- dian Minister of Defence said it wasthe intention of his Grovernment to offer increased training facilities to NorthAtlantic Treaty Nations. The British Government welcomes this offer. Weintend to avail ourselves of these facilities and we hope to train in Canada, as soonas arrangements can be made, a substan- tial proportion of the increased numberof pilots and navigators who will be re- quired under the Government's re-arma-ment programme. In going to Canada you will be going among friends, and Iam sure that you will be welcomed with all the kindliness and hospitality whichare characteristic of our Canadian cousins." " Flight " photograph. TROOP TRAIN, LEAVE BOAT, AMBULANCE, BUS SERVICE: A DakotaolNo. 66Transport Wing, R.A.A.F., emplaning passengers in Malaya. The Wing forms part of theSat transport systernj F.E.A.F. and, in addition to providing air ambulances for Korean and Malayan Wounded', "con- nects Singapore Island with Kuala Lumpur. Butterworth and the leave centre in Penang. Western Union Appointment GROUP CAPTAIN F. J. ST. G.BRAITHWAITE, C.B.E., who has for the past year been a student at theImperial Defence College, has been ap- pointed Chairman of the Air AdvisoryCommittee, Western Union Military Staff Committee; he will hold the acting rankof Air Commodore. During the war A. Cdre. Braithwaite held posts connectedwith anti-shipping operations. On the staff of H.Q. Coastal Command as atorpedo specialist at the start of hostilities, he was, in June 1940, appointed to com-mand No. 22 Squadron, the first R.A.F. squadron to have Beauforts. In August, 1941, A. Cdre. Braithwaitetook command of a torpedo training unit at Abbotsinch, and a year later, ofan operational training unit for night tor- pedo attacks at Limavady. In April, 1943,he was appointed Deputy Director of Operations (Anti-shipping) at the AirMinistry. Nine months later he returned, as Station Commander, to North Coateswhich was then one of the three Coastal Command stations mounting the low-levelBeaufighter strikes on German shipping. Since the war the Air Commodore hasbeen successively Deputy Senior Air Staff Officer, H.Q., Transport Command, Air # Adviser to the U.K. Delegation, Councilof Foreign Ministers, and Staff Officer in Charge of Administration at Air H.Q.,Malta. R.A.F. Associations Merge '"THE Royal Air Force Equitation Asso- -•- ciation, which exists to encourage horsemanship in the Service, has now joined forces with the R.A.F. Modern Pentathlon Association. Members of the R.A.F. are showing increasing interest in modern pentathlon events (riding, pistol shooting, cross-country running, fencing and swimming), and R.A.F. teams will now be organized by a sub-committee of the Equitation Association. The merger of the two organizations will result in the provision of more comprehensive training facilities for R.A.F. pentathlon competi- tors. At the Equitation Association's recent annual meeting it was announced that the President's Cup (presented by Air Mar- shal Sir Aubrey B. Ellwood) awarded annually to the member who has shown outstanding keenness and progress in horsemanship, had been won by L.A/C.W. D. Chandler, W.R.A.F.
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