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1951
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FLIGHT, 16 March 1951 327 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News SLEEK AND SWIFT: A new view of the Super- marine 535, which may well be the forerunner of an even more advanced design for R.A.F. fighter squadrons. Its power-unit is a Rolls- Royce Nene with afterburner, but the more powerful Avon could be installed. THE first R.A.F. officer to be appointedto the H.Q. staff in Paris of General Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, is A.V-M. Edmund Hudleston, C.B., C.B.E., who will be Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans. Until recently, he has been A.O.C. No. 1 Group, Bomber Command; he was appointed acting Air Vice-Marshal on May 5th, 1948. A.V-M. Hudleston, who is only 42, was born in Perth, Western Australia, and was commissioned from the R.A.F. College, Cranwell, in December, 1928. His war service was spent overseas. After two years on attachment to the Turkish Government, he was appointed to R.A.F. Middle East H.Q. in May, 1941. As a member of Mediterranean Air H.Q. in 1943, he helped to plan the Sicilian campaign; soon after- wards he became S.A.S.O. to No. 1 Tactical Air Force, with which he served in Sicily and Italy until 1944. His last wartime operational command was in N.W. Europe —as A.O.C. No. 84 Group, Second T.A.F. Arctic Flights from Shawbury FOUR Lancasters from the R.A.F.Central Navigation and Control School, Shawbury, are making the first high-latitude, navigational-training flights from the School for two years. After arriving atKeflavik, Iceland, by Sunday, March 1 ith, the aircraft were due to make two 2,000-mile training flights before returning to base on Saturday, March 17th. The Lancasters' aircrews—students ona specialist navigation course at Shawbury —are equipped with the new heavy flyingclothing for cold climates. The aircraft A.V-M. E. C. HUDLESTON, whose appointment to General Eisenhower's staff in Paris is reported in the adjacent column. carry survival equipment and their own ground crews, who wear duffle coats, leather jerkins, Wellingtons and heavy stockings. Commander of the mission is G/C. B. J. R. Roberts, Commandant of the Central Navigation School; his deputy is S/L. J. S. Sherwood, D.S.O., D.F.C. An R.A.F. Sabre-pilot FROM the U.S.A.F. comes an interestingnote on one of the first R.A.F. fighter pilots to be assigned to the American FarEast Air Force for combat duties over Korea—F/L. Stephen Daniel, D.S.O.,D.F.C., a "tall, sandy-haired Scotsman "rom Dumfriesshire." Formerly a Meteorilot at Tangmere, F/L. Daniel was posted to the 1st Fighter-Intercepter Wing in theTXS.A. for two years' exchange duty. He has,, since transferred to Korea and nowflies F--86A Sabres with the 4th Fighter- Intercepter Wing. Daniel describes his first trip to theOrient as an enjoyable and fascinating experience, and adds that he hopes to "geta crack at the Migs soon." His wartime R.A.F. career, which beganin 1941, included the command of two squadrons—Nos. 72 and 145. Operatingfjiom Britain and in the Mediterranean theatre, F/L. Daniel destroyed 15 enemyaircraft. Activity in Malaya A LOW-FLYING Lincoln of Far EastAir Force last week attacked bandits besieging an isolated police-station in east Johore. The post came under fire while a Dragonfly helicopter-ambulance was on its way to evacuate four casualties. The Dragonfly returned to Johore Bahru with its escorting Auster and the Lincoln shelled and machine-gunned the jungle until the bandits had vanished, permitting the evacuation to take place, The decisiveness of this engagement was in contrast to the normal operations by the R.A.F. in the Malayan campaign, the history and progress of which were the subject of a lecture by A.V-M. Sir Frank Mellersh, K.B.E., A.F.C., at the Royal COMING ABOARD: The versatility of the heli- copter is being fully exploited by the Navy. Here, a Westland-Sikorsky Dragonfly, carrying dispatches from the carrier "Indomitable," is seen about to land on H.M.S. "Vanguard" during the recent spring cruise of the Home Fleet. The battleship's quarterdeck awning was spread, so the Dragonfly touched down between the anchor-cables—creating, it is thought, a Naval precedent.
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