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1951
1951 - 0969.PDF
606 SERVICE AVIATION . . . Royal Colour PresentationT HE KING will present his Colour tothe Royal Air Force in the United Kingdom at a parade of 2,500 R.A.F.officers, airmen and airwomen in Hyde Park on Saturday, May 26th. Some hun-dred Meteors and Vampires will fly past immediately after the Royal Salute. The Chaplain-in-Chief, Royal Air Force,the Rev. CJanon Leslie Wright, K.H.C., will conduct a service of consecration ofthe Colour following the King's inspection and after the presentation the Colour partyand the Escort squadron will march past and advance in review order. A march-past of the whole parade will conclude the ceremony. The parade will be formed from repre-sentative contingents of the eight R.A.F. Commands in the United Kingdom, withNo. 90 Group, the R.A.F. Regiment, apprentices and boy entrants, and theWomen's Royal Air Force. Each will provide a squadron of 140. The ceremonywill take place near the Grosvenor Gate and will start at 3 p.m. Royal EscortT HE formation of 18 Gloster Meteors which constituted the R.A.F. escort for the arrival and departure of the King and Queen of Denmark was drawn from squadrons stationed at Waterbeach and led by W/C. J. M. Thompson, D.S.O., D.F.C. Air Marshal Sir Hugh P. Lloyd was among the reception party at Dover and Air Chief Marshal Sir Leslie N. Holling- hurst was present at Victoria Station when the King and Queen met the Danish royal party. New Fifth Sea LordR EAR-ADMIRAL E. W. ANSTICE,C.B., has been appointed a Lord Com- missioner of the Admiralty, Fifth Sea Lordand Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Air) in succession to Vice-Admiral M. J. Man-sergh, C.B., C.B.E. The appointment will take effect from September, 1951. As a Lieutenant the Rear-Admiralserved in the carriers H.M.S. Furious and H.M.S. Courageous in the nineteen-twenties and became a Fleet Air Arm pilot after training with the R.A.F. In 1942 and 1943 the Admiral com-manded H.M.S. Striker and H.M.S. Fencer, both wartime escort carriers, andin March, 1944, became Chief of Staff to Flag Officer Carrier Training and Admin-istration. A year later he was appointed Commodore, Flying Training, and in 1946was lent to the Royal Australian Navy to serve for two years as Fourth Naval Mem- FLIGHT, 18 May 1951 HOOKS DOWN: A pair of Naval Aviation Fireflies pass over the Canadian destroyer "Nootka" on their way back from a strike against land targets in Korea. ber of the Australian Commonwealth NavalBoard. Rear-Admiral Anstice is now FlagOfficer, Flying Training. R.A.F. Gliding Association TTNDER the leadership of G/C. G. J. C.*-' Paul, chairman of the association, a party has recently visited the French LowerAlps to investigate the standing wave at St. Auban. Unfortunately, only one full waveoccurred during the visit but, even so, the party put in 35 hours' flying, reachingheights up to 17,000ft. It is hoped that similar standing waveswill eventually be found in the Pennines, the Lake District, or Scotland. R.A.F. Appointments A CDRE. A. D. GILLMORE, C.B.E.,• who has been A.O.C. No. 64 Group, Home Command, since December, 1948,will become Commandant of the R.A.F. Staff College, Bracknell, Berks, from June18th, with the acting rank of air vice- marshal. When A. Cdre. Gillmore takes up hisappointment as Commandant of the Staff College his place as A.O.C. No. 64 Groupwill be taken by A. Cdre. James Warburton. A. V-M. L. W. Cannon has taken overcommand of the Royal Pakistan Air Force from A. V-M. R. L. R. Atcherley, who isreturning to England and will resume service with the R.A.F. The Cooper Trophy Race "ELIMINATING heats for the annual •*—' race between squadrons of the R.Aux.A.F. for the Cooper Trophy will be flown at Church Fenton, Yorkshire, and West Mailing, Kent, on May 20th. The Church Fenton heat will be between the 13 auxiliary squadrons of No. 12 Group and the West Mailing heat between the seven squadrons of No. 11 Group. In the final, to be flown at Hatfield as part of the Festival Air Races programme (see page 604), five aircraft from No. 12 and three from No. 11 Group will compete. The Trophy is at present held by No. 600 (City of London) Squadron; the win- ning pilot was F/L. K. N. Haselwood, who averaged 511 m.p.h. in his Meteor 4. The Plymouth Display A REFERENCE in last week's report ofthis event to the A.O.C-in-C. Coastal Command should, of course, have referred to "Air Marshal Sir Charles [not Sir Jamn] Steele." • / I J HONG KONG AUXILIARIES: A sector operations room during an exercise; the plotters are women members of the Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force. The com- manding officer, WjC. A. W. Wood, D.F.C., B.E.M., is seen above with (left) S/L D. S. W. Rake, adjutant and flying instructor and (right) S/L. D. W. Jones, D.F.C., A.F.C., who commands the Flying Squadron. \
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