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1952
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482 FLIGHT, 18 April 1952 SERVICE AVIATION . . . Basic ground-training for airmen is to be carried out at Diyetidawa, a hill station at 4,000ft in the Central Highlands. A spacious camp previously occupied by the Army has been taken over and is being modernized to house the pupils. The Royal Ceylon Air Force will have its own ensign. It will be similar in design and colour to the Royal Air Force Ensign, with the national flag—a yellow emblemati cal lion on a maroon ground—super imposed at the upper left-hand corner; in the lower right-hand corner will be a roundel. The roundel will consist of two concentric circles, the inner red and the outer yellow, spanned on either side by a thick bar, the top half of which will be orange and the lower half green. The formation of a Ceylon Air Training Corps has also been approved, with flights at the larger schools throughout the island. Schoolboy Guests Y ESTERDAY 26 selected schoolboy-members of the R.A.F. sections of the Combined Cadet Force were due to leave Blackbushe, Hants, by air to make a seven- day visit to 2nd T.A.F. They are to be guests of the C.-in-C, Air Marshal Sir Robert M. Foster. They will see demonstrations of ground- CHARM HATH MUSIC: These four expressive studies of bondswomen of the W.R.A.F. Central Band were taken while they were performing at the recent W.R.A.F. passing-out parade at Wilmslow, Cheshire. Left to right) Cpl. Enid Ballard, A/C.W. G. Hemsley, A/C.W. Vicki Evans, who spent the war years in Holland, and L.AjC.W. Dorothy Winteringham. attack training at Fassberg and be given the opportunity of flying in Meteor 7s. Scharfbldendorf will be visited to watch gliding, Gutersloh to spend a day and a night with a reconnaissance wing, and Wahn to see night fighters in operation. The boys, with two masters—S/L. D. F. Perrins, D.S.O., D.F.C., R.A.F.V.R.(T), of Eastbourne College and F/L. K. R. Stoker, A.F.C., R.A.F. V.R.(T), of Fettes, will fly to Germany and back in a Valetta of No. 622 Transport Squadron; No. 622, operated by Airwork, Ltd., is the first of the new R.Aux.A.F. transport units. C.F.S. Magazine MR. T. O. M. SOPWITH is one of the contributors to the March issue of the Central Flying School Magazine. In it he writes at length on "Modern Aircraft Development," discussing the imponder ables of present-day deltas and recalling adventures with the 1914 Sopwith Schneider Tabloid to point the moral. An item in the news section states that the instructors' course has been increased to 16 weeks—eight at South Cerney and the remainder at Little Rissington. At South Cerney the first week is devoted to leadership training and seven weeks to basic training on Prentices. The course divides at Little Rissington, the majority of the students going on to Harvards and the rest on to Meteors. The extra length of the course is intended to enable the students to devote more time to revision and private study.' R.Aux.A.F. Summer Camps PILOTS of 14 squadrons of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force are to fly overseas to summer practice-camps, half of them to Malta and half to Germany. Ground crews will be flown out in transport aircraft. The other six squadrons will spend their fortnight's camp at Fighter Command stations in England and Scotland. Last year no summer camps were held, as the squadrons were called up for three months' continuous training, which they did at their home stations and at regular fighter stations, with a fortnight at the TRADITIONAL in having a white ensign at the stern (actually painted on the fin) is this D.H. Sea Hornet N.F.21 of No. 809 Squadron flown by the squadron's commanding officer. armament practice-camp at Acklington (Northumberland). The squadrons to visit Malta (where they will be based at the R.A.F. Station Takali) are No. 501 (County of Gloucester), Vampire 5, Aug. i6th-30th; No. 601 (County of London), Vampire 3, June 14th-28th; No. 604 (County of Middlesex), Vampire 3, May 31st-June 14th; No. 605 (County of Warwick), Vampire 5, June 28th-July 12th; No. 608 (North Riding), Vampire 3, Aug. 30th-Sept. 13th; No. 612 (County of Aberdeen), Vampire 5, July I2th-26th; No. 613 (City of Manchester), Vampire 5, July 26th-Aug. 9th. Visiting the 2nd Tactical Air Force in Germany and based at R.A.F. Station Celle, will be No. 600 (City of London), Meteor 8, May 3ist-June 14th; No. 504 (City of Nottingham), Meteor 4, July 19th-Aug. 2nd; No. 602 (City of Glasgow), Vampire 5, July 19th-Aug. 2nd; No. 603 (City of Edinburgh), Vampire 5, July 5th- 19th; No. 609 (West Riding), Meteor 8, June 7th-2ist; No. 616 (South Yorkshire), Meteor 8, July 5th-i9th; No. 615 (County of Surrey), Meteor 8, May 31st-June 14th. The three squadrons to visit R.A.F. Station, Leuchars, Fife, are No. 500 (County of Kent), Meteor 8, June 28th-July 12th; No. 607 (County of Durham), Vampire 5, July I2th-26th; No. 611 (West Lancashire), Meteor 8, June i4th-28th. At R.A.F. Station, Tangmere, Sussex, will be No. 610 (County of Chester), Meteor 8, Aug. 9th-23rd; No. 614 (County of Glamorgan), Vampire 5, June 21st- July 5th. No. 502 (Ulster) Squadron's Vampire 5s will fly from their base at Aldergrove to R.A.F. Station, Biggin Hill, Kent, for the period July icjth-Aug. 2nd. Reunions THE 619 Squadron (5 Group) annual informal reunion dinner will be held this year at the Magpie and Stump Inn, 18, Old Bailey, London, E.C.4, on Saturday, May 3rd, at 6.30 p.m. Jack Howard, the organizer, will be glad to receive applications for tickets, with remit tance of 10s 6d, at The Hatcheries, Kibworth, Leics. The third post-war reunion dinner for officers of No. 3 Fighter Squadron is to take place at the Savoy Hotel, London, on August 22nd. It is being organized by F/L. E. R. A. Shelton, R.A.F. Station Wildenrath, 2nd T.A.F., B.A.O.R. 34.
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