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1953
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526 FLIGHT, 24 April 1953 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News SHAPE Appointment THE new SHAPE Deputy Chief of Staff (Plans and Operations) is to be A.V-M. W. L. Dawson, D.S.O., who will succeed A.V-M. E. C. Hudleston. A.V-M Dawson has been Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Policy) for the past 15 months and prior to that was an instructor at the Imperial Defence College. For his new appointment, which he will take up on August 1st, he will assume the acting rank of air marshal. R.P.A.F. Assistant C.A.S. U NTIL recently Chief Technical Officer, Engineering Division, R.A.F. Tech nical College, G/C. W. R. Worstall, O.B.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., has been seconded to the Royal Pakistan Air Force as Assistant Chief of Staff (Supply and Technical Services). For his new appointment G/C. Worstall will assume the acting rank of air com modore. Coastal Command Goodwill Flights T RAINING and goodwill flights to Ceylon and South Africa by six Avro Shackletons of No. 42 Squadron, Coastal Command, are at present under way. The aircraft left St. Eval on April 12th and are due back on May 6th. G/C. D. M. Somer- ville, Officer Commanding St. Eval, is commanding the flight and the CO. of No. 42 Squadron is S/L. D. H. Sutton. The programme allows for the squadron to take part in exercises arranged by the C-in-C. East Indies and the A.O.C. Ceylon before dividing—three Mk 1 Shackletons returning to St. Eval from Ceylon and three Mk 2 Shackletons going on to South Africa. The first leg of the course to. Cape Town entails a 2,450-mile flight to Mauritius. The itinerary in South Africa and home is: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Leopoldville, Kano, Idris and St. Eval. At the conclusion of the flight the aircraft returning from Ceylon will have flown 12,815 miles and the Mk 2 Shackle tons 17,740 miles. R.N.V.R. Summer Training TTHS year, for the summer training * programme for the R.N.V.R. air squadrons, emphasis is being placed on armament and anti-submarine work. Anti-submarine squadrons equipped with Firefly aircraft will be flying to Northern Ireland for periods of training at R.N. Air Station Eglinton, Co. Derry. Units of the Channel Air Division R.N.V.R. based at R.N. Air Station Ford, Sussex, will go in two parties, from May 16th to 30th and August 22nd to September 6th, and No. 1841 Squadron (from Stretton, Lanes) from June 20th to July 4th. For weapon training and operational exercises No. 1831 Squadron from Stretton will be going to St. Merryn, Cornwall, from June 20th to July 4th, while Southern Air Division squadrons from Culham, Berks, will visit Culdrose, Cornwall from July 4th to 18th. The Midland unit, No. 1833, stationed at Bramcote, Warwickshire, will be at St. Merryn from July nth to 25th. The only R.N.V.R. squadron to spend its entire summer training period at sea this year will be No. 1830, the Scots- manned unit based at R.N. Air Station Abbotsinch; it will be embarked in a carrier during July for deck landing train ing and exercises. In addition, it is expected that No. 1831 Squadron will spend the week-ends May 29th to June 1st and June 5th to 8th at sea. R.A.F G.S.A. UNTIL recently in charge of the 2nd T.A.F. Gliding Centre at Schar- foldendorf, Germany, F/L. R. E. Osland has now become general secretary of the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association. His address is R.A.F. Station, Cardington, Bedfordshire. R.N.Z.A.F. Appointments THE New Zealand Air Board has announced the appointment of G/C. C. C. Hunter as Director of Technical Services in succession to G/C. G. H. Procter, who has been on loan from the R.A.F. since early in 1950 and who has now returned to Britain. A second appointment is that of G/C. A. H. Marsh, M.B., Ch.B., D.T.M., and H. (Eng.), Director of Medical Services, R.N.Z.A.F., to be Honorary Physician to the Queen. W/C. D. J. H. Lay, D.S.O., D.F.C., who is on loan from the R.A.F., has arrived in New Zealand to take up his appointment as Officer Commanding the Officers' School at R.N.Z.A.F. Station Whenuapai. NATO Canadian Appointment I T has been announced that A. Cdre. W. R. MacBrien, O.B.E., C.D.,R.C.A.F., Chief Staff Officer at Air Defence Command H.Q., St. Hubert, is going to No. 4 A.T.A.F. at Lansberg, Germany, in a similar capacity. A. Cdre. MacBrien, who is British-born, has served in the Royal Canadian Air Foree since 1935. During the war he commanded a Canadian fighter sector on the Continent. The First Air V.C. I N our report last week, concerning the winning of the Mason Memorial Trophy by No. 6 Squadron, reference was made to Lt. Walker, a squadron pilot, winning the first V.C. for air combat. This should, of course, have read "Lt. Hawker." R.C.A.F. Exchange ARECENT appointment under the officer exchange scheme is that of S/L. J. MacKay, D.F.C, R.C.A.F., who has been transferred to Korea for a six-month tour of duty with the U.S.A.F. S/L. MacKay recently took a course at the R.A.F. Flying College, Manby, Lin colnshire, and at the time of his appoint ment was commanding No. 416 Squadron, R.C.A.F., at Grostenquin in France. Reunion THE eighth annual reunion of Bomber Command H.Q. Officers' Association is being held at Bomber Command Head quarters, R.A.F. High Wycombe, Bucks, on Saturday, May 16th. Any member of the association who has not yet received details of the function should apply to the secretary of the Association at the above address. EAST ANGLIAN TRINITY: A very striking picture of three Canberras of No. 101 Squadron, R.A.F., performing some very low-donn formation flying for "Flight's" camera.
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