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1953
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386 FLIGHT, II September 1953 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News Vice-Chief of the Air Staff F OLLOWING upon the death of A.V-M. W. Brook, Vice-Chief of the Air Staff designate, in a recent flying acci dent, Air Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw- Chapman has been appointed to fill this post. The present V-C.A.S. is Air Chief Marshal Sir John Baker, who becomes Controller of Supplies (Air) at the Ministry of Supply. Sir Ronald's past as D.C.A.S. will be taken over by A.V-M. T. Pike, now Assistant C.A.S. (Policy). He will assume the acting rank of Air Marshal. R.A.F. Appointments T HE Air Ministry has announced that, from October, A.V-M. A. McKee, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., is to be S.A.S.O. at Bomber Command and that A.V-M. G. D. Harvey, C.B.E., D.F.C., the present Bomber Command S.A.S.O., will become A.O.C. No. 23 Group. Two more appointments are those of A. Cdre. G. I. L. Saye, C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C., to be A.O.A. at M.E.A.F. H.Q., with acting rank of Air Vice-Marshal, and A. Cdre. P. D. Cracroft, A.F.C., to be S.A.S.O. at Coastal Command, also with the acting rank of Air Vice-Marshal. Early in November A. Cdre. M. Watson, C.B., C.B.E., becomes Director of Signals (1) at the Air Ministry and at the end of November A. Cdre. E. N. Lowe, C.B., C.B.E., takes up his new appoint ment at SHAPE as Deputy Chief of Staff (Logistics). With the acting rank of Air Com modore, G/C. G. G. Barrett, C.B.E., becomes A.O.C. Gibraltar. R.A.A.F. Jet Units I T has been announced by Air Marshal Sir Donald Hardman, C.A.S. of the R.A.AF., that No. 86 Wing will be the first R.A.A.F. unit to have its Lincolns replaced by Australian-bullt Canberras, a squadron of which will be formed at Amberley, Queensland. Both bomber and P.R. versions will go into service. The R.A.A.F. also expects to have the first squadron of Avon Sabres, mounting two 30 mm cannon each, in service within a year. A Sabre conversion unit is to be formed at Williamtown, N.S.W. Operation Leap Frog—Four THE last of the four R.C.A.F. Sabre • win^s assigned to European defence under NATO was recently made ready to begin its Atlantic crossing to Germany. Called operation Leap Frog Four, the ferry flieht was designed to start from Goose Bay, Labrador, and to take the three squadrons (Nos. 414, 422 and 444) to Baden-Soellingen, Germany, via Bluie NO MYTH: The wyvern, wivern or wyfern (the dictionary tells us) is an heraldic dragon, winged, two-legged and with a barbed tail. The Wyvern S.4 of today is, of course, Wesihnd's carrier- borne. Python-powered, strike fighter. After a somewhat protracted development period—for both power plant and. airframe were of wholly new design—the Wyvern is now in squadron service vt i:h the Fleet Air Arm, as this new "Flight" photograph, one of a fine series by John Yoxall, bears witness. The aircraft belong to No. 813 Squadron, R.N., commanded by Lt-Cdr. C. E. Price. West 1, Keflavik and R.N.A.S. Lossie mouth. In Germany the wing will be known as No. 4 R.C.A.F. Fighter Wing. R.C.A.F. North Stars have already begun ferrying the Squadrons' groundcrew to Germany and are also stationing skeleton crews to service the Sabres at the inter mediate staging points. The first R.C.A.F. all-weather fighter squadron, No. 445, equipped with CF-100 Canucks, is now due to take over No. 422 squadron's base at Uplands, Ontario, in September. R.A.F. Benevolent Fund IN the first half of this year the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund spent £305,045 in helping 11,276 cases. A.V-M. Sir John Cordingley, Controller of the Fund, said that a feature of recent work by the Fund was the increase in educational aid given—considered to be one of the most constructive forms of assistance. Last year educational expen diture totalled £162,662, an increase of £36,886. During the first six months of 1953 £97,079 was expended on educa tional aid. The above figures include the cost of upkeep and administration of the Fund's own two residential schools. Reunions NO. 3 S of G.R. (Squires Gate) Old Comrades Association 8th annual re union dinner will be held at the Casino, Blackpool, on October 3rd, 1953. Par ticulars: A. C. M. Powell, 26 North Promenade, St. Annes-on-Sea, Lanes. The third reunion of 1409 (Met.) Flight will be held at the Pathfinder Club on October 3rd. Details from E. R. Perry, 17 Pimlico Road, London, S.W.I. The fifth reunion of M.R.E.S. officers will take place in London on October 31st. Particulars from S/L. P. E. Laughton- Bramley, M.B.E., R.A.F. Officers' Mal colm Club, 24/26, Cadogan Gardens, London, S.W.3.
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