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Aviation History
1954
1954 - 1107.PDF
16 April 1954 499 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News The Queen at El Adem T HE Queen's Colour of the Royal Air Force Regiment, presented by Her Majesty in March last, will be paraded for the first time overseas with the Royal guard of honour which will receive the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh when they arrive on May 1st at El Adem, the R.A.F.'s desert staging post 18 miles from Tobruk. The guard of honour, commanded by F/L. T. G. Wilmer, will be drawn from all Royal Air Force Regiment squadrons in the Canal Zone. Her Majesty is Air Commodore-in-Chief of the R.A.F. Regi ment, whose Colour is unique in that it is the only R.A.F. Queen's Colour which may leave the United Kingdom. As the aircraft taxies to a standstill after its flight from Entebbe, Uganda, a hollow square will be formed by officers and airmen of El Adem, within which will stand the guard of honour, and the band from R.A.F. Station Kabrit, Canal Zone. The station commander, W/C. D. M. H. Craven, O.B.E., D.F.C., and the Minister to Libya, Sir Alec Kirkbride, will welcome the royal party. Presented to the Queen will be a Minister representing the Libyan Govern ment, the A.O.C. No. 205 Group, A.V-M. H. V. Satterly, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C. (who will also represent the Commander-in- Chief, Middle East Air Force, Air Marshal C. B. R. Pelly, K.C.B., C.B.E., M.C.) and General Sir Charles Keightley, G.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces. After inspecting the guard of honour, the Queen will take breakfast in the Move ment Section's transit mess, following which Royal Air Force and British Army officers will be presented to her. Her Majesty and the Duke will then drive out of the station between ranks of airmen lining the route, on to the highway and across the desert to visit the Imperial War Graves Cemetery five miles from Tobruk, where are buried British and Common wealth Army and Air Force men who died in the Western Desert campaigns. Later, in Tobruk itself, the Queen will meet King Idris of Libya. The royal yacht Britannia will begin the voyage to Malta in the early afternoon. R.A.F. Appointments TIJOUR appointments in the rank of Air •*- Vice-Marshal have been announced by the Air Ministry. They are: A.V-M. G. W. Tuttle, C.B., O.B.E., D.F.C., to be A.O.C. No. 19 Group, Coastal Command, from August next; A.V-M. H. V. Satterly, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C., to be Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operational Requirements) at the Air Ministry, from July; A.V-M. D. H. F. Barnett, C.B.E., D.F.C., to be A.O.C. No. 205 Group, M.E.A.F., from May; and A.V-M. N. S. Allinson, C.B., to be A.O.A. Flying Training Command H.Q., from June. A.V-M. Tuttle has been Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operational Requirements) since September 1951, when he returned from special duties in the U.S.A. Formerly he was A.O.A. at Coastal Command H.Q. A.V-M. Satterly, who succeeds A.V-M. Tuttle, has been A.O.C. No. 205 Group for the past two years and was, before that, Director of Operational Require ments (A) at the Air Ministry. A.V-M. Barnett, who in turn succeeds A.V-M. Satterly, has, since October 1952, been Senior British Liaison Officer at the United Nations military headquarters in Japan. A.V-M. Allinson has spent the last three years at the Air Ministry, first as Director of Manning and later as Director-General of Personnel (1). Succeeding AV-M. Allinson as Director-General of Personnel (1) is A. Cdre. L. T. Pankhurst, C.B.E.; he will assume the acting rank of Air Vice-Marshal. A.V-M. Pankhurst has already spent a year at the Air Ministry as Director of Postings. Other appointments recently announced include those of G/C. J. C. Millar, D.S.O., to Bomber Command H.Q., as Chief Signals Officer; G/C. S. L. Blunt and W/C. R. V. Fiddick to the department of the Air Member for Supply and Organiza tion, and G/C. G. F. Alexander, O.B.E., to the Ministry of Supply. W/C. A. J. French, D.F.C., A.F.C., and W/C. E. V. Stokes are both in the department of the Chief of the Air Staff and W/C. C. D. North-Lewis, D.S.O., D.F.C., has gone to AAFCE. For administrative duties G/C. W. K. Le May, C.B.E., and W/C. D. I. Fairburn, D.F.C., have gone to Home Command H.Q.; W/C. R. I. Alexander to Kirton-in-Lindsey; W/C. H. A. F. Summers, M.B.E., to the Record Office. W/C. F. F. Addington, D.F.C., to Stradis- hall and W/C. H. A. Chater, A.F.C., to Kai Tak (Hong Kong). (To be continued) Getting the C.O.'s Goat NO. 1 R.C.A.F. FIGHTER WING at North Luffenham are trying a new method calculated to reduce flying acci dents. A goat is involved. Once a month the statistics for aircraft accidents are studied, and the squadron with the worst accident record is ceremonially awarded a live and very un-military goat. The R.N.V.R. TROPHY: The new Kemsley Flying Trophy for competition between R.N.V.R. Air Squadrons. It was handed to the first winners. No. 1831 Squadron, at a ceremony aboard H.M.S. "President" in London last week. pilot committing the worst flying error is given custody of the animal, with full military honours at a Station parade. The hapless pilot who wins the goat for the month must personally make sure that it is properly fed and quartered, a duty which effectively eliminates week-end leave passes. The ambition of the station commander, G/C. J. D. Somerville, D.S.O., D.F.C., is to be left with the goat on his hands at the end of the month, and no accidents to worry about. R.Aux.A.F. Regt. Appointment '"THE Air Ministry announces the ap- * pointment of S/L. T. C. Iveson, D.F.C., R. Aux. A.F. Regt., to command No. 2609 (West Riding) Light Anti-Air- craft Squadron, R.Aux.A.F., located at R.A.F. Yeadon, Leeds. S/L. Iveson enlisted in the R.A.F.V.R. in 1938 and, in August 1941, went to Southern Rhodesia to join No. 27 Ele mentary Flying Training School as a fly ing instructor. Returning to the United Kingdom he first joined No. 14 Advanced Flying Unit and then No. 14 Operational Training Unit. In July the following year he was posted to No. 617 ("Dam-buster") Squadron for flying duties. It was while he was with No. 617 that he was awarded the D.F.C., after com pleting numerous sorties on his second tour of operational duty, including three QUEEN'S OWN: Vampire 5 fighter J bombers of No. 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron. R.Aux.A.F., per form a creditable line- abreast between cloud layers. The Queen is Honorary Air Commodore of the squadron, whose history we hope to publish in the near future.
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