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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 1460.PDF
570 FLIGHT, 30 September 1955 SERVICE AVIATION . * » Exercise "Sea Enterprise"O N Wednesday last week the carriertask-force exercise "Sea Enterprise" began in the sea area around Norway. Itinvolved the Royal Navy carriers Eagle, Albion, Centaur and Bulwark andH.M.C.S. Magnificent, together with escorts and supply ships. The carriers areon the Blue (friendly) side while the enemy is simulated by aircraft and submarinesof the Orange forces, many of them based in Norway. No. 801 Sqn., F.A.A., normally based atLossiemouth, flew sorties against the carriers from a Norwegian airfield and wasintercepted by Sea Hawks, the attack be- ing based on reconnaissance informationgathered by Coastal Command Neptunes, also operating from Norway. Shackletonsfrom Northern Ireland gave long-range anti-submarine cover to the task force as itsailed into the exercise area. Blue air attacks on targets on the Norwegian coasthave been met by Royal Norwegian Air Force F-84s. . .... - V.I.P. Visits IT ING FEISAL OF IRAQ paid a brief-**• visit to C.F.S., Little Rissington, on Thursday last week. He toured the stationand saw various types of aircraft. On the previous day Mr. Cornelis Staf,Netherlands Defence Minister, had visited Waterbeach, Marham and Horsham St.Faith, flying from Hendon in a Transport Command Devon. At Marham, Mr. Stafattended the briefing of a bomber crew for a practice mission and saw a Canberra be-ing loaded with 500 lb bombs. No. 100 Sqn. Standard THIRST of the night bomber squadrons•*• to receive its standard will be No. 100, now flying Canberras from Wittering,Hunts. The standard will be presented at Wittering on October 21st by the A.O.C-in-C. Bomber Command, Air Marshal Sir George Mills. No. 100 Sqn. was formed in 1917 as partof the Independent Air Force, which was designed to provide the first strategic airstriking force against Germany, and moved straight away from Farnborough to France.First target for their F.E.2Bs was the air- field at Douai from which the Richthofencircus was operating. In August, 1918, Handley Page twin- engined bombers were taken over andflown against towns in Germany; and on the night before the Armistice the lastnight bomber to land was one belonging to No. 100 Sqn. Between the wars the unit continuedwith bombers and moved out to Singapore in 1933, with torpedo-bombers. Vilde-beestes were flown against the Japanese until 1942 and heavy losses were sustained.The unit was reformed in England at the end of mat year with Lancasters, and at-tacks were made on Peenemiinde, among other targets; later the squadron supportedthe Normandy landings. The last opera- tional sortie was against the S.S. barracksat Berchtesgaden. During World War 1 the squadron flew213 sorties and dropped 185 tons of bombs and during World War 2 it made 3,000sorties and dropped 17,500 tons. The battle honours chosen for the stand-ard are Ypres, 1917; Somme, 1918; Inde- pendent Air Force and Germany, 1918;Malaya, 1941-1942; Fortress Europe, 1943- 1944; Ruhr, 1943-1945; Berlin, 1943-1945;Normandy, 1944. C.A.S. in U.S.A. TAST week Air Chief Marshal Sir-•-'William Dickson, Chief of the Air Staff, visited Washington for discussions withGen. Twining, Chief of Staff of the Four Venoms of No. 266 Sqn., 2nd T.A.F., based at Wunstorf, Germany, go smoothly . over the top of a loop in box formation. U.S.A.F. It is understood that one of thesubjects discussed was the growing share which Bomber Command could now beginto take in keeping up the global striking force at present solely manned by StrategicAir Command. There has always been close understanding and co-operation inthis field, but only now is the R.A.F. able to contribute its own long-range fastbombers to the scheme. Sir William, in a New York statement,denied a London report that he had ad- vocated a unified command. "It is prema-ture to consider anything like that," he said. Canadian F2H Banshees '"TECHNICIANS of the Royal Canadian•*• Navy are at present at the U.S. Navy air base at Cecil Field, Florida, learning tomaintain the McDonnell F2H-3 Banshee single-seat all-weather fighters which willform the equipment of the first Canadian Naval jet squadron, designated VF-870. Normally based at H.M.C.S. Shear-water, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, the squad- ron is to embark in H.M.C.S. Bonaventure,the new carrier, after she is commissioned at the end of next year. No. 234 SquadronI T is proposed to place on record thehistory of No. 234 Squadron, now with 2nd T.A.F. The Commanding Officer, S/L. R. E.Emett, A.F.C., would be pleased to hear from ex-members of the unit, particularlyfrom those who served during the periods from 1939 to 1946 and from re-forming in1952 to the present day. Another period for which information is sought covers thelatter period of the 1914-18 war. Photographs and matter should beaddressed to S/L. Emett at No. 234 Squadron, R.A.F., 2nd T.A.F., B.A.O.R.l. ReunionsT HE tenth annual reunion of No. 85 Sqn.will be held at the R.A.F. Reserves Club, London, W.I, on November 12th.Particulars from J. Roberts, 14, Carisbrook Close, Enfield, Middx.No. 150 Sqn. annual reunion will be held on October 15th at the Swiss Hotel, 53,Old Compton Street, London, W.I. Tickets, price 6s 6d, obtainable on appli-cation to L. E. Hodgson, The Cottage, 12, Waldgrave Road, Bickley, Kent. First view of an Auster A.O.P.9 in service. It is here being flown over the Malayan jungle near Ulu Langat, Selangor, by Maj. A. F. Robertson, R.A., commander of No. 656 A.O.P. Light Liaison Flight. The picture was taken on the tenth anniversary of the flight's arrival in Malaya, and during the A.O.P.9's first sortie when leaflets were dropped to the terrorists.
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