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1956
1956 - 0096.PDF
96 FLIGHT, 20 January 1956 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News Changes at Cranwell A NUMBER of changes are to be intro- ** duced this year into the flying train- ing and other instruction given to pilots and navigators at the R.A.F. College, Cran- well. Changes are also being made in the method and frequency of entry. The altera- tions have been decided upon by the Air Council so that the College may the better fulfil its task of training officers, not only as highly qualified pilots, but also as leaders fitted in due course to hold the highest posts in the Service. Cadets from now on will complete their flying training on jet aircraft at the College. The College airfield runways have been extended to permit operation of Vampire T.ll trainers, and the Cranwell flying training syllabus now falls into line with that of the other R.A.F. flying training schools. Hitherto Cranwell cadets have taken their jet flying course after leaving the College. The length of the College course is being increased from eight terms, lasting two years eight months, to nine terms, lasting three years. The object of this is to achieve the standard of education which is essential in these days of more complex aircraft and equipment at the same time as providing additional time for flying training on jets during the College course. There will be two instead of three entries each year. In 1956 these will be in January and September. Students will be officer-cadets from the date of entering Cranwell instead of as hitherto holding airman status for the first two terms. This will enable the new entrant to concentrate his energy and interest on a more progres- sive educational syllabus and on officer training from the start. After the January 1956 entry the mini- mum educational standard for all candi- dates will be that of the Civil Service Com- missioners' examination, which is broadly equivalent to that reached at the end of the first year in a 6th Form. This aim is to achieve a greater uniformity of educa- tion background among the cadets, result- ing in a general raising of the standard of education reached at the College. Hitherto A.T.C. cadets and members of a R.A.F. section of the Combined Cadet Force hold- ing a Proficiency Certificate have been admitted to Cranwell with somewhat lower educational qualifications. The Air Ministry Selection Board will, however, take into account a boy's service in the A.T.C. or the C.C.F. and particularly the holding of a Proficiency Certificate in awarding places at Cranwell. All pilot and navigator cadets will re- ceive training in basic navigation—includ- ing some 60 hours' flying—during their first year. This training will be done in Marathon and Valetta aircraft. In the second year pilots will pass on to the Provost-Vampire flying training, and navi- gators will embark on their advanced navigation training. Atomic Weapons Task Force THE Air Task Force for the third series •*- of British atomic tests in the Monte Bello Islands is being formed under the command of G/C. S. W. B. Menaul, D.F.C., A.F.C. More than twenty air- craft of the R.A.F. and several from the Royal Australian Air Force will form part of the Force which will operate from Pearce Field, Western Australia, and Onslow, North-Western Australia. Can- berras operating from Pearce Field will be employed in collecting and delivering cloud samples, and also in a variety of photographic tasks. Varsities and Whirl- wind helicopters will carry out other tasks including low-level radiological surveys, vertical photography over the explosion area and air communication between the mainland and the Monte Bello islands. Neptunes of the R.A.A.F. will be flying area safety patrols, watching for surface shipping and ensuring that none is in the danger area at the time of the detonations. From mid-February four Shackletons of Coastal Command will fly daily over the Timor Sea from Darwin. They will be on the look-out for tropical storms known as "willy-willies." While the R.A.F. element of the Air Task Force will be mainly self-supporting the fullest facilities have been offered by the R.A.A.F. at its bases in Australia. W/C. P. F. Raw, D.F.C., A.F.C., R.A.A.F., and other R.A.A.F. officers will serve on G/C. Menaul's staff No. 84 Squadron Standard ON January 5th, Air Chief Marshal SirFrancis Fogarty, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.F.C. (Air Council Member for Per- sonnel), presented the Standard to No. 84 Squadron at R.A.F. Station Abu Sueir. Sir Francis, who commanded No. 84 Squadron in 1935-37, is engaged on a tour of the Middle and Far East Air Forces. Two other former squadron commanders now stationed in M.E.A.F. were also present—A.V-M. D. H. F. Barnett, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C. (A.O.C., No. 205 Group), and A. Cdre. C. D. C. Boyce, C.B., C.B.E. (A.O.C., Cyprus). R.A.A.F. PromotionsT HE R.A.A.F. New Year Promotion List included the following senior ranks: To Air Commodore: G/C. (acting air commodore) W. H. Garing, C.B.E., D.F.C., Commandant, R.A.A.F. Staff Col- lege, Point Cook; G/C. G. C. Hartnell, C.B.E., Director of Air Staff Plans and Policy. To Group Captains: W/C. I. S. Podger, D.F.C., Senior R.A.A.F. Officer in Japan; W/C. A. E. L. Davies; W/C. C. F. Read; W/C. R. N. Dalkin, D.F.C., Commandant, R.A.A.F. College (Cadets) Point Cook; W/C. I. J. Roberts, Staff Officer to C.A.S. Half-yearly Promotions THE following list of R.A.F. half-yearlypromotions continues that published in our issue of January 6th: — Air Commodore to Air Vice-Marshal.—General Duties Branch: W. P. G. Pretty, C.B.E. (Act. A.V-M.); K. B. B. Cross, C.B.,C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C.; M. L. Heath, O.B.E. (Act. A.V-M.). Technical Branch: P. S.Blockey, C.B., C.B.E., B.A., M.I.Mech.E. (Act. A.V-M.). Equipment Branch: G. L.Worthington, C.B.E. (Act. A.V-M.). Medical Branch: P. B. L. Potter, C.B.E., M.D., Ch.B.,D.P.H., D.T.M. and H., Q.H.S. (Act. A.V-M.). Group Captain to Air Vice-Marshal.—Education Branch: A. C. Kermode, O.B.E., M.A., F.R.Ae.S., A.D.C. (Act. A.V-M.).Group Captain to Air Commodore.— General Duties Branch: P. H. Hamley,A.F.C.; M. H. Dwyer, C.B.E.; T. A. B. Parselle, C.B.E.; S. C. Elworthy, C.B.E.,D.S.O., M.V.O., D.F.C., A.F.C.; D. R. Evans, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C.; J. Grandy, D.S.O.Technical Branch: C. E. Hartley; J. Mutch, C.B.E.; C. L. Dann, C.B.E., B.Sc, F.R.Ae.S.Medical Branch: J. Magner, M.D., B.Ch. Wing Commander to Group Captain.—General Duties Branch: J. S. Laird, O.B.E.; W. H. Tremear; L. M. Laws; K. J. Mellor,D.S.O., D.F.C.; A. J. Trumble, O.B.E.; R. D. Smbbs, D.F.C.; P. R. Walker, D.S.O., D.F.C.;P. R. Beare, D.S.O., D.F.C.; D. D. Rogers, O.B.E.; K. J. McDonald, O.B.E., D.F.C.; F.Hume; E. G. L. Millington, C.B.E., D.F.C.; B. R. Macnamara, D.S.O.; E. J. Morris,D.S.O., D.F.C.; T. W. Kean, A.F.C.; D. G. Lyster, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C.; W. Carter,D.F.C. Technical Branch: R. G. Stone; J. C. Pope, A.F.R.Ae.S.; L. D.Dadswell,B.Sc.(Eng.),D.I.C.; S. C. W. Rudd, M.B.E.; S. W. Lane, M.B.E., A.M.I.Mech.E., A.F.R.Ae.S.; G. C.Godfrey, M.B.E. Equipment Branch: F. B. King; A. Selby. Secretarial Branch: F. S.Wakeham; C. W. S. Jones, A.C.A.; P. H. Roscoe, A.C.A. Squadron Leader to Wing Commander.— General Duties Branch: R. B. Lord, A.F.C.;G. L. Mattey, D.F.C., A.F.C.; A. P. Smallman, D.S.O., A.F.C.; R. Broadbent, D.F.C.; J. R.Musgrave, D.S.O.; R. F. T. Doe, D.S.O., D.F.C.; R. S. Boast, D.F.C.; W. M. Dixon,D.S.O., D.F.C.; A. F. Wallace, O.B.E., D.F.C.; M. A. Ensor, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C.; V. S. H.Duclos, D.F.C.; F. G. Woolley, D.F.C.; B. G. Frow, D.S.O., D.F.C.; J. H. Johnson, D.F.C.;D. F. B. Sheen, D.F.C.; A. J. Picknett, D.F.C.; N. Cameron, D.S.O., D.F.C.; J. C. Hutton,D.F.C.; H. M. S. Green; R. B. Cole, D.F.C., A.F.C.; J. Finch, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C.;T. W. Horton, D.S.O., D.F.C.; K. G. Hubbard, O.B.E., D.F.C.; R. Aytoun, D.F.C.;K. McK. Murray, D.F.C.; L. A. Malins, D.S.O., D.F.C.: W. Laing, A.F.C.; D. Clare,D.F.C.; A. G. Conway, D.F.C.; F. Ruskell, D.F.C.; K. W. T. Pugh, A.F.C.; O. J. Wells;J. A. Bush, D.F.C.; D. K. Warburton, A.F.C.; K. C. Giddings, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C.;P. A. H. McKeand, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C.; I. G. Broom, D.S.O., D.F.C.; H. L. Lewis;P. H. Stembridge, D.F.C., A.F.C. Technical Branch: H. R. Crowley; W. H. Webber; J. H. I.Stirling; F. Parvin; E. H. Maule, A.F.R.Ae.S.; J. B. Evans; A. D. Miller, A.F.R.Ae.S.; R.Brown, M.B.E., D.F.M., A.F.R.Ae.S.; S. F. Kettell; C. A. H. Goudie, B.Sc.; H. J. Knevitt,B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M.I.Mech.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., A.C.G.I., D.C.Ae.; R. E. W. Harland, M.A.,A.M.I.Mech.E., A.F.R.Ae.S.; W. E. French, B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M.I.Mech.E., A.F.R.Ae.S.; D. W. Densham, B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., A.R.C.S.,Dip. El.; J. R. Burges, B.Sc.; C. S. Betts, M.A.; J. E. Frith, B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., Dip. El.;A. W. Eyre, B.Sc.(Eng.), A.R.S.M.; S. J. Peters; E. D. Smith, B.Sc.; I. D. H. Gib-bins, M.B.E., B.Sc.(Eng.), A.M.I.Mech.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., A.C.G.I., D.C.Ae.; C. T. Nance,M.A., A.M.I.Mech.E., A.F.R.Ae.S.; C. N. S. Pringle, M.A., A.F.R.Ae.S.; E. J. Penton-Voak,B.Sc.(Eng.), A.F.R.Ae.S. Equipment Branch: R. L. Browning; C. D. Burrill; J. W. Lovell;G. R. Cook; J. C. Cracroft-Rice; P. L. Hancox, O.B.E.; E. G. F. Hill. Secretarial Branch: E. R. H. Caven, A.S.A.A.; W. C. Chadwick;A. C. Smith, A.S.A.A.; S. Robinson, A.C.A.; R. W. Jeary; P. Duxfield; G. Davidson; S.Findlay, M.B.E.; G. A. Potter, O.B.E.; T. Phillips. Squadron Officer to Wing Officer,W.R.A.F.: B. G. Martin; F. R. Pendand. Royal Air Force Regiment (SquadronLeader to Wing Commander).—C. H. Baker; D. A. Pocock. Medical Branch: K. R. Hudson,M.B., B.S., M.R.C.O.G.; J. M. Urquhart, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H.; S. M. Rigg, M.B., Ch.B.; E. S. Odbert, M.B.E., M.B., B.Ch. DentalBranch: P. A. Askew, B. D. S.; D. F. G. Macleod, L.D.S.; W. D. Sinclair, L.D.S.Education Branch: W. Thomson, B.Sc, A.M.I.Mech.E.; R. Duckett, B.Sc. ProvostBranch: A. W. Pink.
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