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1956
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660 FLIGHT, 25 May 1956 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News U.L.A.S. Roll of HonourT HE University of London Air Squad-ron, whose headquarters are at 48, Princes Gardens, London, S.W.7, is com-piling a roll of past members who lost their lives, and of those who were decorated,while serving in H.M. Forces from 1935 onwards. Since it is now no longer pos-sible to trace many of these, information on names, rank, college, decorations, dateof award and/or date of death which readers can supply would be much appre-ciated by the Commanding Officer of the squadron. No. 98 Sqn. History ; -T HE history of No. 98 Sqn. is being pre- pared and the Commanding Officer at Jever, Germany, B.A.O.R. 25, is anxious to obtain material covering the period be- tween 1918 and 1950. Any material sup- plied will be carefully treated and returned if requested. 2nd T.A.F. Aerobatics A FLIGHT Commander of No. 118Sqn. at Jever has been selected by the A.O.C.-in-C. 2nd T.A.F., Air Marshal theEarl of Bandon, as the official solo aero- batics demonstrator for the R.A.F. in Ger-many. He is F/L. K. Goodwin. His first appearance will be at the air display atButzweilerhof on June 3, and he is also booked to appear at Strasbourg on July 1,Charleville on August 5, Avignon in September and Clermont Ferrand onSeptember 25. The team chosen to represent 2ndT.A.F. in air displays is drawn from No. 93 Sqn. also based at Jever. It is led bythe CO., S/L. D. F. M. Browne, who formed the Sabre team which the presentHunter team has replaced. Other mem- bers are F/O. D. S. Chadwick, F/O. D.Exley and F/O. B. A. E. Sanderson. No. 93 Sqn. was first formed in WorldWar 1 and re-formed for experimental work in 1940. It later took part in operations inNorth Africa, Malta, Sicily, Corsica, Italy, Jugoslavia, Austria and France. In 1950it was based at Celle. Arrest by Helicopter "DOSSIBLY the first arrest ever made by-"- a helicopter crew occurred in Cyprus recently, after Cpl. P. J. Hale had been shotby terrorists while working in a hut just outside the guarded perimeter of Nicosiaairfield. Two helicopters were actually in- volved in the operation. One had beenstanding by for air/sea rescue duties and the other was waiting for just such aneventuality. Minutes after the alarm was given both machines were airborne andhelping troops to search the surrounding area for the terrorists. A few minutes later one of the pilotsspotted a man hiding in a tree and landed close by. The man was arrested and flownback to the airfield to be put under guard. The other machine flew round andexamined people on the roads and indi- cated one suspect. Helicopters were extensively used in "Run Aground VII," a recent demonstration of amphibious warfare techniques at Eastney Beach, Portsmouth. It was staged for the benefit of Staff College students. Here Royal Marine Commandos are being flown in a Sycamore while a Dragonfly picks up a cargo net from the bow of a landing craft. Canberra Salvage Operation SOME 90 per cent of the wreckage of theCanberra which came down in the sea off Shoreham recently was successfully sal-vaged by R.N. divers from the salvage vessel Barfoss and the minesweeper Ding-ley. Inshore minesweepers also assisted in locating the wreckage after the position ofthe crash had been buoyed. The wreckage was landed at Portsmouth Dockyard. C.F.S Examining WingT HE M.E.A.F. is to be visited by theC.F.S. Examining Wing, led by W/C. R. S. Radley, from next week until June29. The thirteen examiners, including two for helicopter pilots, will travel in a Valettaand visit Acrotiri, Cyprus; Amman, Jordan; Khormaksar, Aden; Eastleigh,Kenya; Bahrein, Persian Gulf; Habbaniya, Iraq; Nicosia, Cyprus; and Luqa andTakali, Malta. Air Cadets in the U.S.A. TTNDER the 1956 International Air*-^ Cadet Exchange Scheme, 60 members of the A.T.C. and the R.A.F. section of theC.C.F. are to fly overseas for three-week tours this summer. Parties will leaveLondon Airport on July 19, 25 flying to Canada, 25 to the U.S.A. and ten to Euro-pean countries. The_ party in Canada will be guests ofthe Air League of Canada and will visit Montreal, stay 12 days in Vancouver andthe Rocky Mountains and return via Ottawa. The U.S.A. party will visit Wash-ington and then go to Chicago and spend ten days as the guests of the State of Illi-nois. They will visit some of the largest industrial plants, such as the Ford motorworks, before returning east for four days in New York. In Europe, small parties—each of two cadets—will variously go to France, Holland, Italy, Norway andSweden. While the visitors are abroad, 60 aircadets from foreign countries will spend three weeks touring the British Isles. Thisis the ninth year of the Air Cadet Exchange Scheme. Air Marshal Sir Francis Fressanges, A.O.C.- in-C. F.E.A.F., inspecting a U.S.A.F. B-57B (Martin-built Canberra) at Clark Field in the Philippines, during a recent informal gathering of Far East force commanders. Excelsior Air-Firing BannerA NEW device has been developed to en-able F.A.A. aircraft to take off with a furled banner target from an airfield or froma carrier deck, and to stream it in the air. Evolved by No. 802 Sqn. during its previ-ous formation at Lossiemouth, the device is based on the use, in the prototype, of afluid flywheel from a 1937 10 h.p. car bought from a scrap yard for £4 10s. Thetowing cable is wound on a drum and a standard bomb-slip allows jettisoning atany time. The advantage of the new gear is thatit allows banners to be flown off without obstructing the runway at busy airfieldsand makes it possible for a carrier to pro- vide its own target tugs and thus be inde-pendent of shore-based tugs. Joint Birthday FOR the first time Nos. 2 and 3 Sqns.celebrated their joint birthdays together recently. Based at Geilenkirchen, theyheld a drum-head service to mark their 44th birthday and paraded their standardstogether. No. 2 Sqn. is commanded by S/L. R. S. Mortley and No. 3 by S/L. T.Hutchinson.
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