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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 1079.PDF
FLIGHT, 10 August 1956 THREE ROYAL OCCASIONS 'THE thorough and whole-hearted pre-A paration which goes into the brief pageantry of a Royal visit is well illustratedby these pictures of recent occasions when the Queen (accompanied by the Duke ofEdinburgh) and Princess Margaret went variously to R.A.F. and Fleet Air Armstations. On the right is a view from behind the saluting base at Lee-on-Solent,after the Queen had presented her Colour to the Fleet Air Arm, as Whirlwinds andDragonflies cruised by the breeze-blown Royal Standard in the fly-past of over ahundred aircraft which formed the climax of the ceremony. Left, below, Princess Margaret—look-ing the epitome of summer coolness—takes a judicious peep into the cockpit of a Jave-lin during her visit to R.A.F. station Hor- sham St. Faith; and (right, below) theQueen—visiting R.A.F. station Marham— has the operation of a Martin-Baker Mk 3ejection seat, as fitted in the station's Valiants, explained to her. "And grace that won who saw to wish her stay" — Milton
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