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1956
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282 FLIGHT, 24 August 1956 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News R.Aux.A.F. Salute Vl/HEN the Queen and the Duke of* * Edinburgh came to Leith harbour in the Royal Yacht Britannia last Sunday,four Vampires of No. 603 (City of Edin- burgh) Sqn., R.Aux.AJF., flew past insalute. The Queen is the squadron's Honorary Air Commodore. Senior AppointmentsT HE Air Ministry announces the appoint-ment of A.V-M. P. B. L. Potter to be Director General of R.A.F. Medical Ser-vices, with the acting rank of air marshal, with effect from February next year, insuccession to Air Marshal Sir James Kilpatrick, who will be retiring. A. Cdre. J. Worrall is appointed A.O.A.at H.Q. Flying Training Command with effect from August 20 with the acting rankof air vice-marshal. A. Cdre. G. A. M. Knight is to be Prin-cipal Medical Officer, 2nd T.A.F., with effect from September 10, and A. Cdre.L. M. Corbet is to be Deputy Director of Medical Services at Air Ministry witheffect from October 1. A.V-M. Sir Hazelton NichollW E regret to record the death last weekof A.V-M. Sir Hazelton R. Nicholl, Controller of the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund.He served from 1899 to 1902 in the London Scottish Volunteers and then in the SouthRhodesia Volunteers. In 1915 he qualified as a pilot at Brooklands, joined the R.F.C.and served with Nos. 8, 84, 86 and 110 Sqns., commanding the last-named unit.After World War 1 he was granted a per- manent commission and in 1926 took com-mand of No. 70 (Bomber) Sqn. at Hinaidi. Three years later he was promoted C.B.E.for his services there in connection with the operations against the Akhwan in the Congratulated by A.V-M. G. P. Cham- berlain and the Ger- man Ambassador, Herr von Herwarth, are the German pilots who received their wings after training with the R.A.F., Mai. W. G. Krupinski. Lt- Col. H. A. H. Wehnelt and Maj. G. F. Barkhorn. Southern Desert. Then he became DeputyDirector first of Training, then of Personal Services, then of Manning. In 1935 he waslent to the Australian Government and served as Air Member for Personnel onthe Air Board of the R.A.A.F. He was appointed A.O.C. in the Middle East in1938, until he was succeeded by Air Marshal Sir William Mitchell when theappointment was raised to that of A.O.C-in-C. After serving as A.O.A.Fighter Command, he retired in 1942 and joined B.O.A.C. for a period. • R.A.F. at GardermoenH UNTERS and Canberras took part,with aircraft from Norway, Sweden and America, in the annual Norwegian airshow at Gardermoen, near Oslo, on August 19. In spite of a downpour, whichprevented the rendering of an opening sonic boom, the Hunters and Canberras arereported to have acquitted themselves well. New Bishop for the Forces A NEW bishop has been appointed totake over the duties of the Right Rev. Cuthbert Bardsley, now Bishop of Coventry, as the Archbishop of Canter- On several occasions in recent months U.S. Naval aircraft have landed on British carriers to gain experience of the mirror sight, now officially called Optical Glide-Path Indicator. Here a Grumman F9F Cougar from U.S.S. "Intrepid" makes a "touch and go" aboard H.M.S. "Eagle" in the Mediterranean during the recent Exercise Maltex. bury's episcopal representative with theForces. He is the Rev. S. Betts, vicar of Holy Trinity, Cambridge, who will becomesuffragan bishop of Maidstone. This bishopric has been vacant for ten years andhas been revived specially for the purpose. No. 155 Sqn. Airlift NINE Whirlwinds of No. 155 Sqn. inMalaya recently lifted 355 troops and 5,100 lb of cargo into jungle clearings dur-ing a three-day anti-terrorist operation on the Malaya/Thailand border. More than200 sorties were flown from Kuala Lumpur on to rapidly prepared bamboo-platformlanding sites in swampy areas. Tour de PR.A.F.T HE five-day R.A.F. cycle race over a467-mile route from R.A.F. Wilmslow to R.A.F. Abingdon ended last Friday invictory for L.A/C. L. Gill of Cosford a whowas riding for Technical Training Com- mand. Second was S.A/C. I. Sandbach,with L.A/C. J. Warren a close third. The team championship was won by TechnicalTraining Command and the rider gaining most points for climbing selected hills dur-ing the race was S.A/C. I. Sandbach, who is stationed at R.A.F. Stafford. The race was organized in much thesame way as major continental events, with the winner of each day's run wearing adistinctive jersey the next day. Night stops were made at R.A.F. stations. R.A.F. Lawn Tennis Victory THE R.A.F. achieved an overwhelmingvictory in the Services lawn tennis championship at Wimbledon last week,winning 12 matches. The Army came second with four wins and the Navy thirdwith two. In the women's championships the W.R.A.F. came third. Royal Visit Standard Bearer IN a caption to an Air Ministry photo-graph of the Queen presenting a stand- ard to No. 207 Sqn. (published on August3, page 178), the name of the Standard- bearer was given as F/O. R. C. Havers,according to official information. We now learn that this should have read F/O. R. C.Haven. ReunionT HE M.R.E.S. Officers' eighth reunionwill take the form of a dinner to be held on October 27. Particulars from S/L.P. E. Laughton-Bramley, M.B.E., 18A Cadogan Place, London, S.W.I.
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