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1956
1956 - 1312.PDF
462 FLIGHT, 1 September 1956 SERVICE AVIATION . . . "Sarah's" Success Remembered '"THE first member of the R.A.F. to be-*- rescued with the aid of his "Sarah" (Search And Rescue And Homing) beacon,F/O. N. Williams, then with No. 66 Sqn., Linton-on-Ouse, has been presented by diemakers of "Sarah," Ultra Electric, Ltd., with a silver tankard bearing the inscrip-tion "Whose homely guidance saved him from the drink." F/L. Thompson, pilot ofthe rescue helicopter, was given an Ultra television viewer for his squadron's crewroom. New Angle T^HE light fleet carrier Warrior has been•*• recommissioned at Devonport after an extensive refit which included the additionof an angled flight deck. 1,500 Evacuations OPERATING first Dragonflies and thenSycamores in Malaya, No. 194 Sqn. has now evacuated its 1,500th casualty fromthe Malayan jungle. Several pilots in die squadron, which is commanded by S/L.Turner, have passed the century in evacua- tions, and the 1,500th was made by F/L.W. Spencer, R.N.Z.A.F. Royal Thai Air Force MissionD URING this week a Royal Thai AirForce mission, led by the Deputy C-in-C, Air Chief Marshal Luang ChertVuddhakas, has been visiting the Air Ministry and certain R.A.F. units in diiscountry. The mission was also to see the S.B.A.C. Display, an aircraft factory, Lon-don Airport and Eton Collegej before leaving for New York. Germans AttachedT HE three German Air Force officerswho recently completed R.A.F. flying training courses are now with Hunter During a recent visit to Malaya, the Air Member for Person- nel, Air Chief Mar- shal Sir Francis Fogarty, presented a contemporary paint- ing of a dragonfly to No. 194 Sqn., whose badge includes this emblem. Receiving it is S/L. C. R. Turner,the CO. squadrons on short attachments. MajorW. G. Krupinski is widi No. 41 Sqn., Biggin Hill; Lt-Col. H. A. H. Wehnelt withNo. 222 Sqn., Leuchars; and Major G. F. Barkhorn with No. 257 Sqn., Wymeswold. S.E.A.T.O. Naval-Air Exercises LATER this month a S.E.A.T.O. naval-J air exercise called "Albatross" will be held in the South China Sea. Operationswill conclude in the Philippine area at the end of October. Malayan OperationsI N die first six months of this year Austersand Dakotas from the "Voice" flight of No. 267 Sqn., based at R.A.F. Kuala Lum-pur, broadcast for more than 300 hours in 337 sorties. During the same period Valettas of theFar East Transport Wing, assisted by Bristol Freighters of No. 41 Sqn.,R.N.Z.A.F., carried out 151 sorties in which they dropped more than 52 millionanti-terrorist leaflets. They also delivered three million pounds of food and supplies.In addition, the R.A.F. Valettas dropped special para-packs containing food, clothing,tobacco and small luxuries for a group of 200 aborigines who recently escaped froma terrorist formation which had been using them as slave labour. Strikes were made by Canberras andVenoms. Pioneers of No. 267 Sqn. under- took 3,524 sorties, carrying 1,736 pas-sengers, 1,930 fully armed and equipped troops and nearly 400,000 lb of suppliesand equipment. They evacuated 58 casualties. No. 194 Squadron Sycamores made2,899 operational flights, carrying nearly 1,000 passengers and 55,000 lb of freight.Whirlwinds of No. 155 Sqn. flew 5,187 sorties, carrying 7,441 troops and 88,000 lbof freight. Another operation by the Far East Trans-port Wing was the dropping of members of No. 22 Special Air Service Regimentinto south-western Kelantan for action against terrorists known to be hiding indeep jungle. Men of diis regiment^ which now includes a New Zealand squadron, aretrained at the Far East Parachute Training School, R.A.F. Changi, Singapore. R.A.A.F. Exercises OEVEN R.A.A.F. Canberras of No. 2^ Sqn. carried out a 6,500-mile round- Australia bombing and navigation exerciselast month. They took off at three-minute intervals from their base at Amberley,Queensland, and, in a series of sorties, "bombed" Darwin, Perth, East Sale in Vic-toria and Evans Head in New South Wales. W/C. A. Cross of No. 82 Wing piloteddie leading aircraft and die whole route /n Brisbane this example of winching between Sycamore and DUKW amphibious lorry was staged in public to show how the Australian Army and Navy could co-operate to save life in case of serious floods. was flown at 40,000ft in a flying time of15 hours. The stages of the round trip were up to 2,000 miles long and the aircraftarrived over their targets within seconds of the planned time. The aiming pointson each sortie were on bombing ranges. W/C. Cross also set up a new officiallytimed speed record between Guildford, Western Australia, and Eagle Farm, Bris-bane, by covering the 2,250 miles in 3 hr 20 min at a speed of 676 m.p.h. He madeuse of a strong jet stream. His aircraft was a long-range version of die Australian Can-berra. S/L. H. W. Connolly, CO. of No. 2 Sqn., made an officially timed flightfrom Darwin to Brisbane on August 7 in 3 hr 4 min at a speed of 580 m.p.h. Thedistance is 1,778 miles. For an armament display at the East SaleAir Armament School two other Canberras made the 1,800 mile round trip betweenAmberley and East Sale in under diree hours, dropping 5,000 lb live explosiveson a target at East Sale. Both aircraft scored hits. Odier demonstrations featuredevery operational aircraft in the R.A.A.F. except the Meteor. Lincolns at 6,000ft and200ft bombed obsolete aircraft and Bren gun carriers, and Vampires demonstrateddive bombing and napalm attacks. Main item was an attack by Avon Sabres, eachcarrying sixteen 60 lb rockets, and by another Avon Sabre using its two 30 mmAden guns. A Neptune made rocket attacks on a dummy submarine. A Lincolnattacked the same target and showed die technique of circling at 200ft to allow mid-upper and tail turret gunners to strafe the dummy. This is the technique used inMalaya against bandit camps. Auxiliary AppointmentI T is announced that S/L. S. Walker, aregular officer, is to command No. 611 (West Lancashire) Sqn., based at R.A.F.Hooton Park. He enlisted in 1942 and was posted to No. 22 Air School, Soudi Africa,in 1944. After die war he joined No. 87 Sqn. in die Mediterranean and subse-quently Nos. 250 and 112. After a tour with No. 6 Sqn. he returned to Englandand flew with No. 631 before going to Sylt to convert pilots onto Tempests. Between1950 and his present appointment he served with Nos. 20 and 612 Sqns. andwidi No. 233 O.C.U. Good Shot TN die trials for the British Olympic shoot--*- ing team at Bisley recendy, F/L. H. A. Steele gained a place for the pistol events.He took part in the 1948 and 1952 Olym- pics and diis year became R.A.F. pistolchampion for the diird time. He has held both the R.A.F. and N.R.A. Service riflechampionships. Reunion ON November 3 a reunion of No. 612Sqn. will be held in London. Details from W. N. Parsons, Wildcroft, FarmLane, East Horsley, Surrey.
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