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1956
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740 FLIGHT, 2 November 1956 • Anglers All: Forming line-abreast off Malta are these three angled-deck carriers of the Mediterranean Fleet—H.M.S. "Eagle" (foreground), Flagship of Vice Admiral L. M. Power, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Flag Officer Air- craft Carriers; H.M.S. "Bulwark"; and H.M.S "Albion." The aircraft are D.H. Sea Venoms and Hawker Sea Hawks. SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News Prize CadetsO NE cadet from each entry at No. 1School of Technical Training at Halton and No. 1 Radio School at Lockingwill be s. sleeted for a prize cadetship, enabling him to go to the R.A.F. College,Cranwell, or the R.A.F. Technical College, Henlow. Nomination will be made by theCommandant of Halton and the Com- manding Officer at Locking. It will notbe necessary for the cadets to appear before a selection board The scheme doesnot affect the present award of cadetships to Cranwell made by the selection boardat the R.A.F. College. Radar Inspection AS the role of radar in air defenc:** expands, the standards of radar con- trol and reporting units must be increas-ingly efficient. The Air Ministry has formed a Control and Reporting Examin-ing Team to inspect such units both at home and overseas. The team is headedby W/C. F. J. Trollope, M.C., who has many years' experience of radar control.It will be based at H.Q. Fighter Com- mand and was due to start a tour ofFighter Command units at the end of October. Next year some overseas com-mands will be visited. Hospital at Akrotiri ALTHOUGH still housed in temporaryL buildings, the hospital at the R.A.F. airfield at Akrotiri, Cyprus, is well- equipped to suk the requirements of modern medicine. It is commanded by G/C. L. S. Everett, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., with a staff of 13 R.A.F. doctors, eightof them specialists. Nurses are members of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nurs-ing Service and are in charge of Sq/O. D. G. Masters, the matron. Although runby the R.A.F., the hospital cares for patients of all Services and their families.Plans are being drawn up for the con- struction of a permanent hospital. Radar Unit CommandI T is announced by the Air Ministrythat S/L. S. F. Burley has been appointed to command No. 3701 (Countyof Sussex) Radar Reporting Unit, R.Aux.A.F., at Leahurst, near Brighton.Towards the end of the war he under- took intelligence duties for the AlliedExpeditionary Air Force and later went to Australia for similar duties. After leav-ing the R.A.F. in 1946 he joined the R.A.F.V.R. in 1948 and the R.Aux.A.F.in 1953. G.C.E. Examinations HPHE General Certificate of Education••- examinations for R.A.F. personnel, conducted by the Cambridge LocalExaminations Syndicate, began this week and will continue until December 4. Agreat variety of subjects can be offered, not all of them purely academic. Examin-tion centres are provided for all three branches of the Services in Germany, theMiddle East and Far East, as well as in the United Kingdom. Numbers of R.A.F. personnel whoattend are particularly high. Since the forces G.C.E. scheme began in 1953 morethan 17,000 R.A.F. candidates have taken the examinations and 67 per cent of thesewere successful. Over 4,000 officers, air- men and airwomen sat for the examina-tion in July this year. South African Exercise T ECTURES and discussions formed the••—' first phase of an air/sea exercise off the west coast of the Cape of Good Hope,and active operations are now in progress. South African, British and French forcesare taking pan. Specialist Frigate " - AN "aircraft direction frigate," H.M.S.L Salisbury, was commissioned at Ply- mouth on October 22. She is the first of a Back from Maralinga, where they dropped an atomic weapon, P/O. G. W. Ford and F/O. G. B. Spencer, members of the Valiant crew, display their far less lethal cargo on the return journey to Wittering. The flight was completed in 23 flying hours. new type of specialized ship; only limitedinformation has been released about her, but she is presumed to have elaborateradar equipment, making the detection, direction and homing of aircraft possibleanywhere on the high seas. American RAF. Pilot Memorial A CHAPEL to the memory of an•**- American, P/O. James Neale Thome, D.F.C., who lost his life over Arnhemin September 1944 while serving in the R.A.F., was dedicated in BirminghamParish Church on October 22. P/O. Thome's father, Mr. Samuel Thome, wholives in New York and had contributed the major part of the cost of the chapel,attended the service. Regimental Museum (~)PENED recently at the R.A.F. Regi-^-' ment Depot, Catterick, is a museum displaying the history of the regiment.Past or present members of the regiment who are prepared to loan or give items ofinterest to the museum are asked to send details to the Commandant of the R.A.F.Regiment Depot, Catterick, Yorks. Random West A BOUT 100 Canadair Sabre 5s will be•**- returned to Canada from the R.C.A.F. 1st Air Division in France during Novem-ber. Some have become surplus since the latest Sabre 6s have been delivered andothers will be replaced by CF-100 all- weather fighters. About half the Sabre 5s will be flownacross the Atlantic via Prestwick, Keflavik, Bluie West and Goose Bay, while theremainder will be taken back on board the Canadian carrier Magnificent fromGlasgow. The ferry flights will be code- named Random West. On reaching Canada, some of theSabre 5s will be issued to the six Auxiliary fighter squadrons stationed near Montreal,Toronto and Vancouver. Others will go to the day fighter O.T.U. at Chatham, N.B. Reunions •••-...:T HE annual dinner of the 7 and 14R.N.A.S. and R.A.F. Handley Page Squadrons will be held at the Horse ShoeHotel, Tottenham Court Road, London, on November 9. Tickets, price £1, fromG. Conley, D.S.M., 62 Nightingale Lane, London, S.W.I2. A reunion of ex-R.A.F. and F.A.A. per-sonnel who served during World War 2 at ~ N.A.S. Pensacola, will be held in Londonon November 24. Particulars from L. V. . Armstrong, 47 Rutland Road, Wanstead,London, E.11.
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