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1957
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1 March 1957 291 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News Standard PresentationH ER MAJESTY THE QUEEN is topresent a Standard to No. 43 Squadron at R.A.F. Leuchars on Tuesday, June 4.The squadron hopes to see former mem- bers at the ceremony, and those wishingto attend should communicate as soon as possible with the Adjutant, No. 43 Squad-ron, Royal Air Force, Leuchars, Fife. City of London Farewell QUEEN Elizabeth the Queen Mother isto take the salute at the farewell parade of No. 600 (City of London) Sqn.,R.Aux.A.F., and No. 2600 (City of London) Sqn., R.Aux.A.F. Regiment, atFinsbury Barracks on Sunday, March 10. Afterwards the Queen Mother, who ishonorary air commodore of both squad- rons, will attend the laying-up of theNo. 600 Sqn. Standard in St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield. A.D.C. Appointment THE appointment of Air Marshal Sir1 Claude Pelly, K.C.B., C.B.E., M.C., as Air Aide-de-Carnp to the Queen, with effectfrom January 29, was announced in the London Gazette last week. He succeedsAir Chief Marshal Sir Francis J. Fogarty, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.F.C., A.F.C., on thelatter's retirement from the R.A.F. Air Marshal Pelly has been Controllerof Aircraft at the Ministry of Supply since November last year, having previously beenCommander-in-Chief, Middle East Air Force, from October 1953. From Decem-ber 1951 until going to the Middle East he was R.A.F. Instructor at the ImperialDefence College. No. 100 Sqn. Birthday /"\NE of the most famous R.A.F. bomber^-' squadrons—No. 100, now based at Wittering, Northants, and equipped withCanberras—celebrated its 40th birthday on February 23. Formed in 1917, nearly a yearbefore the R.A.F. itself came into being, No. 100 was the first specialized nightbomber squadron in the R.F.C. Originally flying F.E.2Bs, it was re-equipped towardsthe end of the war with Handley Page O/400s. When the last war started the squadron was based at Singapore, flyingtorpedo bombers, and during the Japanese invasion was virtually wiped out. In 1942it reformed as a Lancaster squadron and it has remained in Bomber Command eversince. The present commander is S/L. R. A. McPhie.No. 100 Squadron [a history of which was published in Flight for October 28,1955] is probably unique in having had three different mottoes during its exist-ence. The first was "Blood and Brains"; the second, Nemo me impune lacessit("None provokes me with impunity"), was acquired at Donibristle, Scotland, in the1930s; while its present badge was given to the squadron at Singapore in 1938, withthe Malay motto Sarang tebuan jangan dijolok ("Do not poke a hornet's nest"). Movements School Extension ON February 21, A.V-M. L. W. Cannon,Director-General of Organization, Air Ministry, opened new technical accommo-dation at the R.A.F. Movements School, Kidbrooke, London, S.E.3, and after theceremony presented to the commanding officer (S/L. L. H. Clint) the original paint-ing of the school badge, produced by the College of Arms and signed by H.M. theQueen. The school was founded in 1954 and its badge bears the motto Ars lenit her("Skill smooths the journey"). Ski-ing Champions ATZermatt,Switzerland,on February 20,**• the 1957 R.A.F. ski championship was won by F/L. Zenon Kaye of Fighter. Command. F/O. Nicholas Galpin (Flying Training Command) was second and Cpl.Rudolph Prochazka (R.A.F. College, Cran- well) third. Battle of Britain Week THIS year Battle of Britain Week will befrom Monday, September 9, to Sunday. September 15; and by decision of the AirCouncil, September 15 has been fixed as Battle of Britain day. As this is a Sundayit will be made the occasion for ceremonial parades which will include religious ser-vices. On Saturday, September 14, a num- ber of R.A.F. stations will be "at home." Pilots of No. 1913 Light Liaison Flight after landing their Austers at R.A.F. Station Aldergrove, N.I., last week to assist in defence against I.R.A. operations. Left to right: Copt. P. Wilson, D.F.C., commanding officer (the unit is under Army operational control); S/Sgt. R. Meaton, Sgt. R. Adamson; Sgt T. Davies and S/Sgt. R. Hall. P/O. Judith Church, as the best officer cadet, receives the sash of merit from G/O. Jean Conan-Doyle at last week's passing-out parade at No. 41 W.R.A.F. Officer Training Unit, Hawkinge, Kent. R.A.A.F. ReservesI N Brisbane last week Air Marshal SirJohn McCauley, retiring C.A.S. of the R.A.A.F., said it would be "ruinous" forAustralia to follow Britain's lead in dis- persing its reserve air force units. Thesestill had a real part to carry out in Austra- lia's defence, and piloted aircraft wouldremain a major factor in R.A.A.F. planning for many years to come—though it wasaware of the vital defence contributions made by guided weapons, and was playinga big part in their development by helping to maintain missile-testing areas. No. 603 Squadron's Farewell IN Edinburgh on February 17, No. 603(City of Edinburgh) Sqn., R.Aux.A.F.— which was formed in 1925 and in the lastwar had the distinction of destroying the first enemy aircraft over this country—held its final parade when the squadron Standard was laid up in St. Giles' Cathe-dral. Sir John Banks, the Lord Provost, took the salute at the Mound as the squad-ron, headed by its pipes and drums, marched to the cathedral. During the ser-vice, lessons were read by the Earl of Selkirk, First Lord of the Admiralty anda former commanding officer of No. 603, and by the present CO., S/L. M. E.Hobson. Antarctic Air Operations AIR reconnaissance operations by the*• R.A.F. detachment with the British Transantarctic Expedition, carrying out thetwofold objective of helping the main party to find a way through pack ice to theexpedition's base at Shackleton (on Vahsel Bay in the Weddell Sea) and of preparingfor the crossing of the polar plateau, have been described in messages from S/L. JohnLewis, A.F.C., the detachment's command- ing officer. A total of 55 hours' flying has beenachieved by the pilots, S/L. Lewis and F/L. Gordon Haslop, in the Otter (whichlias been flown for 37 hours, taking off and landing on skis) and the Auster (18 hours,8 from water using floats), the two aircraft with which the detachment is equipped. S/L. Lewis reported recently in a signalto Air Ministry that all preliminary recon- naissance flights had been completed andthat "depot laying" (the establishment of Depot 300, the expedition's post 300 milessouth of Shackleton) was to begin shortly.
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