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1957
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460 FLIGHT, 5 April 1957 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News Wyvern strike aircraft of No. 813 (F.A.A.) Sqn. make an aggres- sive above-cloud pat- tern. The squadron operating fromis Apprentices' MonthF IVE passing-out parades are being heldthis month at R.A.F. stations in Tech- nical Training Command for more than700 R.A.F. apprentices and boy entrants who have completed their training andwill become fully qualified regular airmen. The first takes place next Wednesday,April 10, at No. 2 School of Technical Training, R.A.F. Cosford, Salop, when thereviewing officer will be A.V-M. L. Dalton-Morris, A.O.C. No. 90 (Signals)Group. On the following day Air Marshal Sir Andrew McKee, A.O.C-in-C. Trans-port Command, will review boy entrants passing out from No. 4 School of TechnicalTraining, R.A.F. St. Athan, Glam. At the Administrative ApprenticesTraining School, R.A.F. Hereford, on April 13 the reviewing officer will beA.V-M. G. B. Beardsworth, A.O.C. No. 24 Group, Technical Training Command; AirMarshal Sir Geoffrey Tuttle, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, will review aircraftapprentices graduating from No. 1 Radio School, R.A.F. Locking, Som., onApril 16; and on April 17, at No. 1 School of Technical Training, R.A.F. Halton,Bucks, the reviewing officer will be Air Marshal Sir Douglas MacFadyen, A.O.C-in-C. Home Command. Malayan Gift to 848 Sqn. AN inscribed silver kris, traditional• weapon and now a national symbol of Malaya, has been given by the ChiefMinister (Tunku Abdul Rahman) and the Government of the Federation to No. 848(F.A.A.) Sqn. for its three years' out- standing anti-Communist operations. Thekris has been brought to Britain by the Flag Officer, Malayan Area, Rear AdmiralG. A. Thring, who will present it to the former commanding officer of the squad-ron, Lt-Cdr. D. T. J. Stanley, at R.N.A.S. Lee-on-Solent next Monday, April 8. Since it became operational in Malayain January, 1953, the squadron, equipped with Westland Whirlwinds, has beeninvolved in lifting thousands of troops into and out of the jungle, transporting V.I.P.s,tractors, tracker dogs, explosives and Pilots of No. 257 (Burma) Sqn. after they had taken part in a fly-past in their Hunter F.6s on Friday, March 29, to mark the squadron's disbandment. The ceremony—at R.A.F. Y/at- t'tsham, Suffolk—was attended by two attaches from the Burmese Embassy, Col. T. Han and S/L. K. law, and the A.O.C. No. 11 Group, A.V-M. V. S. Bowling, inspected the squadron and took the salute at a march-past. R.N.A.S. Ford. Sussex. "Flight" photograph stores, and dropping leaflets. Two yearsago, No. 848 Sqn. was awarded the Boyd Trophy for the most outstanding feat ofNaval aviation in 1953. Dome of Detection A NEW type of rigid radome, intendedfor use by the R.C.A.F. on the Mid- Canada Line, has been developed by theCanadian National Research Council in conjunction with specialists from theR.C.A.F. and the U.S.A.F. This type of One of the Canadian rigid radomes (de- scribed in the accompanying paragraph) built to house early-warning equipment. radome (one of which is depicted here-with) is of stressed-skin construction and does not require pressurization to retainrigidity. The present inflated type, made of fibre-glass or nylon fabric impregnatedwith neoprene, is subject to deflation if torn during storms. These radomes house rotating radarequipment. The first rigid type was developed in the U.S.A. and after success-ful tests many are in use on the DEW Line and other radar chains. R.C.A.F. Anniversary IN celebration of the 33rd anniversary ofof the R.C.A.F., the Air Force officers of the Canadian Joint Staff in London areto be hosts this evening (April 5) to mem- bers of the Commonwealth Air Forcesbased in England at a dinner held in the R.A.F. Club, Piccadilly, London, W.I. Ration Increases TMPROVED Service ration scales at-*- home and overseas, starting this month, were announced by the Minister of De-fence, Mr. Duncan Sandys, in a written Parliamentary answer on March 27. Themost important change will be an increase in the meat ration; and the rates ofallowances for those not drawing rations are to be raised, to take account of the newscales. R.A.F.A. Report IN a foreword to the R.A.F. Association'sannual report Air Marshal Sir Robert H. M. S. Saundby, chairman of thenational council, says that during 1956 the Association had been "able to do much tofurther its main object—to help in every way possible all men and women who areserving or who have served in the Royal Air Force, and their dependants." Sumscollected on "Wings Day" had increased every year, the figure for 1956 exceedingthat for 1955 by over £5,000. The report, which is to be presented atthe R.A.F.A. annual conference in Tor- quay on June 1-2, says that 1,646 pensioncases were dealt with during 1956 at national and area headquarters. IN BRIEF The oldest maintenance unit in theR.A.F., No. 2 M.U. (Altrincham), was closed down for economy reasons on March 15. ***** A Royal Air Force contingent is partici-pating in the Franco-British Military Festival being held at the Palais des Sportsin Paris from April 5 to April 14. ***** Of the first 100 new-style aircrew battle-dress manufactured for the R.A.F., half are going to Fighter Command and halfto Bomber Command for evaluation under service conditions. ***** Over 3,000 schoolboys—members of theR.A.F. section of the Combined Cadet Force and school squadrons of the A.T.C.—are attending camps on R.A.F. stations during their Easter holidays.
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