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506 FLIGHT, 19 April 1957 HERE AND THERE West German Missiles IN Washington last week U.S. Govern-ment officials said that America is planning to provide West Germany with guidedmissiles capable of carrying atomic war- heads. U.S.A.F. Change of Command COMMAND of the U.S. Third AirForce, the senior U.S.A.F. command in Britain, is to be taken over this summer byMaj-Gen. Ernest Moore. He will succeed Maj-Gen. Roscoe C. Wilson, who isreturning to the United States for reassign- ment. General Moore is at present vice-commander and chief of staff of the Military Air Transport Service, with head-quarters in Maryland. U.S. - Saudi Arabia Agreement UNDER an agreement between the UnitedStates and Saudi Arabia, following King Saud's talks with President Eisenhower,the American lease of Dhahran airfield has been extended for five years. In addi-tion the U.S. has agreed to continue the sale of military equipment to Saudi Arabia,to continue training Saudi Arabian air force and naval personnel and to improvecivil aviation facilities at Dhahran. Frozen Mitts ? THE two Canso amphibians which havebeen taking part in the aerial survey of Graham Land (as recorded in Flight forMarch 29, p. 409) have now returned to their base at Oshawa, Ontario. Within sixmonths they have been operating inside both the Arctic and the Antarctic circles,and this is symbolized by a picture on the nose of one of the aircraft of a penguinand a polar bear shaking hands. M.o.S. Appointment THE Ministry of Supply announced last week the appointment of Mr. H. Temple- ton-, B.Sc, F.R.Ae.S., as Director of Civil Aircraft Research and Development with effect from April 29. He is at present CALLING EOKA: Over the mountains and valleys of Cyprus flies this Hunting Percival Pembroke (two Ah is Leonides engines), with four loudhailers filling the doorway. It is inviting members of the Eoka movement to accept the recent Government terms and is one of a number of aircraft recently engaged in this task. Assistant Director (Civil Aircraft). Mr.Templeton was originally with Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft (1935-47) and wassubsequently at the R.A.E.; from 1950 until last year he was head of the Flutterand Vibration Division. "Raid Amerigo Vespucci" THE well-known Italian pilot and journal-ist, Maj. Maner Lualdi, is planning to make an air tour of America in June. Heoriginally intended to fly in the Nardi F.N.333, but is now to use a Fiat G.49powered by a Pratt and Whitney 650 h.p. engine. To be known as "Raid AmerigoVespucci," the flight will cover 35,000 miles and involve crossings of the NorthAtlantic. Government Gratitude IN a letter to Air Chief Marshal SirFrederick Bowhill, who retired at the end of March from the post of chief aero-nautical adviser to the Ministry of Trans- port and Civil Aviation, Mr. HaroldWatkinson, the Minister, has expressed the Government's "warm thanks" for the AirChief Marshal's "unique services to the state." Sir Frederick, who is 76, has beenadviser to the M.T.C.A. since 1946. He was previously A.O.C-in-C. TransportCommand (1943-45) and A.O.C-in-C. Ferry Command (1941-43). CHUCK AND MIKE: Being greeted by the chairman of the Brough Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society— M.G.K.C'Mike") Byrne —is Colonel Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, U.S.A.F. The colonel lectured at Brough on April 3 on his high- speed flying ex- periences and attracted a record audience of 250. He flew from his command in France to Greenham Common in an F-86; thence to Boscombe; and finally to Brough—bv. Anson, F-lOODs for Woodbridge THE 20th Fighter Bomber Wing of the3rd U.S.A.F., at present flying F-84Fs from bases in Suffolk, is to be re-equippedin the near future with F-100D fighter bombers. The Wing headquarters are atWethersfield, Essex, but the first F-100D squadron will be at Woodbridge. TheF-100D has a more powerful J57 engine than the earlier F-lOOs and is equippedwith a Minneapolis Honeywell autopilot and L.A.B.S. bombing system. Egyptian Helicopter Operations A LECTURE entitled Helicopter Opera-tions at Port Said is being given by Lt-Col. J. F. T. Scott in the library of London-derry House, 19 Park Lane, London, W.I, on Thursday, April 25, at 6.15 p.m. Col.Scott commands the Joint Experimental Helicopter Unit, the Army-R.A.F. unitwhich was formed to study the employ- ment of transport helicopters in Armyroles and took part in the Suez operation. His lecture is being given at a joint specialmeeting of the R.Ae.C. and the Helicopter Association of Great Britain. The R.Ae.S. Garden Party THIS year's Royal Aeronautical Societygarden party and flying display is to be held at Wisley aerodrome near Weybridge,Surrey (by courtesy of the Ministry of Supply and Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd.), onSunday, September 15. Sir George Edwards—who takes office as presidentof the Society on May 8—and Lady Edwards will receive members and theirguests. The motif of this year's party is light aircraft and a number of very earlymachines will also be in the programme, full details of which are to be announced. Education with Profit AN action brought by the U.S. Govern-ment against the Boy Scout organization at Gastonia, North Carolina, alleging thatthey re-sold a Liberator sold to them by the Government for "instructional andnon-flying purposes," has been withdrawn after counsel for the Boy Scouts contendedthat no re-sale restrictions were imposed. The Scouts bought the Liberator for $300(£107) in 1947; they sold it to a North Carolina businessman in 1951 for $3,000(£1,000) and after two more re-sales it was finally sold in Mexico—where it is reportedto be flying again—for $50,000 (£17,850).
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