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1957
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678 FLIGHT, 17 May 1957 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News E.T.P.S. Commandant '"THE traditional "titfer" worn by the•*• Commandant of the Empire Test Pilots' School on semi-official occasions washanded over at a dining-in night last week to the new Commandant, G/C. R. E.Burns. Many friends from Service, indus- try and the Ministries had gathered to wel-come him and to dine-out G/C. S. Wroath, the retiring Commandant. Speakers re-called "Sammy" Wroath's long history of flight testing since 1938, when he wasseconded from No. 1 Sqn. to Martlesham Heath; his work had been instrumental inthe development of the art of test flying and his name was a passport to any flight testcentre abroad. Sir Ralph Sorley, paying tribute to G/C.Wroath, said of him that he had always looked into the future and had done muchfor the furtherance of test flying. The new Commandant presented a desk-set to his illustrious predecessor, who said modestly in reply that he felt he "had madesome contribution." The test pilot's day was not past and training for test flying wasstill required. Senior Appointments AWARTIME commanding officer ofNo. 43 Sqn. ("The Fighting Cocks"), A.V-M. C. G. Lott, has been appointedCommandant of the School of Land/Air Warfare at Old Sarum. For the past twoyears he has been A.C.S. (Air Defence) at SHAPE and before that was in FighterCommand for five years, first at H.Q. and then as Caledonian Sector Commander. A.V-M. Lott joined the R.A.F. as an air-craft apprentice in 1922. He became a sergeant pilot in 1928, was commissionedin 1933 and took command of No. 43 Sqn. soon after the war started, leading its Th's Spitfire 9, freshly painted in its original colours, has been presented by No. 14 Sqn. at Oldenburg to No. 124 Wing as a Wing trophy and was "on parade" for the farewell ceremony to Oldenburg's retiring commander, G/C. C. C. Stapleton. It was obtained by the squadron from the scrapheap at Eindhoven, where it is believed to have been left by No. 16 Sqn. (now based at Celle) at the end of the war. Hurricanes on many patrols over Dunkirkand Occupied France. He was awarded the D.S.O. and D.F.C. for these operations andwas wounded—losing an eye—just before the Battle of Britain. Until 1944 he servedwith Fighter Command and then joined the R.A.F. Delegation in Washington. Whenthe R.A.F. Flying College was formed in 1950 he became its first Chief Instructor. The appointment has also been an-nounced of A. Cdre. E. J. Corbally as A.O.C. No. 61 Group, Home Command,with the acting rank of air vice-marshal. He has been Commandant of the AircrewSelection Centre, Hornchurch, for four years after being Director of Training atH.Q. Allied Air Forces Central Europe. A.V-M. Corbally entered Cranwell in1927 and after graduation spent 18 months in No. 1 (Fighter) Sqn. Early in the warhe was a member of the Organization staff at H.Q. Bomber Command, then in Decem-ber 1941 took command of No. 78 Sqn., flying Whitleys and Halifaxes. From May1942 to July 1943 he commanded the bomber station at Pocklington. He thenspent four months as Deputy Director of Bomber Operations at Air Ministry, andserved for nearly two years on the Anglo- American Joint Operational Planning Com-mittee which co-ordinated bombing plans. Operation Pied PiperW HEN the commander of Fort Telanokin Central Malaya sent out an urgent message recently for feline assistance tokeep down rats, R.A.F. Kuala Lumpur conscripted two large Malayan cats to bedropped by parachute, with supplies for the fort, from a Valetta of the Air SupplyForce. Unfortunately they both went A.W.O.L. during the night, but Capt. J. E.Bosworth, ground liaison officer in the R.A.F. operations room, had two replace-ments to spare. These were packed in a padded case drilled with air-holes, providedwith a tasty in-flight meal of fish, and safely parachuted into Fort Telanok, wherethey immediately became operational. IN BRIEF At the invitation of the Italian Air Force,Air Chief Marshal Sir Dermot Boyle, the C.A.S., flew to Rome (by Comet 2 of No. 216 Sqn.) on May 8 for a visit to Italy. ***** Two Swift F.R.5s and two CanberraP.R.7s will represent 2nd T.A.F. in the second annual reconnaissance competitionorganized by Allied Air Forces Central Europe, next week at R.A.F. Laarbruch. During his recent visit to R.A.F. Honington, General K. Hayashi, chairman of the Japanese Joint Staff Council, inspected a parade in his honour (below) and met the crew of a Shackleton (right). He also examined Canberra, Valiant, Vulcan and Comet aircraft and after- wards watched them give a flying display.
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