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1957
1957 - 0776.PDF
782 FLIGHT, 7 June 1957 It! Performing at Paris were the superb aerobatic team of 111 Sqn., led by their CO. S/L. Roger L. Topp (centre of group). Their black- painted Hunter 6s are powered by late-series Rolls-Royce Avons, like those fitted to the Vickers Supermarine Scimitar (right). The Scimitar's hinged nose, here shown opened for access, will house powerful airborne radar. The tail (extreme right) belongs to a Mirage. SERVICE AVIATION . . . Royal Birthday Fly-pastO N the official birthday of the Queen—Thursday next, June 13—Her Majesty will watch from the balcony ofBuckingham Palace a fly-past by nine Valiants flying in three formations atl,OOOft. Leaders will be W/C. A. H. C. Boxer (O.C. No. 7 Sqn., Honington), W/C.R. E. Havercroft (O.C. No. 543, Wyton) and W/C. F. C. D. Wright (O.C. No. 148,Marham). The fly-past will be at 1300 hr, or at 1700 hr should the Trooping of theColour ceremony be postponed owing to bad weather. The R.A.F.A. Conference TTHE annual conference of the Royal Air-•- Forces Association was held last week- end at Torquay, with Marshal of theRoyal Air Force Lord Tedder as chairman. From the agenda it was obvious that finance is the association's greatestimmediate problem. The problem is in two parts: Firstly, some degree ofreorganization will be necessary in order to effect important economies in admini-strative expenditure; secondly, arrange- ments will have to be made for the wisestallocation of money from the welfare fund, which has benefited from the success ofWings Day appeal and cinema collections. In his speech at the conference, LordTedder dismissed as "pure fantasy" the idea that the R.A.F. would soon become aservice in which "we are all going to sit in dug-outs and push buttons." There weregoing to be military aeroplanes for as far ahead as we could see. He expressed this view in an endeavourto reassure delegates who had unanimously supported a resolution instructing theAssociation's national council to examine the employment services of the organiza-tion "to ensure that the maximum assis- tance be given to all ex-R.A.F. and W.R.A.F. personnel in the event ofredundancy becoming a national problem." A report of the conference will appearin a forthcoming issue of Flight. Valiant Pilot ClearedA T a court-martial at R.A.F. station• Wyton last week, S/L. K. H. Letford, D.S.O. and Bar, D.F.C. and Bar, wascleared of a charge of negligence in causing damage to a Valiant. It was stated inevidence that, whilst taxying, the aircraft damaged a wing-tip against an extensibleservicing ladder which swung round as a result of the engine noise. The courtagreed that there was no case to answer. The Air Ministry has announced thatsentence of 12 months' imprisonment and cashiering, passed by a Cyprus court-martial on a Canberra captain found guilty of damaging his aircraft to avoid carryingout a mission during the Suez operations, has been reduced to one of six months'imprisonment and cashiering. Another fine impression of the royal visit to the Home Fleet: looking across Gannets ranged on the flight deck of H.M.S. "Albion," it shows the royal yacht "Britannia on the port quarter and H.M.S. "Ocean" astern. Both carriers took part in last year's Suez operation.
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