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Aviation History
1957
1957 - 0868.PDF
874 FLIGHT The Shackleton M.R.3 with which Coastal Com- mand is to be re- equipped. This actual aircraft belongs to the South African Air Force, whose Shackleton crews have been training in the United Kingdom. "Flight" photograph COASTAL COMMAND ... Now expected—the first should be in service in August—is theShackleton M.R.3. As will be seen from the illustration, it differs from the M.R.2 in having a nosewheel. It also has a better internaleconomy and is known to have a lower noise-level—from the crew's point of view, a good feature in any long-range aircraft. The South African Air Force has sent three complete aircrewsto be trained by the R.A.F. in Coastal ways. At present they are stationed at St. Mawgan in Cornwall, where their first Shackleton 3has been delivered to them. For such arduous and exacting work as is required of Coastalcrews it is obvious that training has to be at a continually high level. At die Maritime Operational Training Unit, mentionedearlier, there is an intake of aircrew members, either newly quali- fied in tiieir job or transferred from other commands, who aretrained to apply their specialist knowledge to the problems of submarine detection and search and rescue. As part of squadrontraining each unit attends the Joint Anti-submarine School at Londonderry at least once every 18 months and while therereceives intensive training in conjunction with A/S ships. As with the other R.A.F. Commands—in fact, with the Servicesin general—it is difficult to foretell the future of Coastal Com- mand. Some developments in nuclear warfare could easily makeit the most important of our commands. In "limited" or conven- tional warfare our very livelihood still depends on its efficiency. J.i. "Flight" photograph (Centre picture) A 68ft Power Boat rescue/tar- get-towing launch of No. 1101 Marine Craft Unit arrives at speed at the entrance to Fowey Har- bour. It is powered by three 500 h.p. Napier Sea Lion engines—age- ing but still efficient. Maritime reconnaissance targets: left, as it often used to be—with the. whole submarine sur- faced. Right, as it is now, at snort-and-peri- scope depth. In a future war submarines are likely to remain submerged, for long periods.
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