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1957
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iFLIGHT, 2 August 1957 173 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News R.A.F. REDUNDANCY: IMPLICATIONS OF THE DEFENCE CUTS WHEN details were given last weekof the run-down in the Services out-lined by the Defence White Paper last April, the Air Ministry announced that"as far as could be foreseen" the number of R.A.F. officers and N.C.O.s who wouldbecome redundant was unlikely to exceed 700 and 1,000 respectively. In a signaladdressed to all ranks of the R.A.F. at home and abroad the Air Member for Personnel,Air Marshal Sir John R. Whitley, said: — "I can now re-affirm that the run-downwill mainly be achieved by the normal out- flow of officers and airmen coming to theend of their current engagements of all Air Chief Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman, appointed Director of Resettlement. kindly The problem of redundancy willtherefore be a relatively small one. Overall we need a substantial increase in regularrecruitment." Sir John added that there were surpluses or promotion blockages insome ranks, branches and trades, and it would be necessary to clear these and ensurethat fresh ones did not arise. Officers and other ranks within fields inwhich redundancies arise are invited to apply for premature release or discharge.Whilst the Air Ministry will retain the right to accept or reject applications, andif necessary to retire or discharge com- pulsorily some who have not applied, it isintended so far as practicable to select for redundancy those who wish to go. Release Categories "pURTHER signals from Air Ministry•*- have set out methods by which officers and other ranks may apply for prematuretermination of service under the Govern- ment's compensation scheme. That relat-ing to officers says that any of those covered by it who wish to leave the R.A.F. beforeOctober 1 next year should apply direct to Air Ministry (A.R.3) without delay and inany case by September 30 next. They should add any reason for requiring releaseurgently or by a particular date. The following list details categories ofofficers who may apply to be released before October 1, 1958: — General Duties Branch: Group captains ofseniority January 1, 1950, or earlier; group captains born in 1910 or earlier; wing com-manders born in 1914 or earlier; squadron leaders of seniority January 1, 1950, or earlier;squadron leaders born in 1918 or earlier; flight lieutenants or below in the General List (per- manent commissions) who, if pilots, were bornin 1918 or earlier and, if navigators, in 1916 or earlier; flight lieutenants and below in the flightengineer category without restriction on age or seniority. G.D. Branch (Ground Section): Wing com-manders fighter control and aircraft control of seniority January 1, 1949, or earlier; wing com-manders fighter control and aircraft control born in 1909 or earlier; squadron leaders fightercontrol and aircraft control of seniority July 1, 1947, or earlier; squadron leaders aircraft con-trol only, born in 1910 or earlier. Technical Branch: Group captains of seniorityJanuary 1, 1950, or earlier; wing commanders born in 1906 or earlier; flight lieutenants andbelow in the engineer classification who were born in 1912 or earlier and who hold perma-nent commissions; squadron leaders and below in the engineer classification who are servingon extended service commissions without re- striction on age or seniority. Equipment Branch: Group captains born in1905 or earlier; wing commanders born in 1909 or earlier; wing commanders of seniorityJuly 1, 1948, or earlier; flight lieutenants and below with permanent commissions and withseniority July 1, 1947, or earlier; flight lieu- tenants and below with permanent commissionsand born in 1912 or earlier; officers serving on extended service commissions without restric-tion on rank, age and seniority. Secretarial Branch: Group captains ofseniority July 1, 1948, or earlier; group cap- tains born in 1904 or earlier; wing commandersborn in 1909 or earlier; squadron leaders of seniority July 1, 1947, or earlier; squadronleaders born in 1910 or earlier; flight lieutenants and below with permanent commissions andwith seniority of July 1, 1947, or earlier; flight lieutenants and below with permanent commis-sions and born in 1912 or earlier; officers serv- ing on extended service commissions withoutrestriction on rank, age or seniority. R.A.F. Regiment: Group captains born in1909 or earlier; wing commanders of seniority July 1, 1949, or earlier; wing commanders bornin 1911 or earlier; squadron leaders born in 1917 or earlier; flight lieutenants and belowwith permanent commissions and with seniority July 1, 1948, or earlier; flight lieutenants andbelow with permanent commissions and born in 1917 or earlier. Applications for retirement may be madeby air commodores in any of the above branches and these will be dealt with indi-vidually by the Air Secretary, Air Marshal D. H. F. Barnett. The signal sent by Air Ministry to otherranks is in similar terms. Those who wish to leave the Service by October 1, 1958,should apply direct to the A.O.C., R.A.F. Record Office (2 Division), Gloucester. Categories of airmen who may apply noware as follows: — Warrant officers, flight sergeants and ser-geants born in 1907 or earlier in Trade Groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 (these trades, respec-tively, are aircraft engineering; radio engineer- ing; armament engineering; electrical andinstrument engineering; general engineering; mechanical transport; marine craft and air traf-fic control and fire services). Skilled tradesmen only of the rank of war-rant officer born in 1912 or earlier; flight ser- geants born in 1915 or earlier; and sergeantsbom in 1919 or earlier, all with at least 17 years' pensionable service in Trade Groups 10and 22 (General Service and R.A.F. Regiment respectively). Warrant officers born in 1907 or earlier inTrade Groups 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19 and 20 (Ground Signalling; Radar Operating; Photo-graphy; Accounting and Secretarial; Supply; Catering and Police, respectively). Warrant officers and flight sergeants bom m1907 or earlier in Trade Group 13 (Safety and Surface). Compensatory Payments T~\ETAILS of compensatory payments to*-* officers and other ranks who suffer a loss of entitlement to pensions through pre-mature retirement under the defence cuts were published as a White Paper* lastweek. These apply to all three Services, but not to personnel recruited outside theU.K. on special conditions of service or to the women's Services, which are notaffected by the arrangements for premature retirement. *Cmd. 231, price Is 6d, H.M.S.O. Director of Resettlement ""THE Minister of Labour and National-*• Service, Mr. Iain Macleod, last week gave details of the Regular Forces Resettle-ment Service being set up to co-ordinate all the agencies concerned with resettlingex-Regular Service personnel in civilian occupations. There will be an advisoryboard under the chairmanship of Sir Frederic Hooper (managing director ofSchweppes, Ltd., and from 1945 to 1946 Director of Business Training at theMinistry of Labour); and Air Chief Mar- shal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman has beenappointed Director of Resettlement. Sir Ronald, at present V.C.A.S., will take uphis new appointment during September. Command AppointmentH AVING last week handed over com-mand of the Royal Pakistan Air Force, A.V-M. A. W. B. McDonald, C.B., A.F.C.,has now been appointed A.O.C-in-C. Tech- nical Training Command with effect fromnext January and with the acting rank of A.V-M. A. W. B. McDonald. air marshal. He will succeed Air MarshalSir George R. Beamish, who is retiring. A.V-M. McDonald became C-in-C. ofthe R.P.A.F.—now commanded by A.V-M. Asghar Khan—in May 1955, having pre-viously been Director-General of Manning at Air Ministry from September 1952 andbefore that A.O.C. at Boscombe Down. In the 1930s he was responsible for the flyingside of research at Biggin Hill into the tech- nique of radar interception, culminating inthe first such interception over this country in November, 1937, when he led a forma-tion of three Gauntlets on to a Dutch air- liner over the Thames Estuary. A.V-M.McDonald was awarded the A.F.C. in January 1938.
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