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FLIGHT, 13 September 1957 465 SERVICE AVIATION... Five aerobatic flight lieutenants, members of the Provost team— "The Sparrows"— from the CIS., Little Rissington, which formed part of the R.A.F. representation at Farnborough. director-general of the English SpeakingUnion. He takes up die appointment on October 1 in succession to Mr. FrankDarvall, who has retired. Key Communication KEYS to its telephone boxes have beenissued by the Automobile Association to R.A.F. stations St. Mawgan, Felixstowe,Valley and Thorney Island so that heli- copter pilots on rescue nights who cannotmake contact with base by radio can land by the roadside and ring up. Reunions '"THIS year's reunion of No. 208 Sqn.-•• (formely Naval 8) Old Comrades Asso- ciation will be held at the Swiss Hotel, 53Old Compton Street, London, W.I, on Saturday, October 26, commencing at6.30 p.m. There will be a running buffet and past and present members should applyfor tickets—price 7s 6d—to the hon. secre- tary, Mr. R. W. Booker, 28 Greet Road,Lancing, Sussex, as soon as possible. THE tenth No. 2 A.D.U. reunion dinnerAwill be held at the R.A.F. Reserves Club, 14 South Street (off Park Lane),London, W.I, on Saturday, November 2, at 6.30 for 7 p.m. Members are invited tobring lady guests; the cost is one guinea per head; and acceptances should be sentto Humphrey Wynn, Flat B. Oxford Court, Anlaby Road, Teddington, Middx. Battle of Britain Font TOURING the Battle of Britain service of••-' remembrance being held in the memorial chapel at Biggin Hill next Sundaymorning the Bishop of Rochester, the Rt. Rev. C. M. Chavasse, will receive fromMarshal of the R.A.F. Lord Tedder and dedicate for use a baptismal font which hasbeen presented by the R.A.F.A. (of which Lord Tedder is president) as a memorial tothose who fell in the battle. The font has been designed by the stationpadre at Biggin Hill, the Rev. Vivian Symons, and has been cast in aluminiumto symbolize the principal material from which aircraft are made. It takes the form A pattern of power on the tyre-marked run- way at Tangmere, these 27 Javelins of Nos. 23, 46 and 141 Squadrons are photographed (from another Javelin, whose shadow can be seen) when about to take off for the S.B.A.C. display at Farnborough last week of a shallow bowl supported by three "fins,"in the sectors of which the station crest— three unsheathed cross-hilt swords, with agilded chain circlet surrounding each blade —is reproduced. There is to be no inscrip-tion on the font or swords, but a plaque placed nearby will commemorate the gift.Local craftsmen have made the font, the chain circlets were forged in the stationworkshops, and the sword blades have actu- ally been tempered from those of threeswords used in the Crusades. These were donated by the commanding officer ofBiggin Hill, W/C. P. D. Thompson. IN BRIEF The Secretary of State for Air and mem-bers of the Air Council gave a dinner at the R.A.F. Club on September 4 in honourof Air Chief Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw- Chapman, on the occasion of his retirementfrom the Air Council and from the R.A.F. R.A.F. Finningley, near Doncaster, is toopen as a Vulcan bomber station next month. ***** A total of 450 men and women volun-teered for spare-time duty in the R.O.C. during the last quarter. ***** Belgian Air Force technicians have sinceAugust 14 been taking a six-week instruc- tional course on Avro CF-lOOs at theR.C.A.F.'s No. 3 Fighter Wing, Zwei- brucken, Germany. ***** A mobile mass radiography unit fromthe R.A.F. Hospital at Wegberg recently completed a 30,000-mile tour of isolatedcamps, during which some 2,000 service- men, their wives and children and attachedcivilians were X-rayed. Following complaints about night flyingby jet aircraft over Edinburgh and Dun- fermline, the station commander at R.A.F.Turnhouse, W/C. R. C. Haine, has said that this will be "considerably reduced"after a NATO defence exercise at the end of this month.
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