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1958
1958 - 0628.PDF
644 FLIGHT, 9 May 1958 "Flight" photographs Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, A.O.C-in-C. Flying Training Command, meets competitors tor the Wright Jubilee Trophy—awarded annually for aerobatics by selected instructors from each jet F.T.S. and from Cranwell—at Little Rissington on May 1. He is shaking hands with F/L D. F. Moffatt of the R.A.F. College. In the right-hand picture is the winner, F/L. R. E. Holloway of No. 5 F.T.S., Oakington, in the cockpit of his Vampire T.ll with the trophy. SERVICE AVIATION Showing the Flag FOUR R.A.F. Canberras, two from No.58 Sqn. at Wyton and two from No. 59 Sqn. at Geilenkirchen, flew to BritishHonduras last week to be present during the visit of Princess Margaret. This move wasorganized within 24 hours, the Colonial Office having requested it on April 29 andthe aircraft reaching their destination the following day. The detachment was underthe command of W/C. G. H. Westlake, CO. of No. 58 Sqn., and was supported bya Comet of No. 216 Sqn. Senior Postings FROM next Monday (May 12) A. Cdre.H. J. Maguire, successively Director of Tactical and Air Transport and of Fighterand Theatre Air Forces since December 1956, is to be S.A.S.O. at No. 11 Group.Recently announced also is the appoint- ment of G/C. A. Pyke as Senior TechnicalStaff Officer at H.Q. Coastal Command with the acting rank of air commodore,after commanding the Central Servicing Development Establishment from mid-1956. Farewell and Welcome WITH the A.O.C-in-C. Home Com-" mand, the Vice-Chancellor, the Lord Mayor, the A.O.C. No. 64 Group andA.V-M. W. A. B. Bowen-Buscarlet among its principal guests, the Manchester U.A.S.annual dinner last Friday proved a notable send-off for S/L. J. F. Pinnington, who isrelinquishing command after three years, and an impressive welcome for his suc-cessor, S/L. S. A. Harris. In particular the new C.O. would have noted the cordialrelationship between the university and the R.A.F. As the bursar, Mr. R. A. Rain-ford, put it when responding to the toast of the guests: "I get a great kick out ofmeeting the U.A.S. One can't help being impressed by the youthful enthusiasm ofthe R.A.F." And on the other side, as expressed by A.V-M. H. V. Satterly: "Icount it a privilege as a serving officer to propose a toast to your great university."Air Marshal Sir Douglas Macfadyen said that the primary object of university airsquadrons was to interest young men in, and to form an influential body of opinionfavourable to, the R.A.F.—which still had a future though its front line was beingreduced. He was delighted that the univer- sity squadrons were to continue, thoughthere had been "a few snags" about this and in future they were going to have to be "a bit more particular" about who theytook in. The C-in-C. presented the CheshireTrophy (for the best all-round cadet of the year) to P/O. D. Simmonds and the Camp-bell Trophy (for aerobatics) to P/O. J. Larcombe; he congratulated the squadronon winning the de Havilland Trophy for the second time and for doing more flyingthan any other similar squadron in 64 Group; and he paid partcular tribute to thework of S/L. Pinnington. Similar appreciation of the retiring C.O.was expressed by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor W. Mansfield Cooper. Moscow Attache "]W"EXT month G/C. P. J. Sanders, who-*• ' since mid-1955 has been Air Defence Staff Officer at SHAPE H.Q., is to take upthe appointment of Air Attache in Moscow with the acting rank of air commodore.He was Air Attache in Belgrade from September 1948 to March 1951, and amonghis wartime appointments were the com- mand of Nos. 92 (with whom he won theD.F.C.) and 264 Sqns. Birmingham ModestyD URING the past twelve months theachievements of Birmingham Univer- sity Air Squadron were "modest." Thiswas the assessment modestly offered by its commanding officer, S/L. B. E. Hogan, atthe annual dinner on April 29. But he could report that they were runners-up forthe Hack Trophy; that the airfield con- struction flight had "made great progress";and that despite having been foreclosed upon by the landlords—the University andCastle Bromwich—the squadron had suc- cessfully settled down to flying at Shaw-bury. S/L. Hogan was replying to a toast tothe squadron proposed by Prof. A. P. Thomson, Dean of the Faculty of Medi-cine, who said that whatever the parentage of the B.U.A.S. was when it was born in1941 it had good godparents and had brought distinction to the University bywinning the Hack Trophy in 1955 and being runners-up last year. A.V-M. H. V. Satterly, A.O.C. No. 64Group, spoke of the wider link between the R.A.F. and the universities (and ofoccasional similarities between them in the matter of Treasury stringencies) and saidthat though the R.A.F. might become smaller than it had ever been before, itspower would be very much greater. Its future rested with the universities—especi-ally those leading in science and technology, such as Birmingham. The matter of size was a point which theVice-Chancellor, Dr. R. S. Aitken, took up in replying to the A.O.C.'s toast to the Uni-versity; and in so doing he stressed that it was necessary to guard against being satis-fied with more expansion and to insist on quality. Dr. Aitken, who described theU.A.S. as a "commanding loyalty" for a student among the dissipation of interestswhich surrounded him, presented the Priestley Trophy for the best all-roundcadet to Cdt. Pit. A. T. Baker and the Deakin Aerobatic Trophy (a newly insti-tuted award, donated by Mr. Bernard Deakin) to P/O. B. G. S. Peach. G.M. Award "pOR his skill and courage in directing the-*- rescue of an Army officer in the Welsh mountains last January, and climbing down200ft of vertical cliff with the injured man strapped to his back, Acting F/S. J. R. Leesof R.A.F. Valley has been awarded the George Medal. An experienced climber,he leads the station's mountain rescue team. Naval Air MissionA MISSION of R.N. officers and ratingsis to advise the German Federal Navy on the problems of establishing a Navalair arm. Two officers—Cdr. E. M. Brown (head of the mission) and Cdr. R. C. R.Hallett—are already at the German Naval Air H.Q. at Kiel-Holtenau. U.A.S. Influence WHEN A.V-M. E. J. Corbally, A.O.C.No. 61 Group, spoke at the Bristol U.A.S. dinner on April 25, he said that anysuggestion that absolutely every member of a university squadron should join theR.A.F. was "quite absurd." Nevertheless, they all had their own parts to play inmanning the R.A.F.; they had shown qualities of intelligence and character abovethe average, which meant they would be- come leaders in their careers and as suchcould advise the right type of young men to join the R.A.F. Mr. C. F. Uwins, deputy chairman of theBristol Aeroplane Co. (and, with Prof. W. Beare, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, the otherprincipal guest), presented the Uwins Trophy—awarded to the best cadet of theyear—to P/O. A. I. Sutherland. Jet Provosts of the C.F.S. aerobatic team at Little Rissington in their new livery—white topside and red underside divided by a blue cheat line passing through an unusually small roundel.
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