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1958
1958-1- - 0239.PDF
s FLIGHT, 15 August 1958 243 SERVICE AVIATION . . . F.A.A. at Farnborough CJEVEN Sea Hawks from No. 800 Sqn.5 and four Scimitars from No. 803 are putting on formation aerobatic displays atFarnborough next month as the Royal Navy's contribution to the S.B.A.C. show.No. 800 Squadron was until last month embarked in H.M.S. Ark Royal in theMediterranean: it started to work up for Farnborough at its shore base, R.N.A.S.Brawdy, on July 21. The aerobatic routine No. 800 hasworked out consists of five manceuvres—a loop in line-abreast formation (five aircraftin line and two in line astern), changing to a vie; a roll in swan pattern; another loop,changing from swan to vie; a roll, moving from vie to double vie; and a third loop androll, followed by a bomb-burst with the aircraft streaming blue smoke. This spec-tacular routine is rounded-off by a nine- plane formation landing, in which the tworeserve Sea Hawks take part. No. 800 is the oldest F.A.A. squadron,having been formed in 1933 in H.M.S. Courageous. During the war it operatedoff Norway, in the Mediterranean, against the Tirpitz, and in the Far East.The squadron's present CO. is a 38- year-old New Zealander, Lt-Cdr. Norman(Peter) Perrett: he has been in command since October last year and will be leadingthe formation at Farnborough. No. 2 is the Senior Pilot and Executive Officer,Lt-Cdr. A. A. Fyfe; No. 3 is Lt. Brian Toomey (Air Warfare Instructor); and theother pilots are Lt. D. Pentreath, S/Lt. R. W. D. Westlake and Lts. R. Dimmockand P. R. Miller, with Lt. J. D. H. Wey- man and S/Lt. C. R. Cresswell in reserve. No. 803 Sqn., which was also formed in1933, was re-equipped with Scimitars in June and has since been working up atLossiemouth. The squadron's wartime achievementsincluded the shooting down of the first enemy aircraft—a Do 18—destroyed dur-ing the war, by one of the squadron's Skuas. No. 803 Sqn.'s present C.O. and leaderof the Farnborough formation is Cdr. J. D. Russell. The senior pilot is Lt-Cdr. G. R.Higgs and Nos. 3 and 4 in the team are Lts. E. R. Anson and P. J. Barber. Thereserve pilots are Lts. J. W. Beard and M. V. Maina. Sea Hawk 6s of No. 800 Sqn. practising their formation aerobatic routine for Farnborough. In the picture above they are seen over St. David's airfield. These photographs, and those on page 219, are the work of "Flight" photographer Ian Macdonald. "Flight" photographs
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