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1959 - 0465.PDF
236 The first Canadair 540 (CL-66) for the R.C.A.F. being rolled out from the company's Montreal plant prior to its successful initial flight on February 2. The aircraft, which bears the markings of Air Transport Command (to which ten are being delivered), is a developed Convair 440 powered by two Napier Eland 6 turboprops SERVICE AVIATION • : r Royal Air Forces and Naval Flying News Winter Cruise ~ AN Avro Vulcan of Bomber Command- left R.A.F. Finningley last Tuesday for Bermuda to participate in ceremoniesmarking the 350th anniversary of British colonization. This is the first time aVulcan has been there. The aircraft, from No. 101 Sqn., is captained by S/L. D. T.Skeen. It has as co-pilot A.V-M. J. G. Davies, Bomber Command S.A.S.O., whois to lecture in the U.S. and Canada. The Vulcan is due to return to Finningley fromToronto next Thursday. Flying with the DutchmenS INCE Tuesday this week No. 800 Sqn.,one of the two Fleet Air Arm squadrons which gave displays at lastyear's Farnborough show, has been on a visit to Holland which is to last untilFebruary 25. Equipped with Sea Hawks and commanded by Lt-Cdr. A. A. Fyfe,the squadron is being accommodated at the R.N.N. air station at Valkenburg andduring its visit will exercise NATO com- mon operating doctrines with the RoyalNetherlands Navy, which has two Sea Hawk squadrons. Artistic Esteem A PORTRAIT of Air Marshal Sir•**- Richard Atcherley is to be unveiled and presented to him by the Chief of theAir Staff, Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir Dermot Boyle, at Flying Training Com- mand headquarters next Wednesday. Thepainting, which is the work of Mr. Herbert Holt, was commissioned by the officers andstudents of F.T.C. as a mark of esteem for their Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief. It is to hang in the Mess at Shinfield Park until Sir Richard's retirement fromthe Service on March 1, when it will be moved to a permanent home in the Hallof Fame at Cranwell, where he was once a cadet and instructor and in 1946 becamethe College's first post-war Commandant. Punctual ExampleD URING his recent overseas tour theC.A.S. set a splendid example of punctuality. Sir Dermot was only oncelate, when torrential rain at Gibraltar caused extensive flooding, which necessi-tated burning-off fuel before landing, because only 1,500 yd of runway was avail-able. On all other occasions on the 22,000- mile tour (some photographs from whichare published on page 208) the Canberra B.6 the C.A.S. flew landed within 50 secof pre-planned time. Back to Henlow WHEN A. Cdre. N. C. S. Rutter takesover next Monday as A.O.C. and Commandant of the R.A.F. TechnicalCollege, Henlow, he will become the first of the college's former engineering studentsto have returned there in command. He took a course at Henlow in 1935, after A.V-M. M. H. Dwyer (right), who is on a liaison visit to the United States after taking last year's I.D.C. course, making a tour of the Thor production line at the Santa Monica (Cal) division of Douglas Aircraft Co. On his right is Mr. H. M. Thomas, chief engineer of the Thor project having served as a bomber pilot withsquadrons at home and in India. During the war he was in the Far East and hispost-war appointments have included that of Senior R.A.F. Officer (for three-and-a-half years) at Cape Canaveral, the U.S.A.F. missile test centre. In 1958 he took theI.D.C. course. No. 194 Sqn. Reunion T^HIS year's ninth reunion dinner of-*• No. 194 Sqn. (India - Burma - Malaya) will be held at the Royal HorticulturalNew Hall, Elverton Street, Victoria, Lon- don, on Saturday, March 14, at 6.30 for7.30 p.m. The guest of honour will be Vera Lynn and tickets (18s 6d) can beobtained from the hon. secretary, Douglas Williams, 56 Mottingham Lane, Lee,London, S.E.12 (tel. Lee 1025). Changes at Biggin "DIGGIN HILL is receiving new tenants•^* following the move of London Univer- sity Air Squadron to White Waltham lastweek. Recently the Surrey Flying Club migrated there from Croydon (see Sportand Business, page 225), and later this year the Ground Officers Selection Centre isbeing transferred from R.A.F. Uxbridge. Early in 1960 two more R.A.F. units areexpected to move to Biggin, from Horn- church—the Aircrew Selection Centre andthe Personnel Selection Training School. Aircraft on Order CJOME information on new aircraft for*** the R.A.F. and Royal Navy was given by the Minister of Supply in Parliamentaryanswers last week. He said that deliveries of the twenty Britannias for TransportCommand were expected to start in the next two or three months and to be com-pleted in 1960; orders had been placed for the Bristol 192B [sic] and Westland Wessexhelicopters for the R.A.F. and Royal Navy respectively. (The Minister's reference tothe 192B is curious. Bristol Aircraft say there is no such machine. PresumablyMr. Jones meant the 192.) IN BRIEF ~ W/C. W. J. Ryan, who was deputy secre-tary of the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund from 1945 to 1957, died recently at the age of 75.***** Miss J. Elise Gordon, editor of our at.;'>dated journal Nursing Mirror, left Lyneh m on February 3 by Comet of No. 216 Sqn. ona trip to the Middle and Far East to study fie casualty evacuation service to the U.K.
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