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1959
1959 - 1844.PDF
21 August 1959 35 A study of one of the CCIs, giving a good view of its undercarriage, 550 h.p. Alvis Leonides 128 and the pilot's area of forward visibility This is an odyssey involving (at the aircraft's 95 kt cruisingspeed) about 50 hours' flying and it will be led by a member of the R.A.F. ferry training squadron which converted No. 21 Sqn. toTwin Pioneers. The route lies across France to Marseilles; over the Mediterranean to Algiers; through the Sahara to Kanoin Nigeria; then via Stanleyville and Entebbe to Eastleigh. Over much of its African distance this is the same as that followed byCapt. Keith Sissons and his companions in a Pioneer last year and described in an article for Flight published on September 26,1958. Total U.K.-Kenya route length is 5,420 st. miles. Working with the Army is not an entirely new role for No. 21Sqn., which after its original formation m 1915 went to the Western Front early the following year as an Army co-operation unit. Nor is the acquisition of a new type of aircraft much of anovelty in its history. During the First World War it used at various times B.E.2Cs, Bristol Scouts, R.E.7s, B.E.2Es, Martin-syde G.100 Elephants, B.E.12s, and R.E.8s. Then in its second period of existence (from 1934 until 1947) it went from HawkerHinds to Mosquitoes, with a variety of types in between—Hinds, Blenheims and Venturas. There was another re-formation in 1953,the squadron then operating Canberras in Bomber Command until January 15, 1959. In May this year the fourth and presentchapter of the unit's history opened. Operating Twin Pioneers successfully in Army support in East Africa should not daunt asquadron with such versatile traditions; the task is one which 21 Sqn., by all its precedents, is going to take in its stride. Going . .going . .. gone... . With R.AS.C. dispatchers, No. 21 Sqn. demonstrates a dropping sequence at the School of Land/Air Warfare
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