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164 FLIGHT, 29 January 1 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Forces and Naval Flying News ~ Future PerspectiveH AVING been CAS in the 1950s,Marshal of the RAF Sir Dermot Boyle has taken a look into the 1960s in an articlein the current issue of Air Power. He says that Bluestreak is now in an advanced stageof development and due to enter service in the mid-sixties as a complementary weaponto the V-bombers, and comments that "there would clearly be advantages" if thedeterrent could continue to be composed of manned aircraft and ballistic missiles.Characteristics invaluable in "a new manned vehicle" would be VTOL capacityand long endurance; but it would not necessarily have to fly at great speed.Referring to the Lightning, Sir Dermot says that its future equipment will include acollision course weapon. The TSR.2, for a flying radius of action of 1,000 miles, willrequire only 1,000yd of runway, and for a 600-mile radius will get off the groundwithin 600yd. It is to have all the latest radar aids and its speed "will be in theregion of M2." Malta-based Reconnaissance WHEN Sir Dermot Boyle visited Maltaduring one of his flying tours as CAS, a Canberra of No 39 Sqn recorded hisarrival photographically and 22min after his touch-down Sir Dermot received a printfrom the squadron commander, Wg Cdr R. L. Wade. This example of No 39Squadron's work was given recently by the headquarters of Allied Forces SouthernEurope, in which the squadron is the only British unit. Its role is described as "pre-strike reconnaissance in support of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe'snuclear retaliation to aggression," and it is under the direct operational control of the Sixth Allied Tactical Air Force, a subordin-ate command of Allied Air Forces Southern Europe. The squadron's aircraft carry a fanof six F.52 36-inch focal length cameras; sorties are made at a few minutes' noticeto destinations as far from Malta as Kenya and the United Kingdom. . -•-,.• •:•••,. Technical Training PostO N Monday this week Air Cdre B. A.Chacksfield took up a new appoint- ment as Senior Air Staff Officer at Tech-nical Training Command, with the acting rank of air vice-marshal. His last post,before taking the 1959 course at the Im- perial Defence College, was that of Directorof Guided Weapons at the Ministry of Supply. An ex-apprentice, AVM Chacks-field was mentioned in despatches four times during the war and in 1945 made anOBE. He is also AFRAeS. - ,. Forty Years Up A PARTY in a Hastings aircraft aboveCyprus on Monday will mark for No 70 Sqn forty years' continuous opera-tions in the Middle East. The squadron, which is now commanded by Wg CdrP. Ainley, was re-formed at Heliopolis, near Cairo, on February 1, 1920, withbomber aircraft, having been a fighter unit on the Western Front in the First WorldWar. Among its early achievements was participation by its Victorias from Decem-ber 1928 to February 1929 in the first air- lift in the history of aviation, when nearly600 people were evacuated from Kabul during inter-tribal disorders in Afghanis-tan. During the Second World War the squadron was engaged on bombing opera-tions with Wellingtons, and subsequently Liberators, in the Middle East and Italiantheatres. It reverted to the transport role A Meteor PR.10 of No 81 Sqn, which recently completed its 10,000th reconnaissance :ntj photographic operation in the Far East f hi; page, last week), in flight over Mai iya in 1948, playing a major part in post-warMiddle East operations. The squad on received a standard in 1955. Ex-Apprentice STSO FORMERLY Senior Technical S.afi-T Officer at No 3 Group, Bomber Com- mand, Gp Capt J. C. Pope has beenappointed Senior Technical Staff Officer at Flying Training Command. He joinedthe RAF in 1928 as an apprentice and v on a cadetship to Cranwell, from which hewas commissioned four years later. After flying in India with Nos 27 and 39 Sqnshe took a specialist engineering course i n1937 and in 1940 transferred to the tech- nical branch. One of his wartime appoint-ments was that of Senior Technical Staff Officer at Middle East headquarters. Hewas made a CBE last year. IN BRIEF A Sea Vixen piloted by Lt Cdr M. H. j.Petrie, CO of No 892 Sqn, flew from Yeovil- ton to Malta in 2\ hr on January 21. * * * No XV Sqn, whose Victors participated irlast year's "Golden Flight" Air Day at Toronto have been presented with a totem pole by thei:Canadian hosts. Carved by Chief Mathias Joe of the Capilano tribe of Red Indians, it hascome to Cottesmore as a gift from the RCAr base at Sea Island, Vancouver. * * * Aircraft of the RAF, FAA, Indian Fleet Ai:Arm, IAF, Pakistan Air Force and Roya Ceylon Air Force are to have reconnaissancestrike, AS and transport roles in Jet 60, th: annual Commonwealth maritime exercise periodin the Far East, which begins next Mondai (February 1) and continues until February 25 * * * The 38 Group Old Comrades Association14th annual general meeting and reunios dinner is being held at the Victoria Hou!Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1, or March 12, at 6.30 p.m. Tickets (£1 each) ai>obtainable from the hon secretary, Mrs L. ('. Rendall, Hotel Metropole, Brighton, Sussex * * * It was stated by Admiral Sir Ralph Edwards,chairman of a Navy League conference in Lon- don recently, that designs for another Britishaircraft carrier "are already on the drawing board." The League included the conversionof a second Commando carrier, which it claimed could be available next year, in a list of "minimum requirements" for Naval strength. * * * Three Grumman Avengers used by tkRNZAF for post-war experiments in aerii topdressing are being sold by the NZ Govern-ment Stores Board. At the end of the trial; the Avengers were returned to No 42 Sqn tOhakea for target-towing duties for the Ann; and Navy. They were "retired" from the A:Force in June last year, after more than lr years' service. No 39 Sqn, the only British unit assigned to Allied Forces Southern Europe (see item above), at work: Fit Us P. Cockman (left) and P. Stoke enter their Canberra PR3 for a sortie; Wg Cdr R. L Wade, the squadron commander, in his office; and Fit Lt A. Chalker, ile the pnoti interpretation section, with Fit Sgt R. Worthing
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