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FLIGHT, 4 March 1960 317 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Forces and Naval Flying News Change at Spitalgate HAVING commanded RAF Spitalgatesince September of last year, Gp Off Janet Bannatyne has now become WRAFAdministrative Officer at Technical Train- ing Command headquarters. She is beingsucceeded at Spitalgate (from May 16) by Gp Off Felicity Hill, who has been CO atRAF Hawkinge since April last year. Visitors from Peru ' '"THE Peruvian Ambassador to Spain, DrA Manuel Cisneros,went to Little Rissing- ton last Friday to see something of RoyalAir Force activities at the Central Flying School. The party, which included GeneralEnrique Ciriani, head of the president's military household, and the naval and airattaches, watched a flying display by Hunters, Jet Provosts and various types ofWestland helicopter. RAAF Training Changes TTNDER changes being made "in the*^ interests of economy and efficiency," RAAF training units doing similar tasksare being grouped together on permanent stations and two bases are being closed.One of these is Rathmines, NSW, where the Officers' Training School has beensituated. The school and its allied acti- vities are being transferred to Point Cook,and other units moved to the School of Technical Training at Wagga. Movingfrom Point Cook, the RAAF Staff College is going to Canberra, where it will be near to the Department of Air. The other basebeing closed is Ballarat, Victoria, where the School of Radio was situated. Merciful Detour A COMET of No 216 Sqn which left-^-Lyneham on February 23 on a -scheduled flight to Aden via El Adem andNairobi, was making a diversion of over 5,000 miles to bring a Naval polio victimfrom Cape Town. The Comet, which had aboard Julian Amery, Under-SecretaryColonial Office, and the new Supreme Commander Middle East, General SirA. D. Ward, was flying from Nairobi to Cape Town and back to Nairobi with thesailor, Ord. Art. Bernard Kelly, before resuming the schedule and then returningto the UK, being due back at Lyneham last Sunday. Uxbridge Honour ONE of the oldest and most famous RAFstations, Uxbridge, is to receive the Freedom of the Borough of Uxbridge onMarch 19. This honour marks an associa- tion between borough and station whichdates from August 1919, when the RAF Depot was established soon after thedisbandment of the RFC Armament and Gunnery School which had been therefor two years previously; and between the wars many thousands of young menreceived basic training at the station, this role inspiring its motto "JuventutemFormamis" ("We form the young"). The Shackleton MR3s of No 206 Sqn at RAF St Mawgan, which was visited last Friday by four senior officers of the Spanish Air Force, including the chief of its ASR services Queen's colour for the RAF in the UnitedKingdom is housed at Uxbridge and during the ceremony marking the grantingof freedom will be paraded on the station parade ground. In Brief The Minister of Defence, Harold Watkinson,flew out to HMS Victorious in the Channel on February 22 by RN helicopter from Portsmouthfor a day's visit. HMS Eagle is to be modernized at a costof £20m. This was stated by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Carrington, during avisit to Plymouth last week. Wg Cdr A. R. Poole has been appointed CO-designate of No 1 (County of Hertford) MHQ Unit, RAuxAF, one of three maritime head-quarters units whose formation was announced last November. In October last year 1,002 youths begantraining for regular careers in the RAF, and in February this year that record figure wasexceeded when 1,057 candidates qualified for training. A total of £10,013 has been received by theRAF Benevolent Fund as a result of activities organized by RAFA branches in connectionwith Battle of Britain Week last year. The comparable 1958 figure was £11,987. The Boyd Trophy, awarded annually for theyear's finest feat of Naval aviation, was being presented to No 781 Communications Sqn atRNAS Lee-on-Solent last Wednesday (March 2) by the Flag Officer Air (Home), Vice-AdmiralD. E. Holland-Martin. A history of RAF Scampton is being com-piled and Sqn Ldr T. Stafford writes: "We would be most grateful if any of your readerswill supply copies of photographs taken at Scampton in past years. We would be happyto receive any other material—copies of official programmes, for example. Any negatives orprints loaned would be carefully handled and returned promptly." The address of the stationis Royal Air Force, Scampton, Lincoln. The annual reunion of Coastal Commandofficers is being held in the officers' mess at the command headquarters, RAF Northwood, onMay 7 at 6 p.m. Buffet supper will be served and dress is lounge suits. All officers who haveserved in Coastal Command since September 3, 1939, are eligible to attend; particulars andtickets (15s each) may be obtained from the hon sec, Wg Off S. P. Titcombe, OBE, WRAF,at Coastal Command headquarters. Scenes from Gan Island, where the RAF staging post (in return for the establishment of which Parliament was last week asked to authorize a payment of £100,000 to the Maldive Government) is now in full operation. At left below is the commanding officer, Wg Cdr I. Thomas; centre, the control tower, with Fit Lt D. Schwab on ATC duty; and, at right, four RAF personnel walk past a Hastings of Transport Command. (A photograph of the airfield, taken from the air, was published on this page on December 25)
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