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464 The Duke of Edin- burgh presenting the RAeC Britannia Trophy to Sqn Ldr P. Latham, CO of No 111 Sqn, at Wat- tisham last week. The Duke had flown to Wattisham by heli- copter through bad weather which forced cancellation of an aerobatic display by the squadron SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News . Escort and HospitalityT HE Sud Caravelle bringing Presidentde Gaulle on his state visit to Britain was to be escorted from French territorialwaters to Gatwick by six Hunters of No 65 Sqn who were operating for the occasionfrom West Mailing. Representing the Air Council and RAP on the President'sarrival was to be the AOC-in-C Fighter Command, Air Marshal Sir HectorMcGregor. During the President's visit, 16 SuperMysteres of No 12 Wing, French Air Force, at Cambrai, were to visit RAF Wattishamwhere No 111 Sqn is based. French groundcrews were being flown in threeNoratlas and the fighters were to take part in local flights and exercises with the RAF.The force was being led by Cmdt Bresset. Talking about EquipmentA SYMPOSIUM on the reliability ofService equipment was held last week at the Federation of British Industries'headquarters. Among the 300 people present were senior representatives of theAir Ministry, Admiralty, War Office and Ministry of Aviation, and industries con-cerned with military supplies. Papers were given outlining aspects of the problems in-volved in supplying modern complex war weapons to a high standard of reliability.A study is being made of suggestions put forward, and the results (to quote theMOA) "are expected to make a valuable contribution to the knowledge of how tospecify, develop and manufacture the even more highly complex weapons of thefuture and ensure their reliability." Link with the Service A T the Glasgow UAS annual dinner on/*- March 24 the Principal and Vice- Chancellor of the University, Sir HectorHetherington, said he hoped Air Ministry considered they were getting their money'sworth from university air squadrons and that these would continue to provide a linkbetween the university and the Service. The commanding officer, Wg Cdr D. M.Finn, mentioned that Sir Hector had be- come a "jet jockey" at the incredibly youngage of 71 years when he flew in a Vamnire Trainer at the unit's summer camp lastyear; and Air Chief Marshal Sir Theodore McEvoy, the Air Secretary, commentedin comparing the guidance of manned aircraft with that of missiles that a suspectaircraft "might after all only be Sir Hector in his Vampire." Among other guests were the AOC-in-CTraining Command, Air Marshal Sir Hugh Constantine, who presented the Aero- batic Trophy to Acting Pit Off D. A. Cameron and the Weir Trophy (for the best all-round first-year cadet) to Cdt Pit J. Bethell; and AVM J. F. Hobler, AOC , No 25 Group. ( ... Joyous HappeningsE VERYONE in the RAF who has livedin an officers' mess has experienced at some time or other the formal ritual ofdining-in nights and their subsequent un- rehearsed rites. A USAF colonel, whowrites under the pseudonym Hamilton V. Ross, has amusingly retailed his views ofsuch occasions in an article in the April issue of Blackwood's Magazine and drawsa useful moral from mess exhibitionism. He describes his experience in three FLIGHT, 8 April I960 phases he calls Orientation (which beganwhen he went as a guest to Cranwell), Participation and Individual Action, thelast involving the rescue of a two-star general from unpropitious circumstances.The colonel relates his after-dinner initiations and achievements (the latterincluding the removal of a cannon from Sandhurst to RAF territory) in amused butprecise detail and pays a transatlantic tribute to such ceremonies by reporting atthe close of his article that so many American officers are now getting experi-ence of British mess life that they are importing some of its habits. He is alsocareful to point out that the "friendly and joyous happenings" he describes took up"only zero-point-one per cent" of his time in England, adding categorically: "thosefellows made me work hard." IN BRIEF The Pathfinder Association is holding itsannual dinner at the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London, on Friday, May 6, at 7.45 p.m. Gp Capt J. N. Stacey, group director at theRAF Staff College, is to take command of the Royal Malayan Air Force in succession to AirCdre N. C. Hyde. No 60 Sqn Officers Dinner Club is holdingits seventh annual reunion at the RAF Club, Piccadilly, London Wl, on April 29, at 7 for7.30 p.m. Tickets (13s 6d) may be obtained from Air Cdre W. Wynter-Morgan, Went-worth, Mount Hermon Road, Woklng, Surrey (Tel. Woking 995). Bristol UAS is holding its seventh annualdinner on April 29 in the Hawthorns Hotel, Bristol, at 7.30 for 8.0 p.m. All members andex-members are invited to attend and should contact the Mess Secretary, Officers' Mess,Bristol University Air Squadron, 12 White- ladies Road, Bristol 8. A Whirlwind HAS.7 from HMS "Albion" lowers supplies to the crew of an Italian schooner in distress south of Crete last month. Skyraiders and Venoms located the ship and two engineer mechanics were lowered to her to inspect her broken rudder. A new part was made in "Albion" and fitted by the engineer mechanics, allowing the vessel to continue her voyage. "Albion" was at the time engaged in a NATO exercise
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