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HWPHHII ili'WiWtt* «i 805 FLIGHT, 10 June 1960 "There be nine worthy and the best ..." as Malory said in "Le Morte D'Arthur": Hunters of Treble-One Sqn, again the RAF premier aero- batic team, in characteristic attitude during practice for this season's displays SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News Royal Commandant-in-ChiefA N announcement in the London Gazette• last week stated that the Queen "had been graciously pleased to assume theappointment of Commandant-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell." Saluting The Queen. CIXTEEN Hunters from four Fighter^ Command squadrons are to fly past Buckingham Palace at 1300hr tomorrow(Saturday, June 11) in salute to the Queen on her official birthday, and Her Majestywill take the salute from the palace balcony. The Hunters, in four boxes of four aircrafteach, are to fly at about 1,000ft at 400 m.p.h.; they rendezvous at Duxford andtheir inbound route lies over Halstead, Chelmsford, Victoria Park and along theMall. On the return journey the Hunters are to cross Kensington, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Watford and St Albans. The fly-past is being led by Wg Cdr G. J. Storey, OCFlying at Duxford, and the squadrons represented are Nos 65, 56, 19 and 66. Far East Command A NEW Commander-in-Chief, Far EastAir Force, has been appointed: AVM A. D. Selway is to take over this post fromJune 30, with the acting rank of air marshal. He succeeds Air Chief Marshal the Earlof Bandon, who has commanded FEAF since July 1957 and whose new posting isbeing announced later. AVM Selway's present Coastal Command appointment, asAOC No 18 Group and Senior RAF Officer Scotland, is being taken over by Air CdreR. B. Thomson. The latter, now AOC Gibraltar, will have the acting rank of airvice-marshal when he takes up his new duties on June 24. AVM Selway has been AOC No 18Group since September 1958, and his pre- vious posts in the 1950s have included com- In Buenos Aires and Singapore: supplies being loaded into a Britannia of No 99 Sqn for Chilean earthquake relief; and at left, Sqn Ldr John Garstin, captain of the record- breaking long-distance Valiant, being inter- viewed at the end of his flight from Marham mand of the RAF staff at the British JointServices Mission in Washington, Air Attache in Paris and Commandant of theCFS. He won the DFC in 1940 and in the 1930s was a member of the CFS in-verted flying team. Air Cdre Thomson became AOC Gibraltar in May 1958,having previously been Gp Capt i/c Opera- tions at Coastal Command headquarters.He won both the DSO and DFC on anti-U- boat operations during the war, on the latteroccasion having to spend three days in a dinghy when his Fortress was damaged bygunfire and had to be ditched. Forty Years OnS OME 75 ex-apprentices, who joined theRAF forty years ago, are visiting Halton today to take a look at what life is like fortheir modern counterparts. The occasion is a reunion of the 1st and 2nd entries—February and September 1920—at No 2 School of Technical Training (Boys) atCranwell; it is being held at Halton by per- mission of the Commandant, No 1 Schoolof Technical Training, Air Cdre T. N. Coslett. The reunion—which was sparkedoff by an article, Cranwell's Earliest Days, by J. C. Corlett in Flight for February 5—includes a tour of the apprentices' school, films and slides, and dinner in HaltonHouse. Snake's Eye ViewS EA VENOMS from HMS Centaurattacking an airfield, and RN Whirl- winds landing Royal Marine Commandos,appear in Eastmancolor in the Central Office of Information's first productionin Cinemascope—a film about the Royal Marines called Code Name Snake's Eye.It is having its West End premiere at the Carlton, Haymarket, prior to beinggenerally released by 20th Century-Fox. Despite its rather formidable and mouth-filling title (Snake's Eye is the code-name for a town used as objective in a marinecommando exercise), this film provides a crisp 271 minutes' entertainment andshould help to populate the RM recruiting offices. The flying sequences are well man-aged, particularly the catapult launches; though RAF spectators may squirm to seeRN aircraft shooting-up some of their Meteors. Spoiling the planes for a ha'porthof paint, in fact. IN BRIEF The Queen's Colour for the Royal Air Forcein the United Kingdom will be paraded at RAF Oakington tomorrow (Saturday) to mark theQueen's official birthday. Parachute training in the Far East is beingundertaken by men of 16 Independent Para- chute Brigade Group, Aldershot, 100 of whomleft the UK by Britannia on June 2. They are due to return on June 25.
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