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134 FLIGHT, 22 July I960 Cranwell's Royal Visitors TPHE Queen, accompanied by the Duke••- of Edinburgh, is visiting the RAF Col- lege, Cranwell, next Monday (July 25). HerMajesty, who became Commandant-in- Chief of the College last June, will presenta new Queen's Colour and review the 77th entry of flight cadets. (The colour pre-sented by King George VI in 1948 will be laid up in the College chapel.) During theparade, the Queen is to present the Sword of Honour and Queen's Medal; and after itshe and the Duke will each plant a tree at the entrance to a new road in the Collegegrounds, to be known as Queen's Avenue. All-weather Entente EXCHANGE visits, which started last-*—' Tuesday and continue until next Thursday, are being made between aJavelin squadron of RAF Fighter Com- mand and a Vautour squadron of theFrench Air Force: the former is No 72 Sqn, based at Leconfield with FAW.4s and5 s and commanded by Wg Cdr R. E. Gardner; and the latter the 30e Escadre deChasse Tous-Temps ("all-weather fighter squadron"), commanded by Capitaine Bergand equipped with Sud Vautour II-Ns. This exchange, says the Air Ministry,"is part of routine training by the air forces of NATO countries . . . both British andFrench aircraft operating as one unit." CFS Presentations A PRESENTATION was made to theCentral Flying School when the 48th anniversary reunion dinner of the CFSAssociation was held at Little Rissington on July 8. It took the form of a splendidmodel of a B.E.2—originally given to the first commandant, the late CommodoreG. M. Payne, by officers of the school—and was presented on this occasion by AVM SirWillet A. B. Bowen-Buscarlet on behalf of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland.The president on July 8 was Air Marshal Sir Richard L. R. Atcherley and the guestof honour the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Pike, who inhis speech stressed the RAF's need of manned aircraft "for many years to come." Marshal of the RAF Sir Dermot Boyle, former chief of the Air Staff, presenting a standard to No 17 Sqn (of which he was once a member) at RAF Wildenrath on July 72. The squadron, now equipped with Canberra PR.7s, is commanded by Wg Cdr D. T. M. Lumsden SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News The CFS Commandant, Air CdreJ. N. H. Whitworth, reviewed activities during the past year and spoke of the highregard in which the school is held in countries which he and his staff had visited.Two other presentations were made at the dinner, the Commandant receiving fromAir Cdre I. G. Morrison of the RNZAF a plaque bearing the crest of the RNZAFCentral Flying School at Wigram, and him- self presenting the Thai Air Attache (GpCapt Panieng Kantarat) with a plaque bear- ing the CFS badge. Premier V-bomber Squadron •A NEW Bomber Command efficiency**• trophy, to be awarded annually to the V-bomber squadron achieving the best all- round performance in all facets of opera-tions and training, has been won by No 90 Sqn. It is being presented to them atHonington next Thursday (July 28) by the High Commissioner for Australia, Sir EricHarrison; for the trophy—a 2ft high figure of an angel holding aloft a symbolic torch,surmounted by a ring bearing the number "460"—was presented to Bomber Com-mand in 1955 by No 460 Sqn, Royal Australian Air Force Association, inmemory of a thousand squadron aircrew who lost their lives in World War 2. No 90 Sqn has been operating VickersValiants since January 1957. It is com- manded by Wg Cdr J. Miller, who tookover from Wg Cdr F. S. Hazlewood last April. IN BRIEF Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother has beenappointed Commandant-in-Chief of the RAF ' Central Flying School and the Duke of Edin-burgh Commandant-in-Chief of the RAF Technical College. Air Cdre E. L. G. Le Dieu, Director ofPersonal Services (B) at Air Ministry, is to be Air Commodore in charge of Organization atMaintenance Command headquarters from July 17. No 14 Sqn is holding a reunion in theofficers' mess, RAF Biggin Hill, on Saturday, August 6. Further details may be obtained fromFit Lt Ian Stanway, RAF West Raynham, Fakenham, Norfolk. The first of six weekly programmes calledLife in the Royal Air Force is being presented by BBC TV at 5 p.m. today (July 22) the firstthree will illustrate life in Fighter Command and the last three will deal with BomberCommand. Fit Lt D. G. Scott, an RCAF officer on anexchange posting with the USAF, has been awarded the American DFC for an "exemplaryperformance in the face of extreme danger." He brought back his WB-50 safely to Fair-banks, Alaska, after part of a propeller had broken away when the aircraft was 900 milesout on a weather reconnaissance flight. This caused a 26in hole in the fuselage and severedsome of the electrical, hydraulic and control cables. Sqn Ldr R. A. Poole has been appointedCO of No 1 (County of Hertford) Maritime Headquarters Unit, RAuxAF, with the actingrank of wing commander. A French Naval air squadron of eight SudAquilon aircraft (D.H. Sea Venom derivative) recently carried out three days' training inHMS Ark Royal. The RAF Benevolent Fund has received£15,530 from 334 branches of the RAFA in connection with Battle of Britain activities lastyear. During the corresponding period of 1959, donations totalled £15,359 from 356 branches. A garden party was held last Friday atHeadley Court, the RAF medical rehabilitation centre on the southern slopes of EpsomDowns, to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The mansion was presented to the RAF in 1946 bvthe Institute of Chartered Auctioneers and Estate Agents to commemorate the Battle ofBritain. A Gloster Javelin FAW.8 of No 47 Sqn (commanded by Wg Cdr D. W. H. Smith) over Valetto Harbour, Malta: a photograph taken during a recent detachment by eight aircraft of the squadron to RAF Luqa tor Malta Adex 7960. During its three phases, the detachment achieved an attrition rate higher than in any previous Malta defence exercises
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