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480 FLIGHT, 16 September 1960 Director of Quartering A NEW appointment has been an-**• nounced for Gp Capt Frank Hume, who for most of his 24 years in the RAFhas been a navigation specialist: from September 26, he is to be Director ofQuartering at the Air Ministry, with the acting rank of air commodore. SinceNovember 1957, he has been Senior Officer in charge of Administration at AHQ Malta. Lord Trophy Winners /COMPETED for annually by squadrons^ of RAF Transport Command as an efficiency award, the Lord Trophy has beenwon for 1960 by No 84 Sqn, which operates Beverleys at Khormaksar in the ArabianProtectorate: it was presented to them recently by AVM D. J. P. Lee, AOC AirForces, Arabian Peninsula. The competi- tion, which includes low-level flying, pre-cision navigation and paratroop dropping, was held at Colerne earlier this year. No84's winning crew were Fit Lt P. V. Mayall (capt), Fg Off C. H. Lansdell (co-pilot),Fit Lt P. J. Swatton (navigator), F/Sgt N. D. Simmons (signaller) and Sgt A. A.Newton (air quartermaster). Runners-up in the competition were No 30 Sqn, fromRAF Eastleigh in Kenya, also an Arabian Peninsula Command unit. Fishermen find Lightning TPHANKS to the chance discovery, by-*• two weekend fishermen from King's Lynn, of the site where a Lightning wentinto the Wash on March 5, salvage opera- tions are now being carried out to recoverthe whole of the aircraft and determine the cause of the accident. The Lightning, from the Air FightingDevelopment Squadron at RAF Coltishall, came down into the sea after the pilot hadejected. A search for the aircraft was organized, but it was not until June 23 thatany part of it was found, when a King's Lynn fishing vessel picked up a piece oftailplane. The actual position of the Lightning remained obscure until theweekend before last when Mr P. Tilbury and Mr K. Earley, garage proprietors fromKing's Lynn, discovered their net had been fouled by an obstruction when they werefishing three miles from Heacham. They hauled the net in and found pieces ofmetal in it; so they marked the spot and notified the Air Ministry. As a result, thesalvage vessel Airmoor II has subsequently recovered most of the wreckage. P.531 in Battledress A PRODUCTION order for "a substan-tial number" of P.531/2 Mk 1 heli- copters for Army operations has been New mount for a Vulcan pilot of No 617 Sqn: Fg Off H. Hopkins giving a Chipmunk flight to Cdt R. Trigg of 181 Sqn, Air Training Corps, during the squadron's recent visit to1 RAF Scampton SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News placed by the MoA with Westland AircraftLtd. This news follows the recent announcement of a development contractfor this aircraft, a military version of the Wasp. The P.531/2 Mk 1 (previously referredto as the Sprite) is a general-purpose five- six seat helicopter powered by an 885s.h.p. Blackburn A. 129 Nimbus free- turbine engine derated to 650 s.h.p. Thisderating enables sea-level performance to be maintained under all normal operatingconditions. Westland have said of the P.531/2 Mk 1that its present design characteristics were achieved in complete liaison with, and inaccordance with requirements of, the Ser- vices. The machine has a low silhouetteand small dimensions, together with good all-round visibility resulting from thePerspex canopy extending from well for- ward to behind the passenger seating. Themanufacturers add that these factors, in addition to its good manoeuvring charac-teristics, "make it extremely suitable for reconnaissance and liaison duties." Remembering the Battle TN a Battle of Britain Week appeal the-*- chairman of the RAF Benevolent Fund council, Viscount Knollys, refers to those"for whom the Battle of Britain is not only a glorious memory . . . but an event whichstill casts a dark shadow across their lives —the shadow of a lost husband, father, sonor of cruel disablement." The fund, he says, exists to help thosewho suffer today because they—or a mem- ber of their family—gave life or limb at Capt G. D. Pound re- ceiving on behalf of the wardroom of HMS "Osprey," parent establishment of the RN helicopter station at Portland, a silver model of a Whirlwind helicopter. The pre- sentation was made by Mr E. C. Wheel- don, deputy chairman and managing direc- tor of Westland Aircraft, at Yeovil recently that critical time. For the past twelve years,this work of relieving distress has cost £1,600 a day, and money spent hasexceeded income by £594,418. Viscount Knollys adds: "May I ask all, and not onlythose who remember the Battle of Britain, to express their gratitude for the past 20years of freedom by sending a donation which will be gratefully acknowledged at67 Portland Place, London Wl." RAF Comet 4Cs AS announced in our Farnborough-** Report issue last week (page 414), a contract is being negotiated by the MoAwith de Havilland Aircraft Co Ltd for the purchase of five Cornet 4Cs for TransportCommand, which since 1956 has been operating ten Comet 2s in No 216 Sqn.The 4Cs, scheduled for delivery during next year and 1962, are powered by fourRolls-Royce Avon RA.29s of 10,5001b static thrust each. They combine features of boththe Comet 4 and the 4B, having the former's greater wing span and larger fuel-tanks and the latter's longer, large-capacity fuselage. The 4C's cruising speed, at alti-tudes from 30,000ft to 39,000ft, is given as 500 m.p.h.; and it can fly a practical stage-length, with reserves, of over 3,300 miles. With 100 passengers and baggage thepractical stage-length is 2,500 s.m. IN BRIEF No 3 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn at RAFNorton, Sheffield, is to move to Huntingdon- shire in 1962-63. The RAF base at Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, is being handed-over to the Malayan Go'.orn- ment next month. No 85 Sqn, the Javelin FAW squadron which has been at West Mailing since August 5 last year, moved last week to West Raynham. Details of ski-ing holidays organized by theRAF Ski and Winter Sports Association may be obtained from Sqn Ldr D. E. K. Mock,Central Flying School, RAF Little Rissington, Cheltenham, Glos. Tht first of ten Canadair CC-109 Cosmo-politans for Air Transport Command of the RCAF made its inaugural cargo flight fromOttawa to Goose Bay, Labrador, on August 17. During Battle of Britain Week commemora-tions in Ottawa a Spitfire loaned to the RCAr has been on display at Parliament Hill. It is aMk 16, TE353, which recently has been on display outside RAF Ternhill. When tneCanadian Joint Staff in London advised the Air Ministry that the only Spitfire in Canada was aMk 2 in poor condition, the loan was readdy agreed to, in recognition of the major roitplayed by RCAF pilots in the Battle of Britain; and TE353, a post-war aircraft built in 1946,was shipped to Canada.
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