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FLIGHT, 20 January 1961 95 n SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News FOA (Home) Appointed AN officer who won the DSC while serv-A ing in HMS Ajax as gunnery officer during the Battle of the River Plate is to bethe next Flag Officer Air (Home): now Rear Admiral D. P. Dreyer, CB, CBE, DSC,he takes over his new appointment in May, succeeding Vice-Admiral Sir DericHolland-Martin, KCB, DSO, DSC, who becomes C-in-C, Mediterranean. Admiral Dreyer is the son of the lateAdmiral Sir Frederick Dreyer, Beatty's Flag Captain at the Battle of Jutland.Since January last year he has been Flag Officer (Flotillas), Mediterranean, andprior to that was Assistant Chief of Naval Staff. He was made a CBE in 1957 andcreated a CB in the Birthday Honours of 1960. Changes of Command TWO AOC-in-C appointments areA announced by the Air Ministry. AVM Sir Leslie Dalton-Morris, KBE, CB, is to beAir Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Main- tenance Command, from March 1, withthe acting rank of air marshal, in succes- sion to Air Marshal Sir Douglas Jackman,KBE, CB, who will be retiring from the RAF; and AVM W. P. G. Pretty, CB, CBE,is to be Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Signals Command, from next June. AVM Dalton-Morris is the presentAOC-in-C Signals Command, having pre- viously been Assistant Chief of the Air Staff(Signals) and before that Chief Signals Officer, Middle East Air Force. AVMPretty has been Director-General of Organ- ization at the Air Ministry since October1958, having previously been AOA, 2nd Tactical Air Force. RAF captains of the Dakotas being used by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on the Nepalese sector of their Asian tour (see "From All Quarters," p 72): Sqn Ldr D. M. Divers (left) and Sqn Ldr P. J. Langley New Year Moves CHANGES for two senior RAF officerswere announced by the Air Ministry t week: AVM J. F. Hobler is to be AOA,Far East Air Force, from May; and AVM H. J. Kirkpatrick becomes AOC No 25Oroup, Flying Training Command, from the beginning of next month. AVM Hobler, an Australian who trans-ferred from the RAAF to the RAF in 1932, i^L en AOC No 25 Group since October1958 and before that was AOA, Middle fcast Axr Force. AVM Kirkpatrick, whowon the DFC when commanding No 218 &qn (Wellingtons) early in the war, has been Chief of Staff, 2nd ATAF, Germany,since August 1957. Previously he was ACAS (Operational Requirements) at theAir Ministry. Henlow's Diploma Status Jfk RECENT decision by the National•**• Council for Technological Awards to recognize all technical cadets taking thecourse at the RAF Technical College, Henlow, as eligible for the Diploma inTechnology—equivalent to an honours degree in a British university—has beendescribed by Air Ministry as "the most significant development" in the history ofthe college. This decision follows visits to Henlow by members of the council; andas a result of it—to quote from a recent Air Ministry news letter—the RAF"becomes the first of the three Services to provide a course for its technical cadetswhich meets the very high standards of instruction required by the Council for'dip tech' recognition." The first cadets to benefit from thechange will be those who entered Henlow last autumn. Like subsequent intakes, theywill do four years and two terms at the college before taking their end-of-course C/Obs R. C. Mitchell (left) on duty with Obs M. Randall, a new member of No 5 Group, Royal Observer Corps, during a recent exer- cise. Their post, Alfa Wun, is on the 212ft high tower of London University Senate House examinations. Following these, the com-mandant (in conjunction with an external examiner appointed by the college andapproved by the council) will submit to the council his recommendations for the con-ferment of the Diploma in Technology (Engineering). Eligibility of the Henlowcourse for continued recognition for the award is to be reviewed by the councilevery five years. NEWS IN BRIEF HMS Ark Royal is to make a four-day good- will visit to New York from February 18 to 22. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh areto visit No 1 Initial Training School at RAF South Cerney, Glos, on April 20. No 3 Sqn, formerly equipped with Javelins,now has Canberra B(I).Ss. Its number was taken over in a ceremony at RAF Geilen-kirchen, Germany, on January 4 by No 59 Sqn. No 3 is one of the oldest squadrons in the RoyalAir Force. It was formed at Farnborough in May 1912 and went to France in August 1914. It is understood that the New ZealandGovernment is to make an announcement "very shortly" about the replacement of the12 Sunderland flying-boats at present operated by the RNZAF. Possible alternatives (Flight,October 21 last year, page 656) are the Martin P5M-1 or -2 or the US Navy's MR versionof the Lockheed Electra. No 38 Group Old Comrades Association areholding their 15 th annual general meeting and reunion dinner at the Victoria Hotel, Bucking-ham Palace Road, London SW1, on March 11, 1961, at 6.30 p.m. Tickets (£1 each) may beobtained from the hon secretary, Mrs L. C. Rendall, c/o Bailey's Hotel, Gloucester Road,London SW7. Gp Capt K. T. Nicklin, OBE, formerly SeniorEquipment Staff Officer, MEAF (before taking last year's IDC course), recently became COat No 16 MU, Stafford, with the acting rank of air commodore. The badge of No 280 Signals Unit in Cyprus,recently presented to the CO of the Unit, Wg Cdr P. A. Knapton, by AVM J. Worrall,SASO, Middle East Air Force, incorporates a wild cat face, in keeping with the name ofCape Gata, the legendary "cape of cats" in southern Cyprus on which the unit is based. During the decade just ended, some 2,500cadets of the Air Training Corps have gained PPLs under the RAF flying scholarship schemewhich started in 1950. Since that date, 3,000 ATC cadets have been selected for flying train-ing; and of the 2,500 who qualified for PPLs, 48 per cent later joined the RAF for flyingduties. The RAF Benevolent Fund have received£50 for their residential school, Vanbrugh Castle, Blackheath, from Rolls-Royce Ltd, thedonation having been made as an alternative to sending out Christmas cards. Donations forthe same reason, but not specifically for the school, have been received by the Fund fromthe ARB (fifty guineas) and Smiths Aircraft Instruments Ltd (a hundred guineas). Members of No 7 (County of Hertford) Maritime Headquar- ters Unit, RAuxAF, at Northolt on their return from a recent weekend training and liaison visit to the French NATO head- auarters at Brest. The unit is based at Valency House, Northwood, Middx
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