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1961
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191 FLIGHT,10 February 1961 WD143, one of the last few Avro Lincolns in Royal Air force service, takes off on its final flight from Li nd hoi me Queen's ADC A NEW Aide-de-Camp to the Queenhas been appointed, Gp Capt N. M.Maynard, DFC, AFC, succeeding Gp Capt H. N. G. Wheeler, CB3, pso, DFC, AFC, onthe latter's promotion to air commodore. Gp Capt Maynard is at present command-ing officer of RAF Chanji, Singapore; he was previously SASO, No 25 Group, Fly-ing Training Command. He won the DFC in 1942, when with No 228 Sqn, and wasawarded the AFC in 1947. NATO Co-operation A PRESENTATION was being madein Lisbon on February 9 by the AOC-in-C Coastal Command, Air MarshalSir Edward Chilton, to the Portuguese Chief of Air Staff, General JoaoAlbuquerque Freitas: consisting of a silver rose-bowl about 12in in diameterand 12in high, the gift marks the close operational and training ties existing be-tween the RAF and the Portuguese Air SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News CAS in America 1 ECTURE engagements at the RCAF*-> College and the USAF War College formed part of the programme in a week'svisit to Can;da and the United States by the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief MarshalSir Thomas Pike. He left by Comet 2 of Transport Command on January 31 andwas returning to the United Kingdom last Wednesday. In Washington, the CAS wasto call on the Chief of Staff, USAF, General Gp Capt H. Mool- gavkar, Indian Air Adviser (centre), accepting final deliveries of Hunters at the Hawker air- field at Dunsfold. With him are (left to right) Duncan Simp- son, test pilot; Fit Lt R. G. Hanna, ferry pilot; Bill Bedford, chisf test pilot; and Fg Off T. Kingsley, ferry pilot Thomas D. White, and to have talks withthe British Defence Staff. Also in the US, he was visiting the nuclear submarineGeorge Washington at the invitation of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN. Blunting the Edge 'T'HAT the RAF is not getting enough*- pilots and navigators of the high stan- dard needed was one of the points madeby the Air Minister, Mr Julian Amery, when he spoke to the Preston branch of theRAF A last week. It was "only a question of a few hundred men," he said; but unlessthey came forward the sharp edge of the Service would be blunted. Mr Amery added that he didn't thinkyoung men were discouraged from coming forward by the knowledge that only thebest of them would be accepted; he believed the root of the trouble was "the widespreadbelief that there is no future in flying and that in a few years the Air Force will havenothing but ground-based missiles." This, he commented, could not be fur-ther from the truth: missiles with which we planned to maintain our contribution tothe deterrent would be mounted on aircraft —in the first instance, on the V-bombers;and the decision to build the TSR.2 meant that "we intend to have manned combataircraft in service as far ahead as anyone can foresee. Meanwhile Transport Com-mand has undergone a threefold expan- sion and I don't doubt is destined to growstill further. Beyond that lie the still unknown possibilities of outer space."Lack of enough of the right kind of air- crew was the only shadow on the RAFrecruiting horizon: overall recruiting was going well and, said the Minister, "we fullyexpect to reach our manpower target of 135,000 officers and men by 1963." Force. It is to be made an annual awardfor the most efficient maritime aircrew in the PAF.Air Marshal Chilton, who holds the NATO appointments of Commander,Maritime Air, Eastern Atlantic Area, and Commander, Allied Maritime Air ForcesChannel, is following his visit to Lisbon with one to Gibraltar, to inspect the RAFbase and Coastal Command units there. Appointment in Moscow |j AN air commodore who flew with the| l * Merchant Service Fighter Unit of the ' RAF which operated on the wartime Arcticconvoy run to Murmansk and who speaks Russian has been appointed Air Attache inMoscow: he is Air Cdre Michael Lyne, AFC, who since April 1958 has commandedRAF Wildenrath in Germany. One of his earlier post-war appointments was thecommand of No 54 Sqn at Odiham. He hold, two Bars to his AFC. Pilots of the Royal Navy's Intensive Flying Trials Unit who recently spent a week at Blackburn Aircraft studying various aspects of the Buccaneer. From left to right they are (seated): Lt B. R. Toomey, Lt Cdr A. J. Leahy, Instr Lt Cdr D. C. Bain; (standing): Lts M. J. A. Hornblower, J. A. Carrodus, W. P. Ryce, G. B. Hoddinott, J. L. Williams and B. Davies. Lts Carrodus and Davies are members of "C" Sqn, A & AEE, Boscombe Down
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