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326 FLIGHT, 10 March 1961 First air-to-air photo- graph of a LF-104 Super Starfighter in RCAF markings. There are to be eight squadrons of these aircraft (built by Canadair, Montreal) in the European Air Division of the RCAF SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News CSE Commandant AWARDED the DSO in 1945 for opera-tions while commanding No 178 Sqn with the Mediterranean Allied Air Force,and until recently Director of Flight Safety at Air Ministry, Air Cdre J. C. Millar hasbecome Commandant of the Central Sig- nals Establishment. The operations, carriedout in Liberators against heavy opposition, were low-level mine-laying in Venice har-bour and an attack on railway sidings at Graz. Aged 47, he was Chief Signals Offi-cer at Bomber Command in 1954. Ark's Busy Commission A FTER a very busy 15 months (her third**• general service commission) HMS Ark Royal returned to her home port,Devonport, last week. Much of the com- mission was spent in the Mediterranean,but the carrier also went up to the Nor- wegian Sea area for the NATO exerciseSwordthrust and recently spent ten days in the Davis Strait (west of Greenland) forcold weather flying trials. Her squadrons (Scimitar, Sea Vixen, Gannet and Whirl-wind) have flown 8,500 sorties, 450 of them at night; her catapults have launched 2,400Scimitars, 1,100 Sea Vixens and 400 Gan- nets, in addition to visiting aircraft; andover 3,000 helicopter flights have been made. Ark Royal has steamed 80,000 milesduring her latest commission and been at sea for 56 per cent of her time away fromthe United Kingdom. I Maldive AnniversaryG AN, the 1J mile by three-quarters of amile coral island in the Indian Ocean midway between Aden and Singapore, hasjust ended its first year of full operation as an RAF staging post. During that time,630 aircraft have been turned round, 12,500 passengers and l^mlb of freight handled.The airfield and its facilities were developed as a replacement for Katanayakein Ceylon, and form part of the Far East Air Force, whose aircraft transported half-a-million lb of stores and equipment a month between the bases from June 1959until the transfer was completed in February last year. of the biggest search areas in the world,six or seven times the size of India. Two Shackietons of No 205 Sqn from RAFChan^i, Singapore, are permanently sta- tioned on the island for ASR duties. IN BRIEF The VCAS is now Air Chief Marshal SirEdmund Hudleston. His promotion from the rank of air marshal, from March 1, wasannounced in the London Gazelle for February 28. The aircraft carrier Victorious had 20,000visitors during her recent stay in Cape Town. The Queen with a replica of the Pakis- tan Air Force badge presented to her by the C-in-C, Air Mar- shal M. Asghar Khan, at a dinner at PAF Peshawar during her visit to Pakistan. On the right is Begum Asghar Khan. The replica is in gold, silver and diamonds Gan now has an 8,700ft concrete runway;its navigation and instrument landing aids facilitate the handling of all types of Ser-vice transport aircraft by day and night. Its rescue co-ordination centre covers one A new headquarters for No 4 Group, RoyalObserver Corps, was npened at Colchester last Saturday by Col Sir John Ruggles-Brise, LordLieutenant of Essex. Gp Capt R. F. L. Hart, FCA, has beenappointed an ADC to the Queen in succession to Gp Capt (Acting Air Cdre) C. V. Mears.CBE, FCA, on the latter's retirement from the RAF. The forty-fourth officers' reunion dinner ofNo 46 Sqn is bdn? held on April 22, with the traditional ladies' luncheon on the followingday. Details may be obtained from Sqn Ldr Peter Gifkins, RAF Linton-on-Ouse, York. Air Cdre A. W. Bigsworth, CMG, DSO, AFC.first officer to drop a bomb on to a Zeppelin in flight and to destroy a submarine by bomb-ing, died recently at the age of 75. He won a Bar to his pso in 1917. From 1931 until hisretirement in 1935 he was Director of Equip- ment at Air Ministry. Scimitars on the flight deck of HMS "Ark Royal" during cold-weather flying trials in th-- Davis Strait, west of Greenland (see Co/ J
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