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IGHT, 27 April 1961 575 .etachment from Driffield, led by Sqn Lrd D. H. wns, at Vandenberg AFB with the Thor from :• UK with which they made the first night mch by an RAF crew under the Combat Training Programme SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News East African AirliftT WO Britannias of Nos 99 and 511 Sqnsrecently carried out an airlift of Indian troops from Dar-es-Salaam inTanganyika to Kamina in the Congo at the request of the United Nations. The aircraftwere making two flights daily over a period of four days via Entebbe in Uganda. Down to SomersetA FORMER Hal ton apprentice who secured a cadetship to the RAF Col-lege, Air Cdre W. D. Disbrey, CBE, AFC, has been appointed to command No 1 RadioSchool at Locking, Som, where apprentices for RAF radio and radar careers are trained.Air Cdre Disbrey was a pilot until 1938, when he took a specialist engineering course andtransferred to the technical branch. He was until recently seconded to the MoA. Protean Visitors /""""< UESTS at Glasgow UAS annual dinnervJ recently included the captain of USS Proteus, Capt R. B. Laning (seen on theextreme right of the photograph below), and the commodore of Submarine Squadron 14,Capt Norvell G. Ward, who is in the centre of the group speaking with Air ChiefMarshal the Earl of Bandon, Commander AFCE, the principal guest. Also inthe group are AVM H. J. Kirkpatrick, AOC No 25 Group, who presented the Weir Trophy for the best all-round first-year cadet to Cdt Pit D. S. A. Clavering (second from right) and the AerobaticTrophy to Acting Pit Off D. R. Ruddick (third from left). The squadron CO, WgCdr D. M. Finn, is second from left. Sir Leonard SlatterA FORMER AOC-in-C Coastal Com-mand (1945-48) and a pilot of distinction in the First World War, AirMarshal Sir Leonard Slatter, KBE, CB, DSC, DFC, died in hospital recently at theage of 66. He won the DSC in 1917 and aBar to it in 1918 when serving in the RNAS, and after transferring to the RAF was madean OBE for operations in support of the White Russian forces. In 1926 he wasselected by Air Ministry to form and command the High Speed Flight and in1929 made a solo flight to South Africa (he was South African by birth) in a Black-burn Bluebird. During the last war he was AOC for the Eritrea and Abyssinia cam-paign, then commanded 201 Naval Co- operation Group at Alexandria, beingknighted in 1942 in recognition of these services. He was AOC No 15 GroupCoastal Command from February 1943, with responsibility for the air side of theBattle of the Atlantic, before succeeding Sir Sholto Douglas as AOC-in-C CoastalCommand. IN BRIEF The Commando carrier HMS Bulwark, theaircraft carrier HMS Victorious and the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbournehave been taking part in "Pony Express," the largest military exercise ever held by SEATO,in the South China Sea off North Borneo. The first part of a four-year modernisationscheme at RNAS Lossiemouth is nearing completion. It includes two junior ratings,blocks, a main dining hall, galleys and a new canteen. The 1961 meeting of the No 264 Sqn dinnerclub is being held at the Milestone Hotel, Kensington Court, London W8, on May 26.Members who have not yet received details should contact Fit Lt R. C. Olding, Officers'Mess, RAF Bassingbourn, Royston, Herts. A new brochure on the Empire Test Pilots'School has recently been published. With a foreword by Sir George Gardner, Controllerof Aircraft, MoA, it describes and illustrates the work of the school and contains groupphotographs and lists of all the nineteen courses that have been held since 1943. A reunion of past and present members ofNo 223 Sqn, RAF, and of its forerunner. No 23 Sqn, RNAS, is being held at the RAFReserves Club. 14 South Street, Park Lane, London Wl, on Saturday, May 6, at 6 p.m.The organizer, Mr Colin Turner, MP, may be contacted at the House of Commons,London SW1. Squadron members and Service guests at the Glasgow UAS annual dinner (see "Protean Visitors"). Prof J. D. Mackie, Historiographer Royal for Scotland, replied on behalf of the guests to the commanding officer's speech of welcome. Members of the group are named in the news-item Wg Cdr G. M. Mower with Australian "Rats of Tobruk" Association members at Tobruk when ceremonies were held commemorating the twentieth anniversary of its seven-month siege, during which he flew a lone Hurricane based in Tobruk. He flew over from Cyprus for the ceremony
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