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76 FLIGHT, 20 July 1961 SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News Commemorating TrenchardA MEMORIAL statue of ViscountTrenchard was being unveiled yester- day (July 19) on the Victoria Embankmentin front of the new Air Ministry building by the Prime Minister. The occasion wasbeing marked by a parading of the Queen's Colour for the Royal Air Force in theUnited Kingdom; a fly-past from north to south by 16 Hunters of No 92 Sqn andwreath-laying by Air Chief Marshal Sir George H. Mills. Air ADC to the Queen,by the Prime Minister, Air Minister and Chief of the Air Staff. Viscount Trenchardwas the first Chief of the Air Staff, in 1918; he died in 1956 at the age of 83. The archi-tect of the memorial is Sir Albert Richardson. Promoted Rear AdmiralT WO former captains of aircraft carriers,Capt H. R. Law, OBE, DSC, and Capt P. D. Gick, OBE, DSC, were promoted rearadmiral from July 7. Rear Admiral Law- commanded HMS Centaur on her commis-sioning in 1958: he is at present Captain, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.Rear Admiral Gick took command of HMS Bulwark in January 1957 and wasresponsible for the carrier's prompt action in helping to salvage the tankers Melikaand Fernand Gilabert in the Persian Gulf in 1958. During the war, he took partin the attack on Bismarck by aircraft of 825 Sqn from HMS Victorious; and hecommanded 815 RN Air Sqn in the Western Desert from December 1941 to September1942. He was CO of RNAS Lossiemouth before commanding Bulwark. Hack Trophy WinnersS OUTHAMPTON UAS won the HackTrophy—for the second time in three years—at Little Rissington on July 1. Theyscored 78 points, Leeds coming a close second with 76. Liverpool got 71.6 andAberdeen 55.8. The trophy was presented to Southampton's commanding officer,Sqn Ldr A. A. Pearce, by the acting AOC- in-C Flying Training Command, AVMH. A. V. Hogan. Air Cdre G. C. Hartnell, who commands RAAF Butterworth in Malaya, being congratu- lated by the CO cf No 110 Sqn, Sqn Ldr C. Simons (left), after his first solo in a Sycamore. He received training from the squadron training officer, Fit Lt Bill Stevens (right) Farewell flight by javelin FAW.2s of No 46 Sqn, seen heading towards the Severn estuary after passing over the Gloster Aircraft works at Brockworth and Moreton Valence. Recently disbanded. No 46 became the first Javelin FAW.I squadron in 1956 Parachute School's 21st AT Abingdon last Friday No 1 Schoolof Parachute Training celebrated 21years' existence. It was formed as the Central Landing Establishment at Ringway,Manchester, in 1940, and airborne forces were trained there for the great assaults ofthe Second World War—Sicily, Normandy, Arnhem and the Rhine crossing. At theend of the war, the School moved to Upper Heyford, then to Abingdon in 1950. Inits 21 years over 120,000 parachutists have been trained and more than 750,000descentsmade from some 18 types of aircraft. The School is today commanded byWg Cdr B. F. Stannard, AFC; it has 30 officer and 107 warrant officer and NCOinstructors, all members of the RAF Physical Fitness Branch. Hastings andBeverley aircraft are chiefly used for instruc- tion; towards the end of this year theAW.660 Argosy will be introduced. Train- ing at the School was described in an articlein Flight for May 6 last year. IN BRIEF The RCAF team won the Guynemer Trophy,awarded for the NATO air-firing competition, for the fourth consecutive year at Leeuwardenair base in the Netherlands on July 7. AVM E. W. S. Jackiin, Chief or Staff of theRoyal Rhodesian Air Force, retires on August 1 and is being succeeded by Air Cdre A. M.Bentley. Gp Capt V. C. Otter, CBE, a former aircraftapprentice, has recently become STSO at Flying Training Command with the actingrank of air commodore. Five squadrons from RAF Germany andone Royal Netherlands Air Force squadron are competing for the Sassoon Trophy—forphotographic reconnaissance—on July 25. Six officers who recently graduated atNo 4 Flying Training School, Valley, set off after the wings parade on a 4,000 mile returnjourney to Greece in a hired bus as an initiative test. Led by Fg Off M. IC. Field, they are tocover the route taken by Ulysses on his return from the Trojan War. Fg Off Ian Strachan, a Valiant co-pilot atMarham and a member of the RAF GSA, recently became one of only three pilots in theAssociation to gain two Diamond "Cs." He took off from Lasham and flew for sixand a half hours to Horsham St Faith via Edgehill in Warwickshire, under conditionswhich for half the distance were unfavourable with complete cloud cover. Commissioning of the Royal Navy's first Wessex squadron, No 815, at Culdrose recently (this page, last week): Capt C. L M. Webb, captain of HMS "Sea Hawk," addressing members of the squadron, whose insignia is a harp, commemorating the unit's sojourn at RNAS Eglinton in Northern Ireland Lt G. Bruce (centre) and PO O'Rourke of the Royal Navy taking delivery of a Canberra U.IO at Belfast recently from the Short Bros flight liaison engineer, Mr R. Lloyd, before taking off for Hal Far, Malta. The U./Os are used as high-speed targets for missile firing
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