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1961
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408 FLIGHT, 7 September 1961 SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News CFE American VisitS EVEN officers of the Central FighterEstablishment at West Raynham are leaving the UK on September 17 for a four-week visit to US Air Force bases in the United States. Object of the visit is to dis-cuss air defence, weapons development and tactical evaluations with North AmericanAir Defence Command; the team is to be led by Air Cdre E. G. L. Millington, CFECommandant, accompanied by Wg Cdr D. W. B. Farrer of Fighter Command head-quarters. The tour includes visits to Edwards, Nellis, Eglin, Tyndall and Wright-Patterson Air Force bases, to Tactical Air Command and to USAF headquarters inWashington. Saluting "The Few"I N Battle of Britain commemorations onSeptember 17 the salute at the march- past by the Trenchard memorial on theVictoria Embankment is to be taken by Marshal of the RAF Lord Newall, Chief ofthe Air Staff at the time of the battle in 1940. This will follow the thanksgivingservice in Westminster Abbey. Lord Newall will be accompanied at the saluting base bythe Air Minister, Mr Julian Amery, and the CAS, Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Pike.The Abbey service begins at 3 p.m. and is due to last just over an hour; theQueen is being represented by the Air Secretary, Air Chief Marshal Sir TheodoreMcEvoy. At the service, the Fighter Command Ensign is being carried by Wg Cdr G. C. Brunner of the UK Air Traffic Service; the parade, consisting of 23 officersand 521 men and women in four columns, is being commanded by Gp Capt A. L.Winskill, OC Duxford. The parade is to march through OldPalace Yard and the east side of Parliament Square after the service and will enterVictoria Embankment via Bridge Street. As the head of the column reaches thesaluting base, at about 4.45 p.m., a forma- tion of 16 all-weather fighters of RAFFighter Command is to fly over from north to south in four boxes. There will be fourJavelins from 25 Sqn, led by the squadron CO, Wg Cdr J. H. Walton, who will bethe formation leader; four from 85 Sqn (Wg Cdr S. J. Perkins); then eight Light-nings, which will be appearing for the first time in a Battle of Britain fly-past, drawnfrom Nos 56 and 111 Squadrons. The formation is to fly at 350kt at a height of1,200ft. Reserves ClubT OTAL membership of the RAF Re-serves Club, which has just completed its thirteenth year, is now 3,254 comparedwith 3,090 for 1960-61. The Club, whose headquarters are at 14 South Street, Lon-don Wl, has had a successful financial year ending on June 30, showing a profit of£893. The club's president is Sir Miles Thomas and membership is not confined Gp Capt W. L. Brill, the former CO of 467 Sqn, hands a book of squadron names and honours to Ma . McGrath, director of the Australian War Memorial Off-stage at Farnborough: the aircraft carrier "Hermes," from which Scimitars of 804 Sqn, Sea Vixens of 890 Sqn and Gannet AEW.3s of 849 Sqn are flying over each day during the SBAC Show to serving and ex-RAF members, but opento those in the aviation industry and with any interest in flying in the widest sense.The committee are willing to accept a limited number of new members on appli-cation. Battle Souvenir A RTICLES on Bomber Command, form-/\ ation aerobatics, Coastal and Trans- port Command operations, radar, spaceflightand the RAFA are included in the Battle of Britain 21st Anniversary souvenir bookwhich will be on sale prior to and during Battle of Britain week (September 11-17).Minimum price is 2s, and all proceeds go to the RAF Benevolent Fund and Royal AirForces Association. The book includes a programme for the "at home" day onSeptember 16 (see "All Quarters" news- item). The CAS, Air Chief Marshal SirThomas Pike, writes a foreword on The Royal Air Force in the World Today; andamong contributors are the DCAS, Air Marshal Sir Ronald Lees; the C-in-CBomber Command, Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Cross; and Sir George Edwards,executive director, aircraft, British Aircraft Corporation. Two competitions are announced in thebook. One, for Battle of Britain aircraft spotting, offers a first prize of £100; theother is sponsored by Icelandic Airlines, for which the prize is a flight for two to theUSA via Iceland, with a six-day stay at a New York luxury hotel. IN BRIEF Over £10m has now been disbursed by theRAF Benevolent Fund since its foundation by Lord Trenchardin 1919. Referring to "thisvery considerable milestone" the Controller. AVM Sir John Cordingley, said that of thistotal £9,136,868 had been spent since the end of the Second World War. Aircraft apprentices at No 1 School ofTechnical Training, Halton, are renovating a Cierva C.30a autogiro for the NationalScience Museum. They recently (Flight, January 27) renovated a MesserschmittMel63. The autogiro once belonged to 529 Sqn. which was disbanded at UpperCulham Farm in October 1945. This Unit was previously 1448 Flight, and the aircraftwas used with a number of other autogiros on radar calibration work.
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