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516 FLIGHT, 28 September 1961 SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News Australian ADCs TWO RAAF appointments as HonoraryAides-de-Camp to the Queen wereannounced in Canberra recently by the Minister for Air, Senator Harrie Wade.The new ADCs are Air Cdre K. R. J. Parsons, CBE, DSO, DFC, AFC, and Wg CdrC. G. C. Olive, DFC. They take over from Gp Capt D. W. Colquhoun, DFC, AFC,and Wg Cdr J. B. Nicholls, DFC, who have completed their terms of appointment asHonorary ADCs. Air Cdre Parsons, one of the most highlydecorated officers in the RAAF, at present commands Point Cook and is Commandantof the RAAF Academy. During the Second World War he served in both the South-west Pacific and European theatres. While in the United Kingdom he commanded thebomber base at Binbrook. A member of the RAAF Reserve likeWg Cdr Nicholls, Wg Cdr Olive is a Brisbane businessman and is Queensland State Com-mandant of the Air Training Corps. At the outbreak of the Second World War he waswith 65 Sqn, RAF, and flew on operations over Dunkirk and in the Battle of Britain.In 1941 he formed and commanded 456 Sqn, RAAF. Lincolns and a Spitfire (above) at the Biggin Hill, Kent, Battle of Britain display on September 16; and at left and below, "Flight" artist Arthur Bowbeer's impressions. The Lin- colns, belonging to Signals Command, were from Watton; the Spitfire, a Mk 9 in Free French Air Force markings for (he film "The Longest Day," had been flown over from Ostend by its owner M Pierre Laureys (right), director of a French aeronautical publishing group and a commodore in the FFAF: he made the trip, it is reported, without compass or maps. Bowbeer's sketches illustrate the Biggin Hill "at home" scene (top left); "say cheese" request to a young visitor seated in Seahawk WM9I5 (lower left); and "Wham!" up goes another Service demonstrator in the ejector seat rig
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