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1961 - 1413.PDF
5b Sqn "as was" and "as is," depicted by the Bristol Bulldog (squadron equipment 1932-36) and English Electric Lightning (1961- ). The Bulldog, recently restored, was flown by Bristol Aircraft chief test pilot Godfrey Auty; the Lightning by the commanding officer, Sqn Ldr J. R. Rogers. 56 wear red-and-white checkerboard markings. K-2227 was featured in last week's issue Back from the Cameroons AFTER a year's service in the Cameroons,more than a hundred officers andmen of 230 Sqn have returned to the United Kingdom. With three Twin Pioneers theyhave been supporting the 1st King's Own Royal Border Regt and later the GrenadierGuards in internal security duties during the plebiscite to determine the country'sfuture. The three aircraft were flown home in mid-September and the main detachmentwas airlifted by Beverley from the Camer- oons to Nigeria and thence flown home byBritannia. In the first six months of their mission,which began in September last year, the detachment carried 54 patients and 142,3451bof freight, flew anti-smuggling sorties and carried mail to isolated Army units.Although pilots frequently had to fly in cloud at 4,000ft over mountainousterrain, or were sometimes forced down to tree-top height, only very few flights werestopped by weather. Members of the detachment had to cope with the Hamadan.a hot wind from the Sahara carrying with it hot dust and sand reducing visibility to100yd, and a wet season lasting five months. The squadron CO is Sqn LdrH. J. West and the detachment has been commanded by Sqn Ldr K. N. Rice. Reg GraveleyFIRST RAF winner of the George Cross, Reg Graveley died in hospital onSeptember 16 after a brief illness. As Fg Off Graveley, he won the GC (then theEGM) when a Fairey Battle pilot with 88 Sqn in France in September 1939. Whentwo of a formation of three Battles were "jumped" by Me 109s, Graveley forced-landed his blazing aircraft, extricated his badly wounded observer and returned forhis air gunner, only to find him dead. He received his award from King George VIat an "in the field" investiture at Plivot Aerodrome in December 1939. After thewar, Graveley became a test pilot with Gloster Aircraft. IN BRIEF Headquarters 11 Group. Fighter Command,moved to RAF Leconfield, Yorks. last week- end from Ouston, Northumberland. A silk ensign of 614 (County of Glamorgan)Sqn. RAuxAF, was laid up in the squadron chapel in Llandaff Cathedral on Battle ofBritain Sunday, September 17. Sqn Ldr H. M. Archer, on exchange postingwith the USAF, was co-pilot of the B-52 from which the X-15 was launched on its recentrecord flight. He graduated on No 16 course at the Empire Test Pilots' School. A Hastings and a Beverley took Arnhemveterans from Odiham on September 19 over the same route used to their dropping-zone onSeptember 17. 1944. Now with the 10th Parachute Battalion, TA. six of the formermembers of the wartime 1st Airborne Division parachuted into the DZ used in the historicassault, in a commemorative drop by 94 troops. Argosy seating for Transport Command, by Short Bros: at right, the 260-series seats seen installed. They can be folded and swung up ogainst the fuselage side to convert to freighter configuration Episcopalian Mach-buster: the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Rt Rev £. 8. Henderson, DSC, who is chaplain to the RNVR, in the cockpit of a Hunter T.8 at RNAS Yeovilton where he was flown at MI
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