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560 A Belvedere from Odi- ham airlifting a Land Rover in a demonstra- tion last week at Chadwick End, near Solihull, Warwicks FLIGHT, 5 October 1961 IN BRIEF Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Pike,Chief of the Air Staff, on a recent visit to Berlin placed a wreath on the memorial atTempelhof Airport to those who lost their lives in the Berlin airlift. SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News Ministry Radio DirectorA T present a Director of ElectronicsResearch and Development at the MoA, Air Cdre A. G. P. Brightmore is tobe Director of Radio at Air Ministry from November 1. He was first commissionedin 1938 in 504 (County of Nottingham) Sqn, RAuxAF, later transferring to theTechnical Branch. Whirlwinds for 110O NLY RAF helicopter squadron inMalaya, No 110 recently completed its second year of operations at RAAFButterworth by lifting its 10,000th soldier into the jungle. Since August 1959 thesquadron, commanded by Sqn Ldr Cedric Symons and operating Sycamores, has alsobrought out 600 casualties from jungle landing zones to hospitals and lifted 300,000lb of freight. 110 is shortly to be re- equipped with Whirlwind 10s. Weather Centre MoveWHAT is described as "an almost complete transfer of operations" bythe Meteorological Office from Dunstable to new headquarters at Bracknell took placeon September 30. The new Bracknell centre is to consolidate functions hitherto sharedbetween London, Harrow and Dunstable. The Meteorological Office organization hashitherto consisted of the central forecast office, communication centre and some re-search branches. Under one roof at Brack- nell now will be housed the office of theDirector-General (Sir Graham Sutton, FRS), the central forecast office, communicationscentre, offices of the Director of Research and the Director of Services, the library andresearch laboratories. The central forecast office caters for all weather forecast require-ments in the United Kingdom, except those for aviation, which are done mainly atLondon Airport and Prestwick by Meteoro- logical Office staff. Ghana AccidentA N interim report on the accident to aGhana Air Force aircraft in Central Ghana on August 31 states that the RAFpilot, Wg Cdr I. G. White, probably lost his life through trying to rescue his passen-gers. Wg Cdr White, ''who was apparently uninjured at the time," escaped from theburning aircraft after it had crashed, but returned to the pilots' compartment andrescued Brig Joseph Michel, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat. The brigadier, asenior Ghana Army officer who had just been appointed UN Chief of Staff in theCongo, died later of his injuries. According to the report, after rescuing the brigadierWg Cdr White returned to the passenger compartment and only by repeated assur-ance from other passengers that all were safe could he be prevented from enteringthe aircraft. Wg Cdr White was flown back to England for treatment for his burns butdied in hospital at Halton. He was 42 and had been seconded to the Ghana AirForce in August last year. Roses and TigersAN RAF station "where roses grow all the year round and tigers chase wildpigs among the strawberry beds" is to stay open because of the "solid contribution" itmakes to the health and fitness of airmen and airwomen serving in the Far East AirForce. It had been considered for closure on economic grounds. Since 1947, some20,000 members of the RAF and WRAF have passed through tough jungle familiari-zation courses at the station, Fraser's Hill— 4,600ft up in Selangor State. The courses,officially known as ground service training courses, are undertaken halfway througha 2^-year overseas tour, main object being to tone up personnel for the second half oftheir tour. It is reported from Wellington that 75 SqnRNZAF, a Canberra unit based on Singapore, is to be withdrawn as an economy measure. RN and Royal Marine helicopter pilots forHMS Albion, the second Commando carrier, are receiving their basic helicopter trainingwith British United Airways. No 5003 Airfield Construction Sqn havecompleted a new reception centre at RAF Gutersloh in Northern Germany for the startof an extended trooping programme, by Vis- counts of BUA, from last Monday. Representatives from local councils visitedthe Central Flying School at Little Rissington on September 27 to see for themselves some-thing of the work of the CFS, following local complaints about traffic noise. Third of the Royal Navy's guided-missiledestroyers, HMS Kent was launched by HRH Princess Marina, at Belfast on September 27.The destroyer's armament includes a Seaslug system and two Seacat systems. She is to carrya Wessex helicopter for anti-submarine duties. This year's dinner of the Specialist NavigationAssociation will be held at the Royal Air Force Club, 128 Piccadilly. London Wl, onSaturday, November 25, at 7.30 for 8 p.m., preceded by a meeting at 7 p.m. Tickets(£2 each) are available from Fit Lt B. P. Earle, RAF Flying College, Manby, Louth,Lines. A Naval Whirlwind of 848 Squadrontransferred meteorological storm warning equipment weighing 8121b from the oldterminal building to the roof of the new operations building at Singapore Airportrecently. The pilot was Lt Cdr T. Kinna, squadron CO, assisted by Naval Airman G.Booth. The fourteenth Tempsford reunion, opento RAF and WRAF personnel who served with 138 and 161 Sqns (special duties), isbeine held at Williamsons Tavern, Bow Lane. Cheapside, London EC4, at 6.30 for 7.30 p.m.on Friday, November 10. Dress is lounge suits; price of tickets £1 2s 6d; and the honsecretary Sqn Ldr A. Firth (Ret), 103 Swan- land Road, Hessle, East Yorkshire. Look.'ng over a US Army Iroquois at the Bell Helicopter Co plant, Fort Worth, Texas: the RAAF pro- curement team who have been laying the groundwork for an order for several 204 8s. Members are Sqn LdrsC.W. Richardson, S.C. Medley, R. Scott and R. J. Honsen; Fit Lt R. G. Berriman; Fit Sgt W. . Couson and Sgt C. W. Raston
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