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1961
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798 FLIGHT, 23 November 1961 SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News New AMP A CHANGE in the Air Council has beenannounced: Air Marshal Sir Walter Cheshire, KCB, CBE, is to become AirMember for Personnel from December 11 in succession to Air Marshal Sir ArthurMcDonald, KCB, AFC, who is relinquishing his appointment for health reasons. AirMarshal Cheshire has been AOC Malta and Deputy C-in-C (Air), Allied Forces Medi-terranean, since May 1959. Air Marshal McDonald became AMP at the beginningof October 1959. "Sky Help" Statistics WITH a reduction in the immediateneed for an airlift of stores and troop reinforcements to Belize in BritishHonduras, the part played by the RAF— known as Operation "Sky Help"—is beingdiminished. The daily commitment amounts now to two sorties by Shackletons andHastings between Palisadoes Airport at Kingston in Jamaica (where 38 Group ofTransport Command set up an air transport operation centre) and Belize. Shackletons, Hastings and Britanniashave since November 1 been actively en- gaged in flying freight, medical supplies,stores and passengers from the UK to Kingston and between Kingston and Belize.In addition to these aircraft, the Air Ministry chartered some civil machines toassist in the airlift. The last aircraft, which left the UK lastThursday, brought the total load flown to Kingston to 293,0001b and 750 passengers.Nearly 30 sorties were made between Kingston and Belize and despite badweather early in the operations and restric- tions at Belize airport, all flights were First nonstop UK- Australia flight, by Vulcan of 6/7 Sqn: Sir Harry Broadhurst, Avro managing direc- tor, presenting trophy to Wg Cdr Bastard successful. On their return flights to the UK, Transport Command aircraft have evacuated wives and children of Govern- ment personnel made homeless. Shackle- tons of three Coastal Command Squadrons, Nos 42, 204 and 210, were engaged in "Sky Help"; and Britannias of 99 and 511 Squad- rons and Hastings of 24 (Commonwealth) Sqn, Transport Command. DHC-4 Caribou for the Ghana Air Force, seen at Downsview, Ont, earlier this year 11,6401b of food was landed. The squadron, which has four Twin Pioneers and a staff of 37, was until recently commanded by Sqn Ldr W. J. Bishop, who formed the squadron at Abingdon (Flight August 21, 1959). He has now returned to the UK and handed over command to Sqn Ldr G. M. Scarrott. Plymouth to Ankara A CENTO (Central Treaty Organization)post has been announced for AVM L. W. C. Bower, CB, DSO, DFC, at presentAOC No 19 Group, Coastal Command. He is to be British representative on thePermanent Military Deputies Group of the organization, with the acting rank of airmarshal, and expects to go to Ankara at the end of April. AVM Bower has com-manded 19 Group since May 1959. He was Beneficent PioneersT HE squadron may be small, but itcarried out this mammoth task magnificently": these were the words usedby a senior Kenya Government official to describe the supply-dropping operationcarried out in Kenya by 21 Sqn, to aid Africans marooned by floods in East Africa."Such flood relief would not have been possible without the Twin Pioneers," saidthe official in reference to the aircraft which since Operation Tana Flood began in earlyOctober flew a total of 257hr on 146 sorties and dropped 254,6371b of food. Another previously Deputy Commander-in-Chief,Middle East Air Force. Thirteenth ROC HeadquartersF IRST Royal Observer Corps under-ground Group Headquarters to be built in the London and Home Countiesarea, and the thirteenth to be constructed, was opened on Saturday last by the Mayorof Watford, Councillor J. R. Hicks. Thirty- one of these headquarters and some 1.500underground monitoring posts are planned. Foundations of the new building atWatford, the HQ of 5 Group, lie some 20ft below ground. The roof is heavily rein-forced with a high degree of protection against fall-out. Facilities provided enableobservers to live in it "comfortably and healthily for a considerable time," accord-ing to an Air Ministry description. A GPO telephone exchange is connected to 150 lineswhich can be automatically switched to ROC posts and control centres and toFighter Command headquarters. IN BRIEF Units accidentally omitted from the Battleof Britain memorial window in Westminster Abbey—including Nos 235, 236 and 248 Sqns—are now being incorporated. A Westland Wasp is to operate in an anti-submarine role from HMS Ashanti, first of the new Tribal class of general-purpose frigates,which today (November 23) was being accepted for service with the Royal Navy. This is thefirst time a helicopter has been carried as an integral part of a ship's armament. Royal Air Force Britannias and Canberras in part of the main Bristol Aircraft assembly hall at Filton where the Britannias are undergoing major overhauls and the Canberras are being modified
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