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1962 - 0190.PDF
192 FLICfi Intern 1 Feb 196: Westland Whirlwinds from the Commando carrier HfAS "Bulwark" on their way for a formation flight over Fremantle, WA, during a training cruise in Australian waters SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News ATC Twenty-first THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, Air Commodore- in-Chief of the Air Training Corps, is presenting the Corps with a banner on February 4—the eve of its 21st anniver sary. This will be re;e jd from the Duke during a special thank g ving service at St Clement Danes in the Strand, the RAF church, which provides a fitting setting for the ceremony: between 1941 and 1945 the ATC provided more than 100,000 recruits for the RAF and during the war more than 500 ex-cadets received awards for gallantry. The banner is to be accepted from the Duke by Cdt WO David Hood of No 1141 (No 6 Edinburgh) Sqn, who was first recipient of a Duke of Edinburgh gold award. The Air Training Corps was formed by royal warrant on February 5, 1941, and its first Air Commodore-in-Chief was King George VI. Its wartime peak strength was reached in 1942 when there were 210,000 cadets. Among ex-cadets who gained awards for gallantry was Fit Sgt A. L. Aaron, DFM, pilot of a Stirling, who won the VC posthumously. Today the Corps is about 30,000 strong and is administered from Headquarters Air Cadets at White Waltham, where a staff of RAF officers is headed by Air Cdre A. G. Dudgeon, CBE, DFC, AOC Air Cadets and Commandant of the Air Training Corps. Flying experience is given at 13 air experience flights with 50 Chipmunks and there are 27 gliding schools with 130 gliders. RAF Comet 4Cs DELIVERIES OF D.H. COMET 4CS to RAF Transport Command have begun with the arrival of the first at Lyneham, Wilts, where these aircraft are to be operated by 216 Sqn. Five 4Cs are scheduled to be in service by the summer, supplementing the ten Mk 2s which the squadron have been using since June 1956. The latter aircraft carry 44 passengers and a crew of five over ranges of 2,000 miles at a normal operating speed of 480 m.p.h.; the new versions, with 10,5001b thrust Rolls-Royce Avons as against Avons of 7,3001b thrust, have carrying capacity for 80 passengers at an operating speed of 500 m.p.h. over a pos sible range of 3,000 miles. The RAF version of the 4C is similar to the civil version but has backward-facing seats. Director of Organization FROM TODAY (February 1) Air Cdre C. K. Foxley-Norris, DSO, OBE, becomes Director of Organization at Air Ministry. He recently completed the Imperial Defence College course and before that took the Senior Officers' War Course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Prior to that he commanded RAF Stradishall and then West Mailing. Queen's Flight Captain THERE is TO BE a change in command of the Queen's Flight: Air Cdre Sir Edward Fielden, KCVO, CBE, DFC, AFC, is retiring shortly from the post of captain and also as an Extra Equerry to the Queen. His successor as captain of the flight is Gp Cap: A. D. Mitchell, cvo, DFC, AFC, who is an ADC to the Queen and at present commands RAF Cottesmore. AOC MARITIME AIR COMMAND, RCAF, Air Cdre W. I. Clements recently visited Kinloss and Ballykelly on a liaison visit to RAF Coastal Command. IT is WITH REGRET that we have to re cord that AVM H. H. MacL. Fraser, CB, who in 1940 was made first Director of Military Co-operation at the Air Ministry, died recently at the age of 66. He became Director-General of Repair and Main tenance at the MAP in 1944. He retired from the RAF at the end of 1945. AVM P. G. Wykeham, AOC 38 Group (right, in flying suit with group captain's insignia) after he had flown on a Hunter ground-attack sortie from Waterbeach in Exercise "Life-line." With him is Gp Capt R. F. H. Gierke, the station commander. Pilot of the Hunter 7.7, which was from I Sqn, was Fl Lt D. Allison Air Cdre Sir Edward Fielden's retirement from the captaincy of the Queen's Flight is referred to in a news-item above
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