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1962
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264 FLIGHT International, 15 February 1962 preparation of training programmes and conversion of instructors. Over 800hr development flying has now been completed on the Gnat Trainer, which is powered by a Bristol Siddeley Orpheus 101 of 4,2301b thrust. This compares with 5,0001b for the Orpheus 803 used in the Fiat G.91 NATO lightweight fighter. At its lower rating, the trainer engine has reduced fuel consumption and will develop an increased overhaul life. Fifty production Gnat T.ls for the RAF are now on order, the first being due for delivery next month. An Avro Shackleton MR.2 of 38 Sqn over Malta, where yesterday (Feb 14) the squadron was to receive its standard from the Duke of Gloucester SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News Coastal Command Gnome-Whirlwinds WESTLAND GNOME-WHIRLWINDS (HAR.lOs), already in service with 225 Sqn of RAF Transport Command, are this month join ing Coastal Command. The first aircraft will go to die helicopter OTU at St Mawgan, to be used initially for crew conversion; later they will supplement and then replace the piston-engined Whirlwinds used by the search-and-rescue squadrons. AOC Hong Kong FROM MAY 27 Air Cdre J. N. H. Whitworth, CB, DSO, DFC, is to be Air Officer Command ing, RAF Hong Kong. He recently returned to England from Ghana, where he had been Air Chief of Staff, Ghana Air Force; prior to that he was commandant of the Central Flying School. Air Cdre Whitworth com manded RAF Scampton in 1943 when 617 Sqn was formed there for the attacks on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams; previously he had commanded No 78 and 35 Sqns on bomber operations. When he was a flying instructor at Oxford UAS in pre-war days, one of his pupils was the present Gp Capt Leonard Cheshire, vc. Gnats at CFS THE FIRST RAF FOLLAND GNAT T.l Was formally handed over last week (as briefly recorded in our news pages) by the director and general manager of Folland Aircraft, Mr D. G. Braid, to the Commandant of the Central Flying School, Air Cdre H. P. Connolly. During the next few months CFS are to receive a number of Gnat Trainers, which will be used for the ex amination of flying training techniques, Skybolt Team FIRST MEMBERS of the 200-strong RAF team forming the British Joint Trials Force for advanced testing of Skybolts for use with Vulcan 2s of Bomber Command at Eglin AFB, Fla, have now been selected. Task Force Commander is to be Wg Cdr C. E. Ness, who has been wing commander i/c operations at Waddington; technical opera tions controller is Sqn Ldr R. K. Hooks, who is already at Eglin; and die flight opera tions controller will be Sqn Ldr G. H. Moreau, for three years a member of the air plans staff at Bomber Command head quarters. The trials unit, which is to include representatives of the MoA and civilian contractors, will take part in the Skybolt test programme over the Atlantic Missile Range in conjunction with the USAF. Air Marshal G. A. Walker, AOC-in-C Flying Training Command, in the cockpit of the RAF's first Gnat Trainer (see "Gnats at CFS") The new Australian Minister for Air, Mr Leslie Bury (second from left), meeting Air board and Department of Air members in Canberra. Left to right are the CAS, Air Marshal V. £. Hancock; Senator Harrie Wade, formerly Minister for Air and now Minister of Health; and the department's secretary, Mr A. B. McFarlane FORMER CANADIAN MEMBERS of the Path finder force who met in a reunion at Edmonton, Alberta, received a cable from Sir Winston Churchill which read "your signal services rendered are cherished memories with me." COMMANDER S. J. A. RICHARDSON, RN, who as a member of the Admiralty's Air War fare Division did important work in helping to develop die Blackburn Buccaneer as a Naval strike aircraft, died recendy at the age of 39. One of his last appointments at sea was as Commander (Air) in HMS Victorious. Prior to his first tour at Admir alty he had commanded 827 Sqn. A £1,000 AWARD has been given by the Air Council Committee of Awards to Inventors to Sqn Ldr J. C. Dixon, technical staff officer at Bomber Command headquarters since July 1958, for his design of a simul taneous starter for all four engines of V-bombers. Based on this design, the command modification centre has produced "Simstart" trolleys in quantity.
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