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FLIGHT International, 18 April 1963 588a The RAF CAS-designate, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Elworthy, meets Gp Capt H. D. Marsh, acting OC Butterworth. during a recent visit to the RAAF base on a Far East tour period of three months, when the many facets of operating aircraft in the present operational environment were tested to the full." Presented to Bomber Command in 1955 by 460 Sqn, RAAF Association, in memory of squadron aircrew killed during the Second World War, the trophy is a 2ft high figure of an angel holding aloft a symbolic torch of life, surmounted by a ring bearing the number 460. SERVICE AVIATIO Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News Maintenance Command AOC-in-C THE NEW AOC-IN-C MAINTENANCE COMMAND, from June 4, will be AVM T. N. Coslett, CB, OBE, MiMechE, at present AOC 24 Group, who will have the acting rank of air marshal. He succeeds Air Marshal Sir Leslie Dalton- Morris, KBE, CB, who is retiring from the RAF. This year sees the 25th anniversary of the formation of Maintenance Com mand. Aden's Millionaire Argosies KHORMAKSAR-BASED ARGOSIES OF 105 SQN reached a route milestone on Friday, April 5, when the total distance flown by the squadron since they left England last June to join Air Forces Middle East exceeded a million miles. Since arriving in Aden just over nine months ago, 105—commanded by Wg Cdr VV. I. Harris, AFC—has flown a total of 4,780hr, carrying 10,264 passengers and :.?60,5371b of freight on flights in the Command area. To commemorate the million miles, one of the squadron Argosies took leading Arab personalities from Aden and the Federation of South Arabia on an 80min flight on April 5. RAF Argosies in Aden formed the subject of a colour feature in Flight International for December 6 last year. N-bombers for RAAF? i~ WAS REPORTED IN SYDNEY ON APRIL 7— by the aeronautical correspondent of the Sunday newspaper Sun-Herald—that senior Australian defence officials were consider ing British V-bombers as a possible interim strike force for the Royal Australian Air Force (this page, March 28). According to the correspondent, "stop-gap thinking" iiuj been forced on the RAAF "because oi the explosive political situation in South east Asia and the Soviet Union's re- equipment of the Indonesian Air Force with Tu-16 bombers and Mig-21 fighters." The correspondent added that if the V- bombers were chosen as a stop-gap, they u ould be equipped with Blue Steel. As the TSR.2 and TFX were still far from b*ing brought into service, "officers are discussing the idea of getting V-bombers :11 the Royal Air Force on some charter arrangement." At present, the only bombers operated by the RAAF are Canberras. "Johnny" Johnson's Aden Post AVM J. E. ("JOHNNY") JOHNSON, CBE, DSO, DFC, at present Senior Air Staff Officer at No 3 Group, Bomber Command, is to be AOC Air Forces Middle East (Aden). He succeeds AVM F. E. Rosier, CB, CBE, DSO, in October. AVM Johnson was one of the most famous RAF fighter pilots in the last war, winning three DSOs and two DFCs for operational prowess and being credited with 38 enemy aircraft destroyed and others damaged. AVM Rosier, when on fighter operations over Belgium in the earliest days of the war, had to bale out of a blazing aircraft then after spending some time in an Arras hospital was injured in a bombed train on his way back to Britain. Later he commanded 262 Wing in the Western Desert. 101's 460 Trophy NO 101 SQN HAS WON THE EFFICIENCY TROPHY competed for annually by V-force squadrons of RAF Bomber Command. Flying Vulcan B.ls and based at Waddington, 101 is commanded by Wg Cdr A. Griffiths. Runners-up were 50 Sqn, also Waddington- based, a Vulcan B.2 squadron commanded by Wg Cdr B. A. Primavesi. Air Ministry state that "the award of the trophy for this year was based on the results achieved by the squadrons in direct competition over a Gp Capt J. Finch, OC RAF Waddington, with the COs of three Vulcan squadrons based at the station (see news-item above)—from right to left, Wg Cdr A. Griffiths (101), Wg Cdr B. A. Primavesi (SO) and Wg Cdr F. R. iockyer (44) Cyprus and Singapore TWO AIR COMMODORES BECOME ACTING AVMS in new appointments they take up this summer. Air Cdre W. V. Crawford- Compton, CBE, DSO, DFC, a New Zealander who as an outstanding wartime Spitfire pilot was described as having "a rare zest for battle," becomes Senior Air Staff Officer, Near East Air Force, on June 1, having been with NEAF as Air Officer in charge of Administration since April last year; and Air Cdre H. G. Leonard-Williams, CBE, a signals specialist who has been Command Electronics Officer at Fighter Command since May 1961, is to be Air Officer in charge of Administration, Far East Air Force, from July 1. THE SEVENTH ANNUAL DINNER of the RAF Air Warfare & Flying Colleges' Associa tion is being held in the officers' mess, RAF Manby, Louth, Lines, on Tuesday, June 11. A CANTILEVER HANGAR 725ft long and 158ft wide is to be built at RAF Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, by Tees Side Bridge and Engineering Works, Middlesborough, a member of the Dorman Long group, under a £500,000 Air Ministry contract. THE SEVENTEENTH 619 SQN REUNION DINNER is being held at Ye Old Bell Hotel, Fleet Street, London EC4, on Saturday, May 4, at 6.30 for 7.30 p.m. Applications for tickets (17s 6d each) should be sent to P. S. Osborne, Bernard Works, Sylvester Gar dens, Sheffield 14, Yorks, by April 30. AN AUSTRALIAN FAA PILOT 30 YEARS AGO and latterly the Royal Australian Navy's senior commander, Cdr Frank G. Crow- ther has recently retired after 42 years' RAN service. Initially he flew Supermarine Seagulls from HMAS Albatross in the origi nal Australian Fleet Air Arm.
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