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1963 - 0925.PDF
SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News Salute from Kentucky EIGHT LIGHTNINGS AND EIGHT JAVELINS, the former coming from Nos 111 and 56 Sqns and the latter from 41 Sqn, are to fly over London in a birthday salute to the Queen next Saturday (June 8), Her Majesty taking the salute from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. The flypast will be led by Wg Cdr B. H. Howard, OC Flying Wing, Wattisham, and among the Javelin pilots will be Lt-Col J. W. Eagle, USAF, from Loyall, Kentucky, who is with 41 Sqn on an exchange posting. Hopsten Contest INTRUDER AIRCRAFT OF 2ATAF AND 4ATAF —Canberra B(I).6s and 8s, F-84Fs and F-lOODs—are taking part in the second NATO Aerial Tactical Weapons Meet, being held at the German Air Force base, Hopsten, near Rheine, West Germany, from June 14 to 28 under the sponsorship of Allied Air Forces Central Europe. The 2ATAF team will be made up of RAF, RNAF and Belgian Air Force units, the 4ATAF team of USAF, West German and French Air Force units. Each ATAF will fly 110 missions, and the meet is designed to test their capability in simulated delivery of nuclear weapons, skip bombing, delivery of conventional weapons at low altitude, air-to-ground rocketry and strafing. At the end of the competition the Broadhurst Trophy, donated by the Hawker Siddeley Group, will be presented to the winning team by Air Chief Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst, former AAFCE commander. Dardanelles, Scillies and "Bismarck" THE THREE COASTAL COMMAND SQUADRONS —203, 204 and 210—which, as recorded on this page last week, are receiving standards from Princess Margaret at RAF Ballykelly today (June 6) have all had exciting epi sodes in their history. It was with 203 that Sqn Cdr Bell Davies won the VC, for landing his single-seater Nieuport under enemy fire in the Dardanelles to pick up another pilot. Sunderlands of 204 Sqn took part in the Kensington Court rescue off the Scillies early in the Second World War, crew from the torpedoed vessel being ferried to the aircraft in rubber dinghies; and Catalinas of 210 took part in the 1941 sinking of Bismarck, the ship's name appear ing among their battle honours. Ex-apprentice Air Commodore GP CAPT L. H. MOULTON, DFC, who joined the RAF at 17 as an aircraft apprentice, became acting air commodore on Tuesday, June 4, when he took up the post of Command Signals Officer, Fighter Command. He has been OC No 2 School of Technical Training at Cosford since 1961. After his apprenticeship, Gp Capt Moulton reached the rank of sergeant as an instrument maker, then became a sergeant pilot in 1938. Subsequently commissioned, 896 FLIGHT International, 6 June 1963 "Caribbean Wingover,"by Fit SgtJ. Merryshaw of 120 Sqn, RAF Kinloss, which won first prize in the air-to-air class in the 1963 Coastal Command photographic competition in 1941, he won the DFC when flying Wellesleys with 14 Sqn in the East African campaign. THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER is to visit RAF Benson on Tuesday, June 11, and during a 30-minute flying display of Transport Com mand aircraft will see a demonstration by the VC10, flown by Vickers' chief test pilot Mr E. B. Trubshaw, who when serving in the RAF on the staff of the Queen's Fligkt flew the duke as one of his passengers. DURHAM UAS won the Reid Trophy com petition at RAF Topcliffe on May 18 and now go forward to compete for the Hack Trophy. Leeds were second, Hull (the holders) third and Nottingham fourth. LATE ACCEPTANCES for next Saturday's forty-sixth 46 Sqn reunion dinner (Park Lane Hotel, London Wl, 6 for 7 p.m.) may be communicated to Sqn Ldr T. C. Woods, RAF Hemswell, near Gainsborough, Lines (Hemswell 256). WG CDR R. P. BEAMONT, DSO, OBE, DFC, special director and manager (flight operations), English Electric Aviation Ltd, presented a silver model of a Lightning to the Officers' Mess, RAF Leconfield, on May 22 on behalf of the company. Two Lightning F.2 squadrons, Nos 19 and 92, are based at the station. A SILVER MODEL OF AN ARGOSY was recently presented to 105 Sqn at RAF Khormaksar, Aden, by Air Cdre W. Wynter-Morgan, Services Liaison Officer, Whitworth Gloster Aircraft, on behalf of the company and received by Wg Cdr W. I. Harris on behalf of the squadron. In April, 105 became the first RAF Argosy squadron to complete 5,000hr operational flying. They had also (this page, April 18) flown more than a million miles. Maj K. K. Horn, first CO of S4 Sqn, seen with the present CO, Sqn Ldr C. P. Francis, on the occasion of the recent standard presentation— by Maj Horn—to the squadron at Waterbeach (this page, April 25)
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