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1963 - 1248.PDF
~ ^ ^E^fc *JSi^ BCt^^^Hta 1 Jmw •;:f;^ • ' ' •••:•••'"'"•'-" : • • '• • :. •: : • • : : ERVICE AVIATION.. "The Army owes nothing to the Royal Nayy when it comes to helicopter humour": a "bullfight" with an Alouette of 6 Flight ...... . , .., . ' ° Flight International photographs to suit the limited weather environment. Off-beat items in which an Alouette was the main performer showed that the Army owes nothing to the Royal Navy when it comes to helicopter humour, and there was some clever crazy flying in an Auster 9; while one operational aspect of Army aviation was depicted by an aircraft of this type directing a simulated shoot of 105mm guns. Against a backcloth of rain and cloud, the display gave a useful picture of the agility of AAC machines and their ability to operate close to the ground within a confined area. One point of pride among the staff was that the show was provided entirely from Army Air Corps Centre resources. There is increasing emphasis in the AAC upon helicopter flying, because proposals to give certain arms of the Army their own aircraft lead inevitably to the conclusion that rotary-wing types are of more use in forward areas where landing-strips are unavailable. The resultant increased "helicopterization" of the Corps has led to numbers going up about 25 per cent on flying training courses at Middle Wallop, headquarters of the Army Air Corps, since May this year. This has been partly due to fixed-wing pilots of the Corps coming back after a tour of duty elsewhere to receive rotary-wing conversion. One thing that has been discovered in training is that it is harder to fail a pupil on helicopters than on fixed-wing aircraft. If a psychological graph were plotted of training progress, it would show deep depression before first solo, a rise for a Brigadier P. W. Mead, Commandant, Army Air Corps Centre, at the rain-washed AAC Day Hiller, basic trainers for fixed-wing and helicopter flying; Auster and Beaver of the Advanced Fixed-wing, and Skeeter of the Advanced Rotary-wing, Flights at Middle Wallop; Scout and Beagle-Wallis Autogyro of 651 Light Aircraft Sqn and Alouette of 6 Flight. Subsequently all these types gave individual demonstrations of their capa bilities, the pilots showing very neat techniques in well-judged displays tailored Not an artistic sea-sand- rotor helicopter study but a rescue by a Whirlwind from RAF Tangmere of 30 London schoolchildren cut off by the tide below Splcshpoint Cliff near Eastbourne, Sussex, last week depicted in a news agency photograph 76 FLIGHT International, 11 July 1963 while thereafter, then another dip before rising again and levelling-off towards the end of the course. Commanded by Brigadier Peter Mead. the Army Air Corps has 25 flights, operat ing all over the world where British interests are engaged. In the recent Brunei operations, AAC aircraft flew 358 sorties in the first 22 days; in Kenya last year they assisted in flood relief; and when Britain was under snow last winter an Army Beaver operated from Middle Wallop on skis. THE INDIAN AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF, Air Marshal Aspy Engineer, has been visiting Soviet Air Force establishments during a Russian tour. THE RAAF is TO EQUIP its Lockheed Hercules transport aircraft with Doppler naviga tional equipment at a cost of £320,000. THE AOC-IN-C MAINTENANCE COMMAND, Air Marshal T. N. Coslett, was visiting No 14 MU at Carlisle yesterday (July 10) to see the work of the unit. THE 18 DHC CARIBOU ordered for the RAAF (World News, last week) are to be ferried by RAAF crews from Canada to Australia next year. The Minister for Air, Mr David Fairbairn, said recently that the aircraft were expected to arrive in Australia before the middle of next year. BRITANN1AS OF RAF TRANSPORT COMMAND last week flew men of the 2nd Battalion, The Green Jackets, from RAF Lyneham to British Guiana, where they were being sent because of a "deterioration in the situation." The three aircraft were routed by way of Newfoundland and Barbados. A HASTINGS OF 48 SQN, TG525, recently made the 500th transport flight by FEAF aircraft from Singapore to Borneo since the Brunei revolt broke out last December. The same machine made the first flight, on December 8, 1962. Since that date, some 11,000 passengers and nearly 2mlb of freight have been carried. THE RECENTLY COMPILED HISTORY OF 107 Sqn is being published shortly and ex- members who have contributed to it will receive a copy. Fit Lt B. S. Northway writes from RAF Feltwell, Thetford, Nor folk, to say that anyone else who would like a copy should write to him at Feltwell and send 9d in stamps to cover postage. RNAS ABBOTSINCH is closing on October 31 and the Flag Officer Air (Home), Vice- Admiral Sir John Hamilton, was visiting the station yesterday to say goodbye to personnel. This early date had been chosen "to enable a greater number of officers and men to participate than would be possible later." Abbotsinch is to be Glasgow's new civil airport (Flight International, June 13), replacing Renfrew.
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