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7(7//7" International, 18 July 1963 110a rtnight previously and would take about tee months to complete. It remained the Hmiralty's intention, he added, to equip tibal class frigates with Wasps by the end [this year. fo RAF F-104s TW AIR MINISTER was asked in a recent irliamentary question whether Canberras Germany were adequate for the strike le, and what plans he had to purchase number of F-104s until the TSR.2 en- :red squadron service. Mr Fraser's written :ply stated that Canberras would fulfil the trike role adequately until TSR.2s came to service in the later 1960s, and that he ad no plans to purchase any F-104s. CAF Searchmasters HE FIRST QUALIFIED SEARCHMASTERS re cently graduated from the new Search and Rescue School at RCAF Vancouver and (have returned to their units "fully able to brganize and conduct searches wherever (aircraft or marine incidents occur." Drawn [from rescue co-ordination centres and sub- centres across Canada, officers on the first course undertook a week's intensive train ing which ended with a simulated search for a missing aircraft. No 267 Sqn History A HISTORY OF 267 SQN—referred to on this page on June 20 under the heading Pegasus and Steedman"—is being re written by Fg Off J. M. C. Manson, who would be glad to hear from past members of the squadron who have photographs or relevant information. "All material," he states, "will be received with thanks and returned if so required." Fg Off Manson's address is 267 Sqn, Royal Air Force, Benson, Oxon. AVM Jack Harris "AIR VICE-MARSHAL HARRIS was held in considerable affection throughout the RAF Regiment, of which he was one of the architects." So runs an Air Ministry tri- fiVe CF-I04s of the Central Experimental and Proving Establishment (CEPE) at RCAF Cold Lake, Alberta, flying over the Primrose Lake weapons range. The aircraft are undergoing systems evalua tion at the establishment bute to AVM Jack Harris, CB, CBE, who died at his home at East Horsley, Surrey, on July 9 at the age of 59. An Australian, he was the first Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment to have been a Regi ment officer, his predecessors having come from the General Duties branch. AVM Harris, who retired in October 1961, was chairman of Dorking branch of the RAFA. Helping Polish Airmen AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR HUGH PUGHE LLOYD, GBE, KCB, MC, DFC, has appealed for dona tions for the Polish Air Force Association Benevolent Fund, which exists for the same purposes among Polish ex-airmen as the RAF Benevolent Fund for former RAF members. In the course of a letter to Flight International Sir Hugh Writes:— "Though the Poles finished the war with us they were fighting before we started; every eighth pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain was a Pole; the Poles served in every theatre of war and every Command during the war; they had 14 operational squadrons and 1,241 Polish airmen died on service; since then many have died as a result of the war." The Association's income is derived from donations and voluntary membership fees and it spends £5,000 a year in helping those in need. Contributions from those who can help should be sent to Air Chief Marshal Lloyd at 14 Collingham Gardens, London SW5. THE RAF BENEVOLENT FUND expended £148,059 during the first quarter of 1963 on the relief of distress or need among serving and ex-Service members of the RAF, WRAF, their families and depen dents. There were 832 more awards than in the corresponding period of 1962. AVM BENJAMIN BALL, CB, CBE, BA, is tO be Senior Air Staff Officer, Technical Training Command, from July 27. A signals specialist, he has been at SHAPE since March 1960 as Deputy Chief Signals Officer. Whirlwinds of 846 Naval Air Sqn flying over the mosque at Brunei, North Borneo. With 84S 'uurW,.!.c.h.IS quipped with Wessex helicopters, 846 are embarked in the Commando carrier J Albion." At the time this photograph was taken both squadrons were based ashore at ^chmg, Sarawak far i Fg Off C. D. Stewart, navigator at No 6 Sqn at Akrotiri, Cyprus, with the mural he has recently completed in the squadron crew room showing most of the aircraft types used by 6 Sqn since its formation in 1916 THE AIR MINISTER, MR HUGH FRASER, has appointed Mr J. D. Bryars as his principal private secretary. THE RNZAF ORDER for long-range transport aircraft is for three Lockheed C-130E Hercules and not for three C-130Bs, as stated on July 4 (World News, page 3) on information received. TWO TARGET-TOWING METEORS from RAF Changi, Singapore, recently went on loca tion to Kuala Lumpur for a film called The Year of the Dragon. This is set in the days of the Malayan emergency and the aircraft, flown by Fit Lts G. Bradford and A. Thomas, were required to destroy a "terrorist" bamboo bridge and adjoining hide-out.
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