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FLIGHT International, 29 August 1963 409 Air Marshal Sir Ronald Lees, new Commander-in- Chief, RAF Germany, in specting a guard of honour on his arrival at Gatow airfield for a seven-day official visit to Berlin, his first since assuming command SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News 4th ATAF Chief of Staff AIR CDRE EDWIN M. REYNO, AFC, TD, who has been Deputy Vice-Chief of the Air Staff, RCAF, since December 1960, is taking up a new appointment this month as Chief of Staff at 4th Allied Tactical Air Force HQ at Ramstein, Germany, with the acting rank of air vice-marshal. He was a fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain, having gone overseas early in 1940 with 1 (later re-numbered 401), Sqn. He returned to Canada in 1941 and was subsequently awarded the Air Force Cross for his services as a flying instructor under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Overwing Overflying OVERWING TANKS, whose basic function is to extend the aircraft's range for ferrying purposes, have been undergoing develop ment trials on an English Electric Lightning F.3 from Warton, Lanes (picture, page 336). Jettisonable if so required, the tanks are complementary to in-flight refuelling, which is effected through a detachable probe fitted to the starboard wing. of Staff Committee and the US Joint Chiefs of Staff respectively. The total area of the North American Air Defence Command is divided into air defence regions, each with an operational command post as its regional headquarters. Each region is divided into air defence sectors within which the com mander is responsible for all air defence actions. "At each of the headquarters responsible for exercising control over significant forces or airspace of both Canada and the United States, the staff of the headquarters is composed of both Canadian and United States officers, and the commander and his deputy are not from the same country. There are some 400 RCAF officers and men in NORAD regional and sector head quarters in the United States." Whitehall Commemoration AN INNOVATION in Battle of Britain commemorations at the Air Ministry in Whitehall next month (September 9 to 15) will be a 15-minute film, with commentary, which includes sequences taken during the battle and progresses through the years to show scenes depicting the present-day RAF. Another feature of the large exhi bition of aircraft, models and photographs (open to the public daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., admission free) will be a display of survival equipment carried by V-bombers. Am CHIEF MARSHAL SIR WALTER MERTON, formerly Air Council Member for Supply and Organization, is to be Inspector-General of Civil Defence from January 1 next year. GP OFF v. M. ASHWORTH, who trained as a parachutist with the RAF para-medical team, has been appointed Matron-in-Chief of Princess Mary's RAF Nursing Service, with the acting rank of air commandant. RAF SHACKLETONS AND RAAF NEPTUNES are taking part in a maritime exercise in the seas between Malaya and Borneo. Code- named Operation Test Tube, this exercise continues until September 5. The Shackle- tons are from 205 Sqn, based at RAF Changi, Singapore. GP CAPT E. B. HALE, DFC, CD, RCAF, is going to Allied Air Forces Central Europe HQ at Fontainebleau, France, this month as Chief of Plans and Policies, with the acting rank of air commodore. Formerly Deputy Director, Combat Operations Centre, NORAD Headquarters, Colorado Springs, he has been attending the National Defence College at Kingston, Ont. THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REUNION OF MRES (Missing Research Enquiry Service) RAF officers will be held in London on Saturday, October 26. Full details from Sqn Ldr P. E. Laughton-Bramley, MBE, "Haldon," Night ingale Avenue, West Horsley, near Leather- head, Surrey (East Horsley 3255 or KNI 9181), enclosing s.a.e. Reunions of MRES, whose task it was to trace missing aircrew, are held annually on the same night in different parts of the world. RCAF and NORAD SPEAKING OF THE RCAF ROLE in North American air defence, the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal C. R. Dunlap, recalled in a recent statement to the Special Committee on Defence that until 1957 Canada and the United States each maintained their own fully autonomous air defence systems. But in that year it was mutually agreed that air defence of the Canada/US region was a single, indivisible problem that could only be adequately dealt with by an integrated command. Air Marshal Dunlap continued: "NORAD is an integrated command, responsible for operational control of all air defence forces directly involved in what has become known as the 'aerospace' defence of Canada and the United States, including Alaska. These forces include intercepter squadrons, ground-to-air missile squadrons, radar and other sensor systems and operational control centres. The Commander-in-Chief is responsible equally to the Governments of Canada and the United States, through the Canadian Chiefs Mosquito 77.35 TH998 being loaded into a USAF C-124 Globemaster at RAF Dishforth for delivery to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, having been presented to them by the Air Council (this page, last week) •
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