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FLIGHT International, 12 September 1963 612, 68 and Pensacola A 612 SQN REUNION is being held at the RAF Reserves Club, South Street, London Wl, on Saturday, November 9. Details from W. N. Parsons, "Wildcroft," Farm Lane, East Horsley, Surrey. THE NINETEENTH 68 SQN REUNION DINNER is being held at the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London Wl, on Saturday, October 19, at 7.30 for 8 p.m. Further details from Fit Lt N. A. Davies, St Mien, Southgate, Hornsea, E Yorks. THE 14TH ANNUAL PENSACOLA REUNION— for RAF and Fleet Air Arm personnel who served during the war at USN Air Station, Pensacola, Fla—is being held in London on Saturday, November 23. Cost is 8s, dress informal, and further particulars may be obtained from Sqn Ldr L. V. Armstrong, 47 Rutland Road, Wanstead, London Ell. 483 Five of the 15 Wellington and Charterhouse schoolboys who recently jumped from an RAF Beverley at Abingdon during a parachute training course. Left to right, they are John Thoytes, Henry Blanchard, Robert Churton and David Hughes of Wellington; and Robert Henley of Charter house New member of the RAF Middleton St George "Ten Ton Club," Mrs Diana Barnato Walker (see news-item below), looks at the certificate with which she was presented after flying with Sqn Ldr Ken Goodwin in a Lightning Trainer. A letter from Mrs Walker appears on page 473 THE AIR SECRETARY, Air Marshal Sir Wil liam L. M. MacDonald, has been promoted air chief marshal. THE CFS AEROBATIC TEAM, "The Red Peli cans," are giving a display today (Thursday, September 12) at St Helier airport, Jersey, CI, to commemorate the Battle of Britain. The show is also being visited by a Vulcan of 230 OCU at RAF Finningley. NO 21 SQN, based at RAF Eastleigh, Nairobi, has been presented with com memorative crests by the Kenya Police in recognition of the assistance given to their signals branch in maintaining communi cations in undeveloped areas during the past year. GP CAPT D. R. S. BADER, the distinguished former fighter pilot, is to receive the name- plate of the locomotive Fighter Pilot, one of the Battle of Britain class British Railway locomotives, in London tomorrow, Septem ber 13. He named this engine on September 19, 1947. At tomorrow's ceremony, the nameplate No 46 Sqn is to be received by the AOC-in-C Fighter Command. Air Marshal Sir Douglas Morris. The presentations are being made by a senior British Railways official. THE RAF BENEVOLENT FUND received £745 during the first six months of this year from unwanted foreign coins placed in collecting- boxes at London and other British airports. Air Marshal Sir John Whitley, Controller of the Fund, says that this was £300 more than the amount received in the corre sponding period of 1962. Sir John has re cently reported that the Fund spent £600,000 last year. THREE COLTISHALL AIRMEN—WO J. Smythe, Ch Tech R. Byers and Sgt B. Parkinson- have jointly been awarded £1,000 by the Air Ministry, on the recommendation of the Committee on Awards to Inventors, for an air portable instrument for checking Fire-streaks. It enables the missiles to be checked "on site" instead of being transported for servicing and it is officially estimated will "save the RAF many thou sands of pounds." Logging Ex-Service Veterans VOLUME n of Impressments Log, detailing civilian aircraft impressed for war service w 'th the RAF and Royal Navy, has rec ently been published by Mr Peter W. Moss, a member of Air-Britain. This Mosquito and camouflaged control tower present a wartime appearance, but the photograph was taken by reader R. W. Cranham at Bovingdon recently during the filming of sequences for "633 Squadron" to** L5 Mother RECENTLY Mrs Diana Barnato Walker, 45- anR°id mother of a 14-year-old son, flew KAF Lightning Trainer at over 1,000 the W M^ Walker> who is a member of . Vornen's Junior Air Corps, was given rral facilities by the Air Minister and in e lhe night from Middleton St George win 0Ic'Kany with ^n Ldr Kenneth Good-a,"» ihe afterwards described the aircraft * very easy to handle."
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