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Indian Defence Minister Mr Y. B. Chavan visited 64 Sqn, RAF, at an airfield near Calcutta when the squadron took part in the lAF exercise Shiksha last month. Here, beyond a 64 Sqn Javelin and in front of lAF Hunters Mr Chavan, in white achkan, talks with the CO, Wg Cdr J. S. W. Bell. Second from the right is Air Marshal A. M. Engineer, Chief of Staff lAF. Wearing the turban is AVM Shivdev Singh, AOC lAF Central Air Command SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News AIRCENT's New Commander THE COMMAND of Allied Air Forces Central Europe passed last week into the hands of one of the founding fathers of integrated Western European defence, when Air Chief Marshal, Sir Edmund Hudleston, assumed command in succession to Air Chief Marshal Lord Bandon, who has retired. Sir Edmund, a tall, slim West Australian, was chairman of the Military Committee of the Brussels Treaty Organization in 1948 and later on the planning staff which led to the creation of SHAPE, of which AIRCENT is a component. As Deputy Chief of Staff to Gen Eisenhower when SHAPE was created in 1951 he was closely associated with the embryonic NATO organization. Sir Edmund graduated from Cranwell in 1928 and spent most of the '30s on the far- flung frontiers of empire. When the war began he was on detachment to the Turkish Air Force College as a flying and tactics instructor where he remained until 1941 when he joined HQ, RAF Middle East. As SASO he v as responsible for planning the air cover of the Sicily, Salerno and Anzio landings. Promoted one of the youngest RAF air vice-marshals he then took command of 2nd TAF, supporting with Spitfires and Typhoons the Canadian 1st Army on its drive into Holland and Germany. In 1946 Air Chief Marshal Hudleston took the Imperial Defence Course and joined the British Defence Research Policy Committee, from where he went to the Brussels Treaty Organization. Command of 1 Group, Bomber Command, preceeded his appointment to SHAPE, and then he returned to command 3 Group, Bomber Command. In 1956 he returned to the Imperial Defence College as an instructor and in September the following year was appointed Vice-Chief of the Air Staff. His appointment as AOC-in-C Transport Command in March last year completed a cycle for Sir Edmund, successively a fighter pilot, bomber group commander and strategic planner. He took command at a time when the command was expanding substantially and he has left it welded into a highly efficient machine. Last year Air Chief Marshal Hudleston was appointed Air Aide-de-Camp to the Queen. Ten Standards Awarded STANDARDS HAVE BEEN AWARDED to a further ten RAF squadrons, bringing to 105 the number so honoured by the monarch since standards were introduced by King George VI on April 1, 1943 to mark the 25th anniversary of the RAF. The latest recipients are as follows: 34 Sqn, stationed at Seletar with Beverleys; 44 Sqn, at Waddlngton with Vulcans; 50 Sqn, at Waddington with Vulcans; 90 Sqn, at Honington with Valiants; 92 Sqn, at Leconfield with Lightnings; 97 Sqn, at Walton with Canberras, Hastings and Varsities; 98 Sqn, at Watton with Can berras; 115 Sqn, at Watton with Varsities and Valettas; 139 Sqn, at Wittering with Victors and 206 Sqn, at St Mawgan with Shackletons. No Flights to the Fang Farriers FLIGHTS TO CITY DENTISTS for suffering Malayan aborigines in RAF and RMAF aircraft are to cease. The two air forces have recently made about 20 "toothache" flights a month at an annual cost of about £29,000. Now the service is to be replaced by a mobile dental unit with a staff of four. 982 FLIGHT International, 12 December I%$ AIR MARSHAL SIR JOHN GRANDY, AOC-in-C Bomber Command, was due to return this week from his first liaison visit to the United States since he assumed his com mand in September. Air Marshal Grandy left on December 3 to visit SAC head quarters at Offutt AFB, Nebraska, NORAD headquarters at Colorado Springs and the 1st Strategic Aerospace Division at Vandenberg AFB, Calif. AN EGYPTIAN AIR FORCE 11-14 transport carrying 13 military personnel landed by mistake at Lodar, in the South Arabian Fede ation, last week. Quick action by a Welsh Guards officer, who blocked its path with a vehicle, preventing it taking off when the pilot realized his mistake. Last reports from Aden suggested that the aircraft would be flown to Khormaksar by an RAF crew; others that it would be confiscated as a reprisal for the confiscation by Yemeni- Egyptian forces of lorries and arms from a joint Army-RAF convoy which strayed across the Yemeni border last June. THE LAST CANADAIR F-86 SABRES to serve with the RCAF were flown to Prestwick recently to await disposal. The Sabres came from No 439 ("Sabre Tooth Tiger") Sqn of No 1 Wing, RCAF, stationed at Marville, France. The squadron re-forms early in the new year with CF-104 Star- fighters as a strike-reconnaissance unit. FIGHTER FUNDS, common in Britain during the Second World War, have been started in India recently as a result of the drive to strengthen the IAF. In one ward of Bombay a citizens' committee has already begun to approach its target of Rs5m to buy one fighter. Money is also being raised for the same purpose by action groups in Kampala. The AOC-in-C of the Pakistan Air Force, Air Marshal Mohammed Asghar Khan, recently made a two-week visit to the USA as o guest of the USAF Chief of Staff, General Curtis Le May, during which the two commanders exchanged presentation crests. Here General Le May, an SAC deterrent cigar levelled at the Air Marshal's chest, receives the Pakistan Air Force crest
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