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iiLHT International, 27 February 1964 341 or, Lig Ian Gong through the motions, two Valiant air re* veiling tankers of 90 Sqn, bomber Command, the customers how it should be done and up the positions of supplier and supplied at ltitude of3S,0O0ft. Following closely was a tning T.4 of 111 Sqn carrying photographer Ian Macdonald. bomber Command's tanker force now frequently supports fighter squadrons in overseas deployments, in addition to providing service for the V-force bombers Fifty Years of Naval Aviation NAVAL AIR COMMAND HQ is tlOW busy organizing the Fleet Air Arm Review, to be held at RNAS Yeovilton on May 28 to mark the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Naval Air Service. The Duke of Edinburgh has said he will attend. The review is likely to consist of a mass launch, fly-past and recovery of Buccaneers, Scimitars, Sea Vixens, Sea Hunters and Gannets, together with Wasp and Wessex helicopters. There will also be demon- strations of an assault landing and of carrier-deck parking. It has not yet been decided whether the review will be generally open to the public, but those who can show a particular interest in attending can obtain tickets from the Secretary, FAA Review 1964, Staff of the Flag Officer, Naval Air Command, Wyke- ham Hall, Lee-on-Solent, Hants. During his visit, the Duke of Edinburgh will open the Fleet Air Arm Museum being established at Yeovilton. Initial complete aircraft exhibits include an Attacker, a Sea Fury, a Seafire, a Corsair and a Martlet. A Swordfish will be ready in time for the Review and a Walrus later in the summer. .An Admiralty spokesman has emphasized that the review will not affect the holding of the normal RNAS Yeovilton Air Day, to which the public is admitted, later in the summer. lightnings to Leuchars TOMORROW, 74 SQUADRON—"THE TIGERS"— commanded by Sqn Ldr P. G. Botterill and equipped with Lightning F.ls, will move from RAF Coltishall to RAF Leuchars. For the first time Fighter Command will have based in Scotland aircraft with a sustained supersonic capability. Already at Leuchars is 23 Sqn, equipped with Javelins. No 74 Sqn was the RAF's first Lightning squadron and in 1962 provided Fighter Command's primary display aerobatic team. Coltishall will now become the base of 226 OCU, equipped with two-seat Lightning T.4s, which will move south from RAF Middleton St George, Co Durham, in April. Autumn for the Sycamore HAVING WON A FIRM PLACE in the RAF's search and rescue history, the last remain-ln 8 Sycamore SAR helicopters in service, •nose of the Search and Rescue Flight, RAF Jthormaksar, are soon to be replaced by turbine-powered Whirlwind 10s. T^e Sycamores first arrived in Aden in 195' and in addition to fulfilling their Primary role were used in various up- country operations, on casualty evacuationa "a communications. SERVICE AVIATION Air Forcet Naval and Army Flying News A New Admiralty Spokesman THE ADMIRALTY'S "FRONT MAN" and, in this ournal's experience, one of the best PROs in London, Captain A. H. Wallis, CBE, RN(Retd), retires from the post of Chief of Naval Information on March 31. He will be succeeded by Capt Bernard Maclntyre, DSC and BAR, who—in line with the policy established in the other two Service Min- istries some years ago—will fill the chief information post as a serving officer. Capt. Wallis retired from the Navy, and the post of Deputy Director of Underwater Wea- pons, seven years ago and returned to the Admiralty the next day as a Civil Servant and CNI. Captain Maclntyre entered the Navy as a midshipman in 1937 and in that rank saw action in HMS Ajax in the battle of the River Plate. As a gunnery specialist he was appointed Seaslug Trials Commander and conducted the first environmental firings of the weapon at Aberporth. His last appointment was the command of HMS Caesar as Captain (D) of the 8th Destroyer Sqn, in the Far East fleet. Polaris Submarine Keel Laid THE KEEL OF HMS "RESOLUTION," the Navy's first Polaris submarine, was being laid yesterday at Vickers-Armstrongs' Barrow- in-Furness yard. The keel, a prefabricated circular structure weighing well over 100 tons, was to be placed in position by Sir Alfred Sims, Director-General, Ships, in the presence of Rear Admiral H. S. Mackenzie, officer in charge of the Royal
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