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1964
1964 - 1574.PDF
re-equipment—the aircraft on the right is the one that's new. A Sea Vixen FAW.2, a type about to become operational in the Fleet Air Arm, shares the RNAS Yeovilton apron with a Sopwith Triplane loaned by the RAF (who aren't using it either) for the FAA Museum, which opens with the SOth Anniversary Review at Yeovilton on May 28. The Sopwith "Tripe" served with the RNAS in the First World War SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News SEATO Simulations AIRCRAFT AND OVER 1,000 MEN of the RAF, RAAF and RNZAF took part in the SEATO tactical air exercise, "Air Boon Choo," in Thailand earlier this month. To Bangkok International Airport went a small air movements section from RAF Changi, to support FEAF logistic nights between Singapore and various Thailand centres. No 48 Sqn Hastings and 34 Sqn Beverleys, from Changi and Seletar, flew in the team's trucks, refuellers, water tankers and other stores. No 224 Gp Air Portable Communi- cations Element operated at Bangkok and Udorn to provide communications for the Commonwealth air forces. Apart from logistic transports, active RAF participants in Air Boon Choo included 20 Sqn's ground-attack Hunters, 45 Sqn's Canberra bombers, 81 Sqn's Canberra PR.7s, 209 Sqn's Pioneers and Twin Pioneers and 215 Sqn's Argosies. RAAF aircraft involved were Avon Sabres, from their regular base at Ubon, Canberras and C-130 Hercules. RNZAF Canberras and Bristol Freighters also took part. During the 10-day exercise, which addi- tionally engaged tactical units of the Royal Thai and US air forces on simulated counter-insurgency warfare, King Phumi- phol of Thailand visited RAAF Ubon. US Considers Aid to IAF INDIA'S MINISTER OF DEFENCE, Mr Y. B. Chavan, arrived in Washington on Monday, May 18, for consultations on India's defence requirements. During his visit a decision is expected to be announced on whether the USA should aid financially the manufacture ol supersonic fighters in India. A US |jovernment spokesman said on May 5 that "e Administration was giving favourable attention to the Indian proposal. r nree fighters are being or are about to beJu« m India—the transonic licence-built Siddeley Gnat; the Hindustan Marut, the first two Orpheus- Powered transonic prototypes of which ere handed over for IAF testing earlier ws month, and the Russian Mig-21, for builf " Of which factories are beinS aid' 1tlunlikelythat the US would materially tvr* llcence-production of a Russian >!* and the Gnat is, of course, now obsolescent. If the US decides to aid fighter construction in India, rather than simply supplying the IAF with US fighters, it seems most likely that aid will be in the form of development assistance for the proposed supersonic version of the Marut, including the provision of a US engine in place of the Russian turbojet around which project work has been done. Big Campaign for RAF Recruits AFTER EIGHTEEN MONTHS of restriction in the enlistment of airmen in ground trades the RAF is to start recruiting on a large scale with the aim of attracting 100 a week. Four thousand recruits by the end of next March is the target. For the first time the mini- mum age for enlistment will be reduced from 17£ to 17 years. The rate of pay will be 9s 6d a day until the age of 17£. The reason for the big increase in recruiting quotas, announced in the Com- mons on May 13, is that many men who signed on when conscription was about to end are now reaching the end of their five-year engagements. Airlift for the Navy RAF TRANSPORT COMMAND and charter operators will combine to mount the RN's biggest air trooping operation this summer when the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious completes her present commission in the Far East. The paying-off complement of 2,400 will fly home from Singapore and the new crew will fly out for the ship to re-commission on station. RN warships have previously been re-commissioned by air but never before a ship of this size. THE MINISTER OF DEFENCE FOR THE RAF, Mr Hugh Fraser, is at present touring RAF and other Service units in the Far East. He left London Airport in a 99 Sqn Britannia on May 14 and will return on May 26. His tour will include units in Borneo. HMS "EAGLE," newly modernised at a cost of over £20m, re-commissioned at Devonport on Thursday last week, May 14, under the command of Capt L. D. Empson, RN. She will now be engaged in working-up trials to become fully operational later in the year. Effluorescence The CFS Red Pelicans formation acrobatic team has blos- somed into the premier RAF display unit for 1964, as recorded in print last week. Recorded here in terms of light and shade by MoD (Air) photographer Mike Chase are the Pelicans' six fluorescent red Jet Provost TAs per- forming some manoeuvre or another
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