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FLIGHT International, 20 August 1964 307 Queen's Flight Re-equipment Complete THE SECOND HAWKER SIDDELEY ANDOVER CC.2 for the Queen's Flight has now been delivered to RAF Benson, the Flight's operating base. It is identical in all respects with the first aircraft, which was recently described on this page. The first major overseas assignment of the new Royal Andovers will be the Duke of Edinburgh's tour of the Caribbean in October. The first aircraft has already been extensively employed on flights around Britain and to the Continent. With two recently delivered Gnome Whirlwind helicopters, the Queen's Flight is now wholly gas-turbine powered. A further four Andover CC.2s for VIP duties are soon to be delivered to the RAF. RAF Regiment Expansion rHE RAF REGIMENT contribution to the Strategic Reserve is being increased by the addition of one field squadron now forming it Catterick, Yorks. With 150 men, and :ommanded by Sqn Ldr A. B. McGuire, 51 !Field) Sqn will be equipped with Land- Rovers, self-loading rifles, the new general- jurpose machine gun, 81mm mortars and he Carl Gustav anti-tank missile. The iquadron will be fully mobile and air- ransportable. RAF Regt units have recently been en- ;aged in the Radfan and Borneo operations ind in Cyprus, where they [preceded the JN Force on truce-keeping duties. Sent to Coventry to entertain the crowds at that city's recent air pageant was Fit Lt Tim Mermagen, of 56 Sqn, Fighter Command. A "Flight International" photographer caught his Lightning rapidly lightening as Mermagen applies thirsty twin-Avon reheat, selects flaps up and airbrakes in and, before the aircraft is cleaned up, begins rotation into a full reheat climb at about 24Okt, pulling over 4g as he does so. Leading-edge vortices condense the vapour in the air SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News "asevac Flights in Borneo VESSEX TRANSPORT HELICOPTERS of 845 ^iaval Air Commando Sqn, based at Sibu, n Sarawak, in support of Malaysian forces ountering Indonesian infiltration, have ecently flown more than 20 extra hours a veek in evacuating Iban tribes-people to lospital from longhouses in the dense "langa Gaat area, where the squadron has a orward base. There has been a local holera epidemic, which is now subsiding, nd the squadron is credited with" helping to ave the lives of many people who would itherwise have died in their longhouses or >n the many-days journey by longboat, •iiich the 30min helicopter flights have eplaced. Royal Navy helicopter operations in lorneo, by 845 and 846 Sqns, flying Vessexes and Whirlwinds respectively, ^suited in the recent award of the Queen's •ommendation for Valuable Services in the u'r to three pilots. They are Lts G. de S. Ukin and A. P. Woodhead, of 845 Sqn, nd Lt D. M. Carr, of 846 Sqn. Though ie three recipients are now back in the UK, t RNAS Culdrose, the two squadrons are til! at work in Borneo. ast Lane HF LAST AVRO LANCASTER to be used any- 'here in the world on operational militaryu *:es, a Mk7, arrived in Sydney, Australia,n August 13, from Noumea, New Cale- °nia, the French Pacific territory where ita s been employed by the Aeronavale.lf ter being displayed for three months in Australia it is to be flown by a British crew ' Britain, where it is to become the property of the Historic Aircraft Preserva- tion Society if the Society's fund raising efforts to pay for the flight are successful. Delivering the aircraft to Sydney was Lt Pierre Boulier, who said that the Lancaster was in perfect order, as were all its armaments. Its work with the Aeronavale has included anti-submarine reconnaissance, air-sea rescue and ad hoc transport duties. RAAF Equips for Heavy Drops THE RAAF HAS RECENTLY INTRODUCED 100ft- diameter parachutes for heavy supply drops from its 12 C-130 transports. The biggest previously used in Australian operations were 64ft diameter. Each 100-footer can lower a 3,5001b load and clusters of eight are now being used for 24,0001b loads consisting of four 6,0001b containers on one platform. USAF Auxiliaries Fly In FIRST TIME VISITORS TO BRITAIN earlier this week were a mixed force of more than 30 US Air National Guard tactical and recon- naissance fighters. The force arrived at Lakenheath, the major USAF base in Suffolk, from Ramstein and Hahn in Germany, last Sunday, August 16, and was due to leave for the United States on Tuesday. The aircraft, F-100 Super Sabres and RF-84F Thunderflashes from Air National Guard units in 22 states and the District of Columbia, were making, in Exercise Ready Go, the first non-stop de- ployment to Europe in the ANG's history, for annual field training and a test of the ANG's ability to move overseas in an emergency. The US Air National Guard is the equiva- lent of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force as the latter was in the days when it still flew aeroplanes. Anniversary Exhibition at Greenwich OPEN UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR IS an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwish, entitled Fifty Years of Naval Aviation; from RNAS to Fleet Air Arm. The exhibition was recently opened by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, one of the Navy's first pilots. In connection with the exhibition HMSO has published a book of photographs called Flying in the Royal Navy, 1914-64, obtainable from HMSO or through any bookseller, price 5s. AT THE REQUEST of the Government of Malaysia, Australia has seconded four RAAF transport pilots for service with the RMAF. They have joined Wg Cdr I. R. Olorenshaw, an RAAF transport specialist,, who took up duty with the RMAF last year. RAF REUNIONS : 26 Sqn, at the Officers' Mess, ETPS, Farnborough, Hants, October 24, 7.30 p.m., apply Fit Lt M. B. Hawkins, No 1 Officers' Mess, RAF Farnborough, Hants; RAF and FAA personnel who served at USNAS Pensacola, Fla, during the Second World War, in London on November 22, apply Mr L. V. Armstrong, 47 Rutland Rd,. London Ell (tel: WANstead 7217).
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