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FLIGHT International, lb June 1969 Ray Hanna, who had led the team for the past three seasons, was being recalled to resume the leadership. He will con tinue to lead for the rest of this season. Sqn Ldr Timothy Nelson, who took over the leadership at the beginning of this season after being a member of fhe^ team for two years, has now left the Red Arrows. He attributed the lack of success of the 1969 team, which had four new members, to the bad weather in the spring, which had restricted practice, to a fatal accident to one of the pilots in training and to his own lack of experi ence in leadership. Jaguar's UK Debut A FIRST APPEARANCE IN BRITAIN by the BAC/Breguet Jaguar supersonic ad vanced trainer/tactical support aircraft is due to be made today (Thursday, June 26), when the aircraft takes part at RAF Little Rissington in the ceremony of the Queen's Colour presentation to the Central Flying School. One of the single-seat prototypes will be on view in the static display and is to be flown during the closing minutes of the cere mony by BAC test pilot Jimmy Dell. RNZAF Trainer Replacement HARVARD TRAINERS of the Royal Now Zealand Air Force are expected to be replaced in the early 1970s. This was stated toy the retiring Chief of the Air Staff, AVM C. A. Turner, on a recent visit to Wigram RNZAF station. He said that the air force had looked at a number of possible new types and the short list had narrowed down to the Macchi MB.326, BAC 167 and the Canadair CL-41. Swim G.91Y Purchase? THREE ALTERNATIVES have been offered by Fiat to Switzerland if Fiat G.91Y& are purchased for the Swiss Air Force as a replacement for its Venom FB.50 ground-attack aircraft. These are; licence- manufacture of the aircraft in Switzer land; 50 per cent construction in Switzer land and 50 per cent in Italy, with assembly and flight testing in Switzerland; or production in Italy with assembly and flight testing in Switzerland. SAR Competition Winners WINNERS OF THE TEAM AWARD for the highest overall marks in the International Helicopter Search and Rescue Competi tion held at RAF Thorney Island from June 10 to 13 (Flight, June 19) were the Royal Netherlands Air Force team. They received the Henri Dunant Trophy. named after the founder of the Inter national Red Cross and presented by United Aircraft International. The Royal Belgian Air Force were second, the Royal Swedish Navy third and the Royal Air Force fourth. The crew classification trophy, pre sented by the RAF as this year's host country, and awarded in gold, silver and bronze forms, was won by the Royal Swedish Navy; the RAF won the silver trophy and the Royal Netherlands Air Force the bronze. Individual crew awards were won as follows: RFD Trophy for precision winching, French Navy; West- land Trophy for navigation competition, Royal Swedish Navy; and Rolls-Royce Trophy for sea rescue, Royal Nether lands Air Force. Saluting Canadian Airmen CONTRIBUTIONS BY CANADIAN AIRMEN to Allied air operations during the Second World War are described and illustrated in The Dangerous Sky, by TomCoughlin (William Kimber, 6.Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1; illustrated, 50s net), which graphically details the many different kinds of role Canadians played in 1939-45 air operations—as fighter and bomber pilots, in Coastal and Transport Commands and as part of the British Commonwealth air training plan. In a foreword, Gp Capt Douglas Bader, who commanded a Canadian fighter squadron, No 242, says that the book "shows the tremendous contribu tion made in the air by Canada in the Second World War. The young Canadian fliers whose exploits are so graphically described in the pages of this book [the A familiar sight and sound over the West • country ore tht three yellow North American Harvard! (right) from A&AEE Boscombe Down, Wilts. Currently employed as photo-chase aircraft for supply drop ping trials, all three bear the establishment's name and crest on the fuselage. Below, a Har vard IIA of No 6 Sqn, South African Air Force. Liberally covered with Dayglo paint on cowling, tail-unit and wings, this aircraft carries a rocket rail beneath each wing, presumably for arma ment training. Some ISO Harvards are currently in SAAF service but are due for replacement by the 234 Atlas Impalas which are on order 1069 text of which is largely made up of detailed accounts of operations in which Canadian aircrew were involved] filled me with the same pride that I felt as a boy reading of Bishop, Barker, Colli- shaw and other Canadian aces of World War One. The World War Two Cana dians did indeed uphold the traditions forged by their predecessors." H.w. Von Rosen's Return ON HIS RETURN to Sweden recently from Biafra, where he led a squadron of five MF-9B Mili-Trainers in rocket attacks against Federal Nigerian aircraft (Flight, June 12, page 991), Count Carl Gustav von Rosen has been reinstated in his position as chief pilot of the Swedish charter company Transair. But subse quently he received a rebuke in Geneva from Dr August Lindt, the International Red Cross relief co-ordinator in the Nigerian civil war. Dr Lindt alleged that as a result of the count's "exploits" the Nigerian press had launched a campaign against him.
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