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Summary of Events Compilation Officer: Fg. Off. D.A. Sawyer |
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1st |
February 56 |
A total of 19 sorties were flown to-day, and these mainly consisted of cine and individual sorties. |
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2nd |
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Again a reasonable amount of flying with cine and individual sorties predominating once more. One detail of simulated air-to-ground was flown in a Vampire T.11 by Fg. Off. Brunger and Fg. Off. Maillard, as there was no range safety officer at Meppen range it precluded live firing. 3 sorties of G.C.A's were flown at Alhorn. |
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3rd |
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Another fair flying day, with four sorties of P.I's with G.C.I., and six sorties of air-to-air at Sylt; the remainder being cine and battle formation. S/L Adamson Flew to Farnborough in a Prentice to-day, via Valkenburg and Tangmere, and Fg. Off. Hirst flew with the C.O. to bring the aircraft back. |
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4th Saturday |
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A Squadron parade was held in the morning and then pilots carried out normal squadron duties until mid-day when the squadron stood down for the weekend. |
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6th Monday |
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After Meteorological briefing the Station Commander gave all pilots a talk on Communism and Strategic Air Command, U.S.A.F. The weather improved during the morning and limited flying took place. Four sorties of simulated air-to-air flag, and also P.I's and individual sorties were flown. Fg. Off. Maillard had a sequence valve failure on take off and had to use the emergency system of lowering the under-carriage, and then land in manual control after burning off fuel. |
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7th |
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A fairly good flying day with several simulated air-to-air flag sorties, plus two actual air-to-air sorties at Sylt. On top of these, two sections took part in Exercise "SID" with some successful interceptions on Canberras. Plt. Off. Edwards P.A.I. from Sylt, flew two sorties to continue his conversion to Hunters. Fg. Off. Hirst returned from U.K. in the Prentice and Flt. Lt. Weston flew a Hunter back from Lyneham. |
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8th |
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No flying at all to-day due to fog, and Squadron duties were carried out in the evening, the afternoon being devoted to sports. |
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9th |
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Only fifteen sorties were flown to-day. They were mainly individual sorties due to aircraft unserviceability; the main flying was aerobatics, with some G.C.A's and two high level cross countries. |
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10th |
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A good flying day with some simulated air to air, and six actual air to air sorties on the Sylt ranges. There was one successful sortie of P.I's in with one bomber and two fighters were contacted. |
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11th Saturday |
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Battle formation and individual sorties were flown this morning, the weather being fine. |
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13th Monday |
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Good flying day again with ten sorties of simulated air to air and several successful P.I's. |
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14th |
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No flying to-day due to poor visibility. Flying would have been possible had G.C.A. been available at Jever. |
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15th |
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Once again poor visibility cancelled flying for the day, and all Pilots were engaged on squadron duties, apart from battle flight who were at 30 minutes. |
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17th |
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The weather at Jever to-day was fair for flying, but there were no diversions, and only two details were flown by the Squadron who are on battle flight. During these sorties P.I's were carried out under G.C.I. control between two pairs of each section of four aircraft. |
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18th Saturday |
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No flying due to bad weather, but battle flight were at two hours available throughout the weekend. |
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20th Monday |
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Heavy snow over the weekend precluded any flying until after midday when battle flight were the only aircraft to fly on the station, and they flew three details totalling ten sorties. P.I's were carried out between themselves under G.C.I. control. |
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21st |
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Poor visibility once again stopped all flying and squadron duties kept everyone busy. As the Squadron goes to Sylt A.P.S. next week there is quite a lot of work to be done. |
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22nd |
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The weather improved considerably to-day and normal flying was resumed with simulated air to air taking predominance with the forthcoming detachment to Sylt in mind. Fg.Off. Sawyer returned from Lyneham to-day, after being held up by weather for the past week. in a 118 Squadron Hunter. The afternoon was devoted to Sports. |
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| 23rd |
29th |
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The Squadron has ceased flying in order to prepare all aircraft for Sylt. However two sorties of Vampire T.11 were flown, one low level, and the other aerobatics and instrument flying. |
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24th |
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Two T.11 sorties and one Hunter comprised the days flying. For the same reason as yesterday. One T.11 sortie was a medium level cross country, and the other took P.O. Rastall to Sylt to take over the hanger and offices at Sylt. Flt.Lt. Lethbridge flew the Hunter on an air test. |
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25th, 26th |
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These two days were a Station standdown. |
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27th |
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To-day the Squadron moved up to Sylt but not until the afternoon as the weather at Sylt was bad until mid-day. Fg.Off. Maillard flew a T.11 on a weather recce of Sylt and reported it fine, and at 1425 hours the first three aircraft got airborne-, led by the C.O. S/L Adamson. The remainder followed in sections of four at ten minute intervals making a total of eleven Hunters. One is still in U.K. and two others are still unserviceable. After arrival all pilots had a briefing on A.T.C., Met., and a talk by the Station Commander and the Wing Commander Flying at R.A.F. Sylt on the detachment generally. |
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The weather was bad to-day with low cloud and rain, in the morning, a further detailed briefing was given to the Squadron by the attached P.A.I., P.O. Edwards, on the ranges, and the pattern of attack to be used in air to air firing. Following this Fg. Off. Sharman questioned the squadron on emergency procedures for the Hunter. In the afternoon, three films were shown in the main briefing room : "The Mark of Nippon" "Farnborough 1954" and an aircraft recognition film. |
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29th |
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This morning the weather was once again low cloud and poor visibility, and a briefing was given by Sylt, mostly on the G.C.I. system for both interceptions with the tug aircraft and an emergency let down procedure. The afternoon was devoted to sports. |
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