R.A.F. COLLEGE AT MANBY

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26633, 19 January 1952, Page 6

R.A.F. COLLEGE AT MANBY

N.Z. REPRESENTATION WANTED (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 18. “We would like to have New Zealand directly represented at the Royal Air Force College at Manby,” said Wing Commander R. I. K. Edwards, wing commander, flying, at the college, to-day. He arrived at Ohakea yesterday by Lincoln bomber with a group of senior officers. "Most parts of the Commonwealth are represented, as well as the United States, and we would like to have closer contact with New Zealand,” he said. He explained that although there were several New Zealanders at the college they were all members of the R.A.F. and not the R.N.Z.A.F. The senior officers accompanying him comprise another winj commander, a United States Air Force lieu-tenant-colonel and three squadron leaders. They are some of the 30 or so students who go to Manby each year for an intensive course. lhe flight to New Zeeland is one of six which staff officers and students at the college are making to different parts of the world. In New Zealand they will be able to tell R.N.Z.A.F pilots something about the Vampire fighter and other new tyues of aircraft with which the Air Force will be eouipped. They will stay at Wellington. ✓Ohakea. Wigram and Whenuapai before going to Fiji and then back to England.