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NOVEMBER 20, 1919 BOY MECHANICS FOR THE ROYAL AIR FORCE THE Air Ministry has recently instituted a new scheme to secure the entry of well-educated boys for a systematic course of training as skilled craftsmen for service with the Royal Air Force. Under this scheme boys will be entered between the ages of 15 and 16 years for a period of 10 years' colour service, followed by two years' service in the Reserve. During the first three years they will undergo a course of educational and workshop training at the end of which those who have passed the requisite tests will be promoted forthwith to the rank of leading aircraftsmen in one or other of the skilled trades. To give sco^e to the more capable and ambitious boys, and to ensure that the Air Force shall secure the full benefit of their ability, a certain number of those who show most promise during their training will be chosen for an additional six months' course of higher instruction, being promoted at once to the rank of corporal. From among these some may be selected for the grant of a commission, and will proceed to the Cadet College for training as flying officers, with the cadets entered by open competition. There will also be opportunities for promotion to a com mission at a later stage to those who show their suitability during their service in the ranks. In order that the opportunity of competing for entry into the Royal Air Force under these conditions may be brought within the reach of the largest possible number of boys, two distinct methods of admission are being arranged—(1) open competitive examinations, (2) examinations limited to candi- H H French Aeroplane Service in Chile COMMANDER V. GUICHARD, chief of the French Aeronau tical Mission, has arrived at Santiago in connection with the proposal of French aircraft manufacturers to form a company for running commercial air services in Chile. One of the first lines will be between Santiago and Valparaiso. Italian Flyer Visits Helsingfors LIEUT. MADDALENA, the Italian flying officer, on Novem ber 10 flew from Stockholm to Helsingfors, a distance of 440 kilometres, in 2 hours and 20 minutes. Five Killed in Spain A FARMAN biplane, flying from Pau to Madrid, crashed on the morning of November 17 outside the village of Delamira, near the town of Soria, midway between Madrid and the Pyrenees. dates nominated as in every way suitable by the local educa" tion authority of their district. A limited number of candi" dates with Service claims may also be admitted on the nomina tion of the Air Council subject to their passing a qualifying test only. The first examination under the scheme will be one for boys nominated by their Local Education Authority, and will take place in December. Full particulars in regard to the arrange ments of the grant of nominations for this examination have been circulated to the Local Education Authorities throughout the country, many of whom have already promised their support. As nominations must reach the Air Ministry not later than November 22, prospective candidates should com municate with their Local Education Authority without delay. Boys who are successful in this examination will enter the training centre early in February, 1920. During the War it was not possible to give enlisted boys more than a few months' training, neither was it feasible to confine the entry only to boys of sufficient intellectual attain ments to ensure that they would benefit by a long apprentice ship in R.A.F. technical trades. The scheme which forms the subject of this communique constitutes an entire departure from the methods imposed by war conditions, and is designed to meet the requirements of the R.A.F. as organised on a permanent basis. Training centres are consequently being reorganised to deal with this new entry, and the machinery of education, both general and vocational, is being largely increased and developed for the same purpose. E H The French pilot Agostini, the Spanish flying officer Capt- Bafios and three mechanics were killed. 'Plane Post in Germany AN aeroplane carrying the first aerial post from Berlin to Konigsberg was reported at the end of last week to have arrived at Konigsberg, after a flight of six hours. German Photogrammetric Project for Brazil IT is reported from Germany that recent experiments have been carried out at Lake Constance with a Schiempflug three-camera outfit, with a view to obtaining data and experience for an ambitious scheme to photograph from the air vast tracts of territory in Brazil. It is proposed shortly to carry out other experiments over Lake Constance by taking aerial photographs with the triple-camera outfit either from a Zeppelin aeroplane or from the airship Bodensee. Where the cocoa of Messrs. Rowntree and Co. is manipulated. Being a photograph from the air by kthe kAircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of the Rowntree works and Garden Village at York 1517
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