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1929
1929 - 0020.PDF
JANUARY 3, 1929 D RIVA FLYING A Section of FLIGHT in the Interests of the Private Owner, Owner-Pilot, and Club Member FLYING IN SWEDEN A Year's Good Work A REPORT of last year's work of the Aero Materiel A/B., of Stockholm, with D.H. " Moth " light aeroplanes, is very interesting. This is a school of flying which opened on February- I last year, and instruction was given in three terms. The first finished in May. Flj-ing was carried out in three places—partly off the ice of Lilla Yartan, close to engineer at the Technical Department of the Royal Swedish Air Force Board. One of the Aero" Materiel A/B's school D.H. " Moth " (Cirrus) on skids, used during the past year for training flying club pupils in Sweden in various places. Stockholm aerodrome ; then off the ice of Stora Vartan. in the vicinity of Djursholm ; and, finally, during the Easter holidays, at Are in North Sweden. Mr. A. Ahrenberg, a commercial and military pilot, was the chief instructor, and he was assisted by Mr. R. Holmen and Mr. K. B. Liljeberg, commercial pilots. Mr. A Falke, a ground engineer in the Swedish Royal Air Force, gave theoretical instruction, and so did Mr. H. Kjellson, a ground Three of the Swedish instructors who trained pilots on D.H. " Moths " in Sweden during the last year. They are (left to right) Mr. A. Ahrenberg, Mr. R. Hol- men and Mr. K. B. Liljeberg. The first-named was the Chief Instructor. All three are either military pilots or commercial pilots, or both. AIRPORTS OF SWEDEN : No. 1 is the airport of Goteburg, No. 2 that of Malmo, and No. 3 Stockholm. In picture No. 4 is one of the flying club hangars with D.HT " Moth " (Cirrus) in the foreground used by the Aero Materiel A/B for training pupils.
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