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FLIGHT, FEBRUARY 26, 1932 A COOPERATIVE TRAINING SCHEME / ||] 'HE complaint has often been made, and certainly \J I with some justification, that there is too little _JIL recognition of the men who perform the spade- work in the aircraft industry, namely, the draughtsmen and the fitters. In the years following the Great War, when the industry was fighting for existence, the life of these men could be compared to the life of an Arab tribe—nomadic. Draughtsmen in particular were the victims of this wandering life. You could always recognise them when they broke camp and moved on by the symbol of their occupation—the T-square—tucked under their arm. The opportunities of bringing that symbol before the public eye were, we suspect, something like compensation to them ! Perhaps to the single men the constant changes were also in the nature of mild adventures, for drawing to dimensions is a prosaic job, but to the married men the changes meant a burden of expense and domestic worry. Even the best or most favoured of employees found that their chief mental preoccupation was wondering how long the job was going to last. Only the love of the work or the plight of the engineering industry generally kept them faithful to aircraft work. In those early struggling post-war years firms had the greatest difficulty in finding men with aircraft experience, especially for the drawing office, and it became necessary to rely upon men skilled in other branches of engineering. In some aircraft drawing offices 90 per cent, of the men came from shipbuilding firms, which were then practically Stagnant. On the whole these draughtsmen adapted them selves to aircraft design very quickly, and many of them are still established in the industry, occupying the posts of " leading hands." Brough Training Scheme To-day, roughly twelve years later, aircraft firms are able to find a percentage of young men who have com pleted their apprenticeship in the aircraft industry, but in spite of this there are still complaints from a few quarters about the difficulty of finding adequately trained men. This difficulty is responsible for a co-operative training scheme inaugurated by the Blackburn Aeroplane Co., Ltd., the University College of Hull, and the Municipal Tech nical College of Hull. It is a scheme by which the Black burn Aeroplane Co., Ltd., will take a limited number of apprentices, and thus provide them with a sound practical experience in the workshops and the drawing office. The whole training period will last four years and nine months. The first two years will be spent in the works at Brough, near Hull, and the next two at whole-time study at the University College and the Municipal Technical College. For the remaining nine months the students will obtain drawing office experience at Brough. During the two years' workshop practice at Brough they will have to attend evening classes at a technical school and reach the standard necessary for seeking admission to the College. The minimum age set for such admission is 18 years. Resulting from their workshop experience and attendance at a technical evening school, students are recommended to take the National Certificates of the Insti tute of Mechanical Engineering to fortify their application for the College course of two years. At the end of this course, which includes training in mathematics and physics at the University College and further practical experience in the engineering shops of the Municipal Technical College, the student should be able to qualify for the Diploma granted by University College. The development of this training scheme, combined with the opportunity of obtaining actual flying experience at the N.F.S. Club at Hedon, where the municipal aerodrome for Hull is established, makes the East Riding of York shire a finely-equipped training centre for the youth with ambitions in the aircraft industry. Moreover, as long as the empty bulk of the airship sheds is a landmark on the fiat fields of Howden nearby, there is always a chance that one day the vast bulk of a new airship will emerge into the daylight and provide the local student with another phase of aeronautics for study. Students who are interested in this scheme can probably obtain further details from the Municipal Technical College. Hull. THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM IN the Report of the Meeting of the Committee of the Royal Aero Club, held on February 10, published in last week's issue of FLIGHT, the following list of Aviators' Certificates was unavoidably crowded out: — 10304 John P. Early.. 10305 Kenneth G. Vandyck. . 10306 Cyril E. Berens 10307 Alexander A. D. La Touche 10308 Thomas H. Forrest 10309 Patrick T. S. King 10310 Russell W. Pratt 10311 J. Grover 10312 Thomas Bata . . 10313 Kristiam Haldorsen 10314 Evelyn M. Jackaman 10315 Robert E. Lowe 10316 John M. Win tour Han worth C. N.F.S.). Brooklands Fl. School. Wiltshire Light Ae. and Country C. Yorkshire Ae. C. Brooklands Fl. School. London Ae. C. Air Service Training, Ltd. Marshalls Fl. C. De Havilland Fl. School. Brooklands Fl. C. Airwork Fl. School. Northern Air Lines. Hanworth C. (N.F.S.). A ^s 10317 10318 10319 10320 10321 10322 10323 10324 10325 10326 10327 10328 10329 10330 10331 10332 10333 10334 10335 0> Peter R. Simpson . . Beatrice M. Neison . . Oliver L. L. Fitz- williams Ronald D. Gerrans .. Frank Lodge Norman H. R. Wardle Gilbert I. Pawson Hugh Miller John H. Davis Jack G. Marshall Susan A. R. Tilney .. Umberto A. Combi .. Herbert S. Brown Fergus B. Taylor Harold B. Hinton Editha I. H. Dargel .. Arthur N. Wilson Ronald Ellison Percy S. Papps o Hanworth C. (N.F.S.). Do. do. Do. do. Marshalls Fl. School. Yorkshire Ae. C. Hampshire Ae. C. Brooklands Fl. School. Hanworth C. (N.F.S.). Do. do. Do. do. Do. do. London Ae. C. Kuala Lumpur Fl. C. Do. do. London Ae. C. Hampshire Ae. C. Liverpool & Dist. Ae. C Hanworth C. (N.F.S.). Hampshire Ae. C. The Disarmament Conference ON February 21 the British Delegation to the Disarma ment Conference handed in the British proposals. It is suggested that the following questions be closely studied: — (1) Limitation of effectives. (2) Prohibition of mobile guns beyond a certain calibre. (3) Abolition of submarines. (4) Limitation or reduction in the size of warships and the calibre of their guns. (5) The examination of the problem of aerial bombing. (6) The abolition of gas and bacterio logical warfare ; and (7) The establishment of a permanent Disarmament Commission. The Japanese proposals have also been handed in. The main points are:—The limitation or reduction of air forces, to be executed in a manner that will rectify existing in equalities among the air forces of the Powers. Prohibi tion of aerial bombardments of cities and towns, as well as other aerial attacks on civilians. Prohibition of scientific bacteriological warfare. Reduction of the tonnage of capital ships and the calibre of guns. Reduction of the tonnage of aircraft carriers permitted under present treaties. The prohibition of aeroplane landing decks on vessels that are not aircraft carriers. The entire abolition of aircraft carriers after the suggestion in the previous point has been brought into effect. Strict limitation of armaments on merchant ships and aircraft. 172
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