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1936
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-124 FLIGHT. JULY 30, i936. course of individual training, such as armament flying (i.e., using his machine guns in the air), formation flying, etc. This delayed the year's work of the squadron, and so under the new arrangement the newly fledged pilot is kept on at the F.T.S- for a post-graduate course. The F.T.S. now gives him thorough instruction and practice in night flying, for under the new rules every R.A.F. pilot has to be able to fly in darkness. Previously hardly anyone except the men in heavy bomber and certain fighter squadrons was practised in night work. All this post-graduate course is carried out under the highly quali fied instructors at the Flying Training Schools. With more pilots and more flying the chances of more accidents are naturally increased, but when the accidents increase at a much smaller rate than does the amount of flying, it does not need a mathematician to prove that Service flying is, as was said above, growing steadily safer. Q etting Together WHILE politicians argue interminably, without seeming to get anywhere in particular, flying folk of more than a dozen countries have been quietly building up and strengthening a new " Entente Cordiale " during a week-end in England, and have, in a small way, made progress where the political parties seem to have come to a standstill. Representa tives of these countries have seen portions of Engla > ] together, have lunched and dined and taken wine to gether, have danced and generally enjoyed themselves together, and have come to know and like one another As M. de Skorzewski said at the official banquet, the visitors had felt absolutely at home and among friends. Sir Philip Sassoon expressed the feeling admirably whea he said that the wider meaning of "Entente Cordiale" was understanding between the people of all thosa nations who saw in the coming of flying an opportunity for closer and more friendly relations between those whom in past generations time and distance separated. The real race was not a race in air armaments, but a race between those who thought of flight in terms of military strength and those who saw in it a new instru ment of international intercourse. Every gathering of the nature of the Week-end Aerien does something to wards the strengthening of friendship and the fostering of peace. The Royal Aero Club did well in getting together S3 many visitors from abroad. The weather did its best to prevent some of them from arriving, but, in spite of all difficulties and handicaps, the 1936 Week-end Aerien must be written down a great success. It is to be hoped that it will be followed by many more. SLIM AND DARK : Off the ground, and with wheels retracted, the new Handley Page medium bomber (two Pegasus engines and C.P. airscrews) has a sinister beauty of line. For this photograph— ihe first taken with wheels up—the machine was "posed" by Capt J. B. L. H. Cordes, the makers* chief test pilot. (Flight photograph.) '
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