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1938
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2 FLIGHT. ADVERTISEMENTS. MAY 12, 1938. WHY NOT BECOME A PILOT? There are 1,400 vacancies in the Royal Air Force Have you ever considered becoming a Short Service Commission pilot in the Royal Air Force ? The life is healthy, interesting and remunerative and the training good. Perhaps you can qualify. Are you between \-j\ and 25 years of age, single and educated to the School Certificate Standard? If so, you can be trained as a pilot. The period of service is four years (followed by 6 years on the Reserve). A uniform allowance of £50 is payable on being com- missioned and a gratuity of £300 on completion of active service. In some cases opportunities of securing a permanent commission are given. Pay is sufficient to live upon and no previous flying experience is neces- sary. Further information can be obtained from the Secretary (Dept. S7/W), Air Ministry, London. Why not get into touch with them ? ROYAL AIR FORCE THE BROOKLANDS BULLETIN: No. 5 CAPT. H. DUNCAN DAVIS. A.F.C., Managing Director, Brooklands Aviation Ltd. (LAUGHTER!) History records the story of a barrister, rather addicted to his glass, when he appeared before a Judge famed for sobriety. - - - , In a final, despairing effort to shake an impassive witness, the wearer of silk thundered : " Tell me, Sir, are you never surprised at anything ? For instance, would you not be surprised if I told you that I once saw his Lordship going into —ahem—a Public House ? " The general amazement in Court was cut by a clear voice from the Bench : " Surely, Sir Robert—coming in ? Coming in ? " All of which has remarkably little to do with aviation, but illustrates the well-known axiom that wherever one goes, someone else seems to have got there first ! Particularly is this true of people who fly at Brooklands. Time and again have I listened to the veterans swapping stories of when they first flew within the concrete circle. I warn readers, once and for ali, that it's no use competing in this kind of con- versation. Things are usually going hot and strong, and some pre-War member has got himself happily convinced that he knew Brooklands Aerodrome before anyone else present, when a quiet voice from the corner chips in " But do you remember in '09. . . ." And away we go, all over again, with an even older inhabitant presiding! Which seems to prove two things : (i) That Brooklands pilots, on the whole, are remarkably clannish and clubbable folk. This I know to be true ; many a friendship started here has lasted through 20 years or more, and the way in which overseas members regularly keep in touch with us is in itself a tribute to the " Brooklands spirit." Though perhaps I should add, in case you should visualise us as exclusively a company of pre-Wars, that the younger generation joins in just as cordially—and, in point of fact, probably con- stkutes the majority —,..i-,-; these days. (ii) That our members live long. And without throwing too many bouquets to Ken /Valler and his predecessors, it seems a safe bet that this must, in some way, be due to the particular brand of efficient in- struction that is handed out here. Verb. Sop. ! PS.—Come to Brooklands by WEST Weybridge Station (Waterloo 40 minutes, Tarmac 4 minutes) or by car via the Kingston By- Pass (Piccadilly-Tarmac, 45 minutes). BROOK LA HT » * WESTWEYBRIDGE SURREY THE HOME OF BRITISH CIVIC
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