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to calculate how many young lives were lost, with no profit to their country, as a direct result of allowing a man to instruct who had no qualifications for instructing. Then in 1917 there arose at Gosport the great Lt. Col. Smith-Barry, who first reduced flying instruction to an art and made for it a system. In almost every sub ject there are a few people who are born teachers, but most men and women have to be taught how to teach. b FLIGHT. AUGUST 18, 1938. A composite echelon stepped up, showing the types now used at the C.F.S. course : Anson, Oxford, Hart Trainer, Tutor and Fury. Pedagogy is itself a science and an art. But in the case of flying there is more at stake than there is in teaching music or swimming or Latin grammar. So the country owes a deep debt to Col. Smith-Barry and the Gosport school, and the present Central Flying School carries on their good work. The training of instructors has not always been the work of the C.F.S. The school,was founded in August, 1912, at Upavon to teach military and naval flying to officers who had just learnt the elements of piloting from some civil instructor. It catered for both the naval and military wings of the newly formed Royal Flying Corps, and its first commandant was Capt. (afterwards Rear Admiral and Air Vice-Marshal Sir) Godfrey Paine. His assistant commandant was Major Hugh M. Trenchard, of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, whose subsequent career is well known to all the world. Later in the war the school at Upavon became the special school for teaching air fighting. By that time the Royal Naval Air Service had started its own schools for teaching its own pilots to fly. After the war the C.F.S. did a certain amount of elementary flying in struction, but presently settled down to the special work of training instructors for the R.A.F. Flying Training Schools, of which there are now ten in this country and one in Egypt. in 1926 the C.F.S. moved from Upavon to Wittering, but since the expansion of the R.A.F. began it has been moved back to its original home at Upavon, on Salisbury Plain. A few miles off lies Netheravon, soon to be the home of No. 1 Flying Training School. The way in which a man becomes an instructor quali fied to teach pupils at a F.T.S. is as follows: Generally speaking, a pilot must have about a thousand flying hours to his credit before he will be considered for training as '^^-rn^A
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