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MAY II, 1939 FLIGHT. 469 SUNLIT FAREWELL : A fine impression of one of the Short Sunderlands (taken from a sister machine) escorting the Empress of Australia as she left the shores of England for Canada with the King and Queen on board. H.M.S. Repulse can also be seen. Training Pilots in Canada T HE Defence Minister of Canada, Mr. Ian Mackenzie, has now outlined the scheme agreed upon between the Governments of Great Britain and Canada for the training of R.A.F. pilots in the Dominion. At first the Air Ministry proposed to set up its own Flying Training School in Canada, somewhat on the lines of No. 4 F.T.S. at Abu Sueir, in Egypt, but the Canadian Government would not agree to this. Schools in Canada, it held, must be under Canadian Government management. To this principle no objec tion could be raised, provided that the standards and methods of flying training were not inferior to those maintained by the Central Flying School. The Com mandant of the C.F.S., Group Capt. J. M. Robb, accordingly visited Canada, and evidently was satisfied with what he found. So the agreement has now taken shape. According to Mr. Mackenzie, the agreement is to last for three years, and fifty pilots per annum are to be trained at schools at Camp Borden and Trenton. Appar ently this arrangement applies to pupils sent out from Britain, but there must surely be many Canadian young men who would like to join the R.A.F., and for whom there is no room in the much smaller R.C.A.F., and an expansion of the scheme in that direction would surely be a most desirable thing. In fact, there seems no limit to the ways in which co-operation betwten the Home country and the Dominions can be developed, in the production of both aircraft and airmen. The R.A.F. To=day T HE strength of the Royal Air Force is multiplying so fast and equipment and organisation are changing so often that only an exceptionally keen student can keep track of developments and place them in their proper perspective. Next week Flight is publishing its annual Royal Air Force Number. Appearing as it does before Empire Air Day (May 20), when the public may study first-hand many of the aspects of the work of R.A.F. units, this ksue will provide an invaluable guide to Service activi ties. Not only will organisation be outlined within the limits imposed by official restrictions, but new aircraft —which, as we shall indicate, are now being delivered at a gratifying rate—will be discussed both as flying machines and military weapons. Regulations now prohibit reference to new equipment in relation to any particular squadron, but photographs will give an idea of the wide employment of our newest standard types and will, moreover, illustrate the high pitch of efficiencj/ reached in their operation. Activities of the Fleet Air Arm (which, although rather behind in the matter of re-equipment, makes a particularly engrossing study) will also be surveyed. Armament, too, will-find a.place-in the review, though a detailed examination of equipment will be impossible. Our recent special number on Military Aircraft of the World received wide approbation, and we are encour aged to hope that the forthcoming number will prove equally popular.
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