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Aviation History
1942
1942 - 1555.PDF
fULY 23RD, I942 F\1 G HT 101 ($> Just a few of the 10,000 A.T.C. cadets who paraded in Hyde Park when the Corps held its Thanksgiving Day cele brations all over the country on Sunday, July 5th. London was represented by 20 Wings, comprising 73 Squadrons, and the salute was taken during the march-past by the Secretary of State for Air, ySir Archibald Sinclair. .,5| These three cadets are just about to experience their first "f flight. The machine is an Airspeed Oxford, a standard twin- engined trainer on which pilots are taught to handle multi engined types after they have passed out on elementary single-engined J (8) This queue of smiling A.T.C. boys is eloquent of joyful antici pation, but the absence of 'chutes indicates that they are only inspecting the interior of the D.H.86b on this occasion. (7) This, of course, is the A.T.C. corporal's ultimate goal—the pilot's seat—and he is having a foretaste in an Oxford cockpit. Cadets are not actually given flying instruction in the air during these visits to R.A.F. operational and training stations, but they are given a very valuable insight into the stations' normal activities, and flights are arranged when ever possible, especially for the potential pilots and aircrews, during which they learn much that will be of great value to them later on. /
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