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1942
1942 - 2007.PDF
SEPTEMBER 24TH, 1942 Three trainer types from E.C.F.S. in formation. Nearest the camera is a Miles Magister, next is a Master from the same stable and, in the background, an Airspeed Oxford. MHllMBi EMPIRE CENTRAL FLYING SCHOOL Renowned Training Centre Receives Still Higher Status : 30 Years' History of a World-famous Unit WRITING of a visit to the Central Flying School in July, 1914, the following passage appeared in Flight, summing up our impressions of a school which, even then, was famous:—"The organisation is complete in every branch of its work ; the course of train ing leaves nothing to be desired, since theory and practice are combined in such proportions as to be of the maximum practical value to the officers and men ; while the spirit which pervades the school is admirable." At that time the school was I.T.W., E.F.T.S., S.F.T.S., A.F.U., O.T.U., and C.F.S. rolled into one. To-day the students at the school consist mostly of chief flying instructors, each with over 2,000 hours' flying to his credit, so much have times changed. Nevertheless, the foregoing summary of the work and quality of the school is just as accurate to-day as it was 28 years ago. Before describing the actual work of E.C.F.S. as con stituted to-day, it is of interest to go briefly through the chool's history. The Central Flying School was the first it of the Royal Flying Corps which, it will be bered, had both naval and military wings. It came g in August, 1912, and was stationed at Upavon, on Salisbury Plain. The unit still lives not many minutes A doctor of the Research Flight Who ffie*.*gtlu*(iS£nkr.<'\ by air from'Upavon, but for a while—1926 to 1935-it was of the school to study physiological efJ^tsiSiraer flying! \\ stationed on the Great North Road at Wittering, in North- conditions. jSf&fS i S amptonshire.
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