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1944
1944 - 0760.PDF
396 FLIGHT APR1L J3™. 1944 Mobile School Unit Air and Qround Crews of U.S. Air Transport Com* mand and Troop Carrier Command Have Visiting Classrooms : How Intricacies of Sky- master are Taught .^^p^i J| pi... ' h -,i > Checking the unfolded electrical panels in front of a C-54 used for training purposes at Santa Monica. MAHOMET cannot come to the mountain so the mountain is taken to Mahomet. The United States Army Air Forces are scattered widely over the surface of the earth, and although initially trained ground crews were sent with the groups and wings, it has been found that new types are added in the various theatres so frequently, and modifications and new equipment lead to changes in older types, that it became a problem how to ensure that crews were kept up to date. To send them home from distant stations was not very practicable, and a very satisfactory solution was found by Technical Train ing Command in travelling classrooms, mobile training w* units in which the different mechanical services, equipment and accessories are shown in actual operation. Before long there will be such travelling units for every American operational type of aircraft. Already the units include the following types; P-39 ; P-38 ; P-40 ; P-47 ; P-51; A-20; B-25 : B-26 : B-24 : B-17 : C-46 ; C-47 ; C.54. A unit for instructing in the servicing of the B-29 is now being got ready. M.T.U. 96 While equipment varies with the particular type of air craft, a bomber unit usually includes mock-ups and sec tioned examples of the engine, automatic pilot, bomb release system, communication system, bomb sights, gun sights, and turrets, as well as the usual functional systems. As an example of these mobile training units we have taken that for the Douglas C-54 Skymaster, which took the road early this year and is known to the U.S. Western One of the boxes in M.T.U.96 contains the complete operating display of the automatic pilot of the Skymaster. Folding legs raise the box to a convenient height. Making adjustments on a hydromatic airscrew. The opera tion of the governors and the entire " feathering '' action can be demonstrated. r
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