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1945
1945 - 0068.PDF
FLIGHT JANUARY IITH 1045 Demonstration panel for the various electrical equipment and circuits. the wall. When not in use the panel is stacked flat against Mosquito School R.A.F. Technical Training Command Manufacturer's Course SHORTLY after the outbreak of war, R.A.F. TechnicalTraining Command were faced with the acute prob-lem of providing .training for a huge and increasing personnel in the handling, repair and maintenance of air-craft and all the diverse equipment ancillary to them. The aid of the manufacturers was invoked for the pur-pose of instituting at the factories instructional courses which selected personnel could attend. The venture was agreat success, and the extent of the scheme was widened as more and more concerns came within the orbit ofM.A.P. These manufacturers' Courses have done and are doing an excellent job, and with the advent of the Mos-quito, the De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., were asked to start an instructional school on similar lines to thosealready in existence at other firms. When the school was started in the autumn ot 1941, theaverage intake of students was four or five each week, and to date no fewer than 2,500 students of all nationalitieshave passed through. There are two courses available, the air-frame course ot one week, with an average, intake of36 students, and the repair course, which lasts 14 days, with an average intake of 16 studentsPerson-nel from the R.A.F., W.A.A.F.. B.O.AC., A.T.A., andFleet Air Arm have been instructed on the intricacies ol the Mosquito, aswell as men from the Allied Forces, Czechs, Poles, Belgians, Norwegians,Yugoslavs and Americans. Great use is made of sectionalisedcomponents and mock-ups as a means of physical demonstration to amplify Instruction onoperation and maintenance ofthe undercar- riage is facili-tated by this full- size, poweredmoc!;-up which was constructedentirely from salvaged parts.
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