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1945 - 0688.PDF
382 FLIGHT APRIL 12TH, 1945 tion to those who were trained in Britain and other Dominions. Australia has contributed 35,000 members ot aircrews, most of them trained in Canada, and train- ing has been carried on also in New Zealand, South Africa and Rhodesia. The system of training was based on that evolved by the Empire Central Flying School in Great Britain, and was second to none in quality. The United States Army Air Forces also lent a hand. One of the greatest benefits of the scheme was that men from all parts of the Empire met each other and worked together. They all worked happily together, and came to realise even more strongly than before that all were members of one family, and, for the most part, of one breed. The results of that community working will not end with the sounding of the " Cease Fire " in Europe or in the Pacific ; while Canada will continue to train airmen from the United Kingdom in the future. Air Transport TrainingB REVITY was one of the more attractive features of the Government's recent White Paper on British Air Transport. That had the advantage that the broad policy could be fairly easily grasped, but inevit- ably it left many details vague. For instance, stress was laid on the fact that "the highest standards of skill and reliability must be achieved for aircrews and ground starT," and the statement was made that the three Cor- porations will maintain a combined training establish- ment at which their flying and technical staffs will be trained. Nothing was, however, said of the founda- tions upon which the combined training establishment ' is to be built. No one, least of all corporations with little or no previous experience, can afford to ignore what has been ., done in the past. The WhitejPaper's emphasis on " the highest standards" will be scared by everyone who has a know'lgdgeHBf^he subject of training. Nothing but the bjKgfwillj^rfficeNf thejCmpire is to hold herJhvn in po^Avar co^Wtion\ /ut there is no indic^ton that CONTENTS The Outlook ----- War in the Air - Here and There - Air and the Rhine Crossing - - On Jets and Turbines - The Miles M.48 and W.61 ... The de Havilland Dove ... Blackburn Project - ... Correspondence - Service Aviation - - - 381 - 383 - 386 388 392 396 399 401 - 403 404 those responsible for drawing up the White Paper were aware that for many years before this war we had a training establishment which was, by common consent, the equal of anything in the world. We refer to the company known as Air Service Training," Ltd., of Hamble. -*.*% Before the war this firm, founded in 1930 at the insti- gation of the Air Ministry, had established a fine record. It undertook training of commercial airline pilots, navi- gators, wireless operators and licensed aircraft engineers. During the war, in a somewhat different form dictated by war needs, the firm has continued to give training of pilots for the R.A.F., Fleet Air Arm and B.O.A.C. It has given training in beam approach and other forms of assisted approach. It has trained flying control officers, airfield controllers, and maintenance engineers. It would appear that with such a record A.S.T. must necessarily be included in the training programme of what Sir Wm. Hildred, Director-General of Civil Aviation, jestingly described as "the three incompre- hensibles," either as the nucleus around which the training establishment is built, or as a private concern to which the "big three" delegate their training. ROAD TO THE ISLES : A. D.H. Dominie of a Transport Command communication flight which link the Western Isles with the Scottish mainland. After an outstanding civil career in pre-war days as the D.H. Rapide, the Dominie has put in some excellent war service. Its modern successor, the D.H. Dove, is described on pages 399 and 400.
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