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Aviation History
1948
1948 - 0888.PDF
650 FLIGHT JUNE 17TH, 1948 boys may become skippers, and office boys managing directors, but what is the first rung of the ladder leading to captain of aircraft? Aldermaston, which last week received a visit from Col. Dumerle, Director of French Civil Flying Training, to study British training methods, cannot be regarded as a complete answer, nor can the commercial schools, who must charge fees far beyond the means of almost everyone. Service TrainersT HE Air Force problems are rather different, and great interest now centres around the introduction of new training aircraft and a new syllabus for which they are designed. Elsewhere in this issue the qualities of a new primary trainer are discussed, and a correspondent also questions the need for an elementary trainer at all. Orders which have been placed for two new, but entirely different, first-stage trainers for Regular and Reserve use, will enable Training Command to assess their relative merits. Two unique propjet trainers, the Balliol, below, and the Athena are also now flying. In the meantime, the U.S. Air Force, who with the R.A.F., give a lead to .the world in Service flying, are trying out advanced trainers for flying instruction from the first stages. As many will know, somewhat similar trials were made in this country during the war. Ab initio pupils, who commenced their instruction on fairly advanced single or twin trainers, and then transferred direct to operational aircraft, seemed to compare well with their fellows who had followed the standard E.F.T.S. and S.F.T.S. courses. Early reports indicate that American experience bears out these results. Need for a Change" of AttitudeS PEAKING generally again, there is ample evidence to show that young people in this country are keenly air-minded, but it is also apparent that the normal healthy development of civil flying with all its ramifi- cations—powered, unpowered and in model form—is CONTENTS Outlook - Prentice in the Air - - Swedish Ghost Fighter .... Civil Aviation News - - - - - Crop Spraying ------ Birthday Honours - - - - Transport on Trial ------ Personal View ------ Valkomna! - - - - - Bramcote Navy Day Here and There - - - - - Civil Aviation Committees - - - - Correspondence Service Aviation ------ Forthcoming Events, page 673 649 651 654 655 659 660 661 662 665 666 668 - 670 672 674 being choked by every kind of difficulty and discourage- ment, in the face of which official good wishes as a sub- stitute for action seem ironical. Such a state of affairs will handicap recruitment for the Flying Services, and can only result in the long run in British civil aviation meeting even harder times than those with which we are now grappling as the result of another kind of restrictive policy followed from 1939 to 1945. Many points emerge for the future, but the important ones, which all seem to centre around a change of atti- tude, are these: Active encouragement of flying must start at school age, and for those keen and suitable young men who wish to make flying a career, there must be the means of becoming airmen, not in the Services alone but in commercial fields. Encouragement must be given for the production of one or more light aircraft of the club trainer type, to meet the fine export oppor- tunity which exists, and at the same time fulfil our modest home needs. Some concrete help must also be given to the civil flying movement itself, if only in the form of relaxation of a road vehicle tax on aviation fuel. SEATS OF LEARNING : With its three seats (for instructor and first and second pupils), and its Armstrong Siddeley Mamba airscrew-turbine, the Boulton Paul Ralliol is one of the new British aircraft to be demonstrated at Farnborough in September.
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