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1952
1952 - 1658.PDF
TRAINING IN RHODESIA DURING the war years a total of 8,500 British aircrew were trained in Southern Rhodesia, and in May, 1946, the Air Ministry began negotiations to revive the training scheme, which had lapsed with the ending of hostilities. Work recom menced in January, 1947. Chipmunk basic trainers now equip the Flying Training Schools at Heany and Thornhill, and applied training is given in Harvards. Pupils accepted for short-service commissions go out to Rhodesia as acting pilot officers and spend nine months in the colony before qualifying for their wings. Southern Rhodesia provides an admirable ground for developing and exercising initiative and officer qualities, and these progress side by side with the flying training. The F.T.S. at Thomhill is surrounded by bundu—the open tree-covered terrain of the colony and home of a great variety of wild life. (Left) When on local leave the A/PIO.s find no lack of sights to see. Here an Anson of the Rhodesia Air Training Group crosses the Victoria Falls. (Above) A prerequisite for success is an understanding between instructor and pupil. Both acknowledge the merits of the Chipmunk. I After a cross-country flight a Chipmunk turns over the Khami Dam. Staff, instructors and airmen are fortunate in the liberal scale of married quarters available. Above is a warrant officer's bungalow at Thornhill. (Below) No great distance from the R.A.T.G. Headquarters h Cecil Rhodes' grave; here a Zulu guard acts as guide to two visiting airmen.
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