"In order to take a 'ticket' a pilot has to pass three tests. He first has to fly solo in five figures of eight, this involving right and left-hand turns, and finally stop on landing within fifty yards of a given mark. He then has to ascend and repeat the performance; and finally, rising a third time to a height of over 350 feet, he must switch off his engine and make a volplane or glide to earth. Should all of these tests be passed to the satisfaction of the official witnesses, a form is filled in and sent up to the Royal Aero Club, together with a cheque, and in due course the pupil becomes a certified aviator, qualified to fly at exhibitions and race meetings, and a person of no small importance in his own eyes. But he has yet a long way to go before he graduates as a flying officer of the R.F.C."
The Royal Flying Corps in the War, Wilfred Theodore Blake, 1918 |
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Harvey, William Frederick James |
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Staton, William Ernest |
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Compston, Robert John Orton |
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Rhys Davids, Arthur Percival Foley |
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Hayward, George Searle Lomax |
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Luchford, Harry George Ernest |
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Noel, Tom Cecil |
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Slater, James Anderson |
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Lale, Horace Percy |
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Whistler, Harold Alfred |
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Jenkin, Louis Fleeming |
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King, Cecil Frederick |
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Leacroft, John |
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Newland, Arthur |
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Roxburgh-Smith, Benjamin |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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