"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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Lavers, Charles Stewart Touzeau |
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Leith, James Leith |
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Long, Selden Herbert |
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Lowe, Cyril Nelson |
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Marchant, Cecil James |
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Mauduit, Ronald Frank Strickland |
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Maxwell, Reginald Stuart |
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McEvoy, Christopher |
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Merritt, Horace Ernest |
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Milne, John Theobald |
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Munday, Richard Burnard |
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Napier, Charles George Douglas |
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Noss, Arthur Rex Hurden |
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Pierce, Edmund |
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Ransley, Frank Cecil |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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