"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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Bailey, Geoffrey Grierson |
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Bartlett, Charles Philip Oldfield |
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Beard, Donald Wainwright |
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Benbow, Edwin Louis |
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Biziou, Henry Arthur Richard |
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Broadberry, Edric William |
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Brown, Alfred John |
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Child, James Martin |
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Coath, Robert David |
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Cole, Edwin Stuart Travis |
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Coombe, James George |
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Court, Leslie Simpson |
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Dawe, James Jeffery |
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Douglas, Percy |
8 |
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Easton, Harold Edwin |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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