"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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Emsden, Leonard Herbert |
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Eycott-Martin, Harold Ross |
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Fitzgibbon, Desmond Fitzgerald |
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Gladman, Cyril William |
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Glynn, Clive Beverley |
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Grenfell, Eustace Osborne |
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Groom, Victor Emmanuel |
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Hammersley, Reuben George |
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Harlock, Frederick George |
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Hicks, George Rensbury |
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Holmes, William Norman |
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Horry, Tom Stanley |
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Hunt, Hubert Cecil |
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Kirkman, Robert Kirby |
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Knights, Sidney Arthur William |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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