"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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Rooper, William Victor Trevor |
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Roulstone, Alexander |
8 |
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Satchell, Harold Leslie |
8 |
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Scholte, Owen John Frederick |
8 |
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Sellars, Herbert Whiteley |
8 |
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Smyth, Bertram Hutchinson |
8 |
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Summers, John Kenneth |
8 |
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Tolman, Clifford John |
8 |
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Traill, Thomas Cathcart |
8 |
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Vlasto, Alexander George |
8 |
| 281 |
Warner, John Weston |
8 |
| 282 |
Warren, Leslie Reginald |
8 |
| 283 |
Wright, William Alan |
8 |
| 284 |
Allen, Charles Philip |
7 |
| 285 |
Antcliffe, Ernest |
7 |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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