"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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Seth-Smith, Kenneth Arthur |
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Stanton, Frederick Cecil |
7 |
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Steele, Charles Ronald |
7 |
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Strange, Gilbert John |
7 |
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Stubbs, Charles Lionel |
7 |
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Sutton, Oliver Manners |
7 |
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Taylor, Arthur Gilbert Vivian |
7 |
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Tinsley, William |
7 |
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Turner, Francis McDougall Charlewood |
7 |
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Vaucour, Awdry Morris |
7 |
| 356 |
Walkerdine, Harold John |
7 |
| 357 |
White, Harold Albert |
7 |
| 358 |
White, Hugh Granville |
7 |
| 359 |
Williams, Percy Stanley |
7 |
| 360 |
Wilson, Percy |
7 |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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