"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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Woodbridge, Albert Edward |
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Agabeg, Ivan Wilmot Frank |
6 |
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Aspinall, John Vincent |
6 |
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Baker, Lovell Dickens |
6 |
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Barlow, John Lancashire |
6 |
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Bell, George Stanley |
6 |
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Boulton, Nicholson Stewart |
6 |
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Boulton, Percy |
6 |
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Bowman, Clifford |
6 |
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Britton, Arthur Frederick |
6 |
| 371 |
Brookes, Eric Guy |
6 |
| 372 |
Burbidge, Leslie Williams |
6 |
| 373 |
Bush, James Cromwell |
6 |
| 374 |
Cambray, William Charles |
6 |
| 375 |
Candy, John Geoffrey Sadler |
6 |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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