"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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Middleton, William James |
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Miller, William |
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Minot, Laurence |
6 |
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Owen, Ernest Edward |
6 |
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Paget, Augustus |
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Pearson, Laurence Herbert |
6 |
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Pidcock, Geoffrey Arthur Henzell |
6 |
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Powell, Frederick James |
6 |
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Raymond-Barker, Richard |
6 |
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Rice-Oxley, Alan |
6 |
| 431 |
Sawyer, Cyril Hayes |
6 |
| 432 |
Scott, Laurence Henry |
6 |
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Sharpe, Thomas Sydney |
6 |
| 434 |
Simpson, Edward Arthur |
6 |
| 435 |
Smythe, Cyril Richard |
6 |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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