"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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Spurling, Arthur Rowe |
6 |
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Strugnell, William Victor |
6 |
| 438 |
Stuart Wortley, Rothesay Nicholas Montagu |
6 |
| 439 |
Sykes, Ronald |
6 |
| 440 |
Tuffield, Thomas Cecil Silwood |
6 |
| 441 |
Walker, Eric |
6 |
| 442 |
Walkerdine, Bernard Albert |
6 |
| 443 |
Walter, Stephen Reginald Parke |
6 |
| 444 |
Wheeler, William Allan |
6 |
| 445 |
White, Victor Rodney Stokes |
6 |
| 446 |
Wilton, Frederick Charles |
6 |
| 447 |
Aldridge, John Arthur |
5 |
| 448 |
Ansell, Arnold Edward |
5 |
| 449 |
Arnold, Anthony Rex |
5 |
| 450 |
Asbury, Edward Dannett |
5 |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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