"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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Mansell, William Stanley |
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Masding, Stanley Henry Percy |
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Mason, Jack |
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Maxted, William Henry |
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McNaughton, Norman George |
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Medlicott, Harold William |
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Mellersh, Francis John Williamson |
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Mills, Kenneth Charles |
5 |
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Morgan, John Towlson |
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Mostyn, William John |
5 |
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Murison, John Thompson Guy |
5 |
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Murmann, Donald Frederick |
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Neville, Roger Henry Gartside |
5 |
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Newsome, Thomas Henry |
5 |
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Olieff, Percy Henry |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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