"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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Oliver, Thomas Alfred |
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Pennell, Edward Robert |
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Peverell, Edmund Heaton |
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Pickthorn, Charles Edward Murray |
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Platel, Sidney Henri |
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Poole, George Ramsden |
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Pratt, Harold Johnstone |
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Pritt, Walbanke Ashby |
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Pullan, Hartley |
5 |
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Purvis, W.C. |
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Rayner, John William |
5 |
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Reid, Guy Patrick Spence |
5 |
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Riley, Alan Incell |
5 |
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Roberts, Norman |
5 |
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Sanday, William Douglas Stock |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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