"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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Saundby, Robert Henry Magnus Spencer |
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Sayers, Edward Harper |
5 |
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Seabrook, Joseph Powell |
5 |
| 559 |
Shannon, Christopher James |
5 |
| 560 |
Sharpe, Frank |
5 |
| 561 |
Sloot, Lambertus Louis Theodore |
5 |
| 562 |
Smith, Sydney Philip |
5 |
| 563 |
Smith, William Thomas |
5 |
| 564 |
Smith, George Henry Benjamin |
5 |
| 565 |
Smith, Harry Coleman |
5 |
| 566 |
Sneath, Wilfred Harry |
5 |
| 567 |
Stephenson, Thomas Frederick |
5 |
| 568 |
Stevens, Frank Douglas |
5 |
| 569 |
Stewart, Oliver |
5 |
| 570 |
Stokes, Claud Harry |
5 |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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