"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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Kirkman, Robert Kirby |
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Knights, Sidney Arthur William |
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Leask, Kenneth Malise St. Clair Graeme |
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Lewis, Cecil Arthur |
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Light, Alan Douglas |
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Masters, Ernest Harold |
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Mather, M. |
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Maund, Hugh Bingham |
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McCudden, John Anthony |
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Mitchell, Leslie Edwin |
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Moody, Henry Michael |
8 |
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Muspratt, Keith Knox |
8 |
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Nash, Thomas Walter |
8 |
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Olivier, Eric |
8 |
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O'Toole, William |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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