"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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Tempest, Edmund Roger |
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Baldwin, Owen Morgan |
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Digby-Worsley, Bruce |
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Elton, Ernest John |
16 |
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Foster, Robert Mordaunt |
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Grosvenor, Robert Arthur |
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Highwood, Sidney William |
16 |
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Johnson, Frank |
16 |
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Redgate, Oliver William |
16 |
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Stewart, David Arthur |
16 |
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Wall, Anthony Herbert William |
16 |
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Coombes, Lawrence Percival |
15 |
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Crowe, Cyril Marconi |
15 |
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Cudemore, Charles William |
15 |
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Deighton, Ernest Arthur |
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Royal Flying Corps Recruitment Poster, 1917
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