This method of training, haphazard as it was, sufficed until that time when a man came forward with a totally different method which he had evolved and which he had reduced to a practical working basis. This now system was an absolute antithesis to the old one. A parallel might She drawn between the two by comparing them with the work executed by the typist who has been taught by the "touch" method with those results obtained by the one she has "picked it up' by herself.
This man—Col. Smith-Barry—evolved a "touch" method-in aerial instruction which was entirely to revolutionize that art and which was eventually adopted as the standard method for the training of pilots and for the training of instructors.
Communication between instructor and pupil, which, hitherto, had deen a difficult operation involving the temporary "shutting off? of the engine, means of small telephones fastened into the flying helmet of simple construction. Prior to the pupil's
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