The British and Canadian Governments have agreed on a fhree"year plan for the training of a limited number of R.A.F, pilots at the Royal Canadian Air Force Schools in Ontario. Not more than 150 pilots will thus be trained) the limit in any one year being:60. These will be in addition to pilots taken/into the B. C. Air Force and (o Canadians who come to England and join our Air Force here.
This is a stepiin the right direction which one hopes o see considerably extended. In war time, of course, flying schools would be particularly alluring to any enemy bomber who might get through, and of course the air will) be enormously congested, with learners, observers and the regular forces. All these difficulties disappear in the great open spaces of Canada, and altogether the 150 arranged for in the three-year programme mentioned: "seem. unnecessarily meagre.
A curious cargo brought backrecently by Imperial Airways from Africa was the ears" aba 3M-ton elephant. The big game shot who brought them means to have them made into tables. They are said to polish up well and to last for a very long time. But "then so do tables [made of oak. One's sympathies are with the elephant.
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When the yanes are rotating at 280 to the minute, they are freed from the "feathering" position, and' immediately' take a lifting angle rana pull the aircraft vertically of the ground. At "about 12 ft: the jump. yhe Becomes 'a steep climb at an angle mêre or less that of an ordinary Aircraft. But the first jump can be performed from a ground no bigger it. would ibe.badly needed to contain a part of the Libyan garrison which \Would otherwise be launched against Egypt.
Here, 1 think, one cornes-to what in arily control the Suez Canal because our Fleef,; provided it still had surface control, could blockade the entrance and exit.
But the-capture of Egypt and of (which would inevitably follow) would: make that control infinitely more difficult by depriving us of Alexandria and Hama, which ere at present our only two bases in the eastern basin. We should then have to fall: back on the harbours of could} Greece -and /Turkey, whose promise Of support one likes to think has already been secured.
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