Immediate plans for the new training programme, which will create 20,000 new pilots, envisage ground instruction and fifty hours of flying for an initial enlistment of 300 college students, Officials also predicted the programme would "stimulate healthy development of the aircraft manufacturing industry, The. President's new programme calls for the training of 20,000 new pilots between the ages of 18 and 25 during 1939. The frst tests in the new training programme will be conducted at the University of Alabama, Purdue University, the University of Minnesota, and University of Washington, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Georgia School of Technology.
Excluding military pilots, there are about 20,000 licensed tiers iw the United States, with about 30,000 enrolled as student fliers. Of the latter, however, only about twenty per cent. are expected to finish their courses and become licensed pilots.
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