The Archive · 1939

Be Three Years

SPECIAL TO THE "NE."

London, May 1.

Sir Kingsley Wood, the Secretary of State for Air, announced in the House of Commons today that an agreement had been reached with the Government of Canada regarding the scheme under which Royal Air force pilots will be sent to Canada for intermediate and advanced flying training.

The duration of the scheme, he stated, will be three years.

The number of pilots to be trained, Sir Kingsley added, would not exceed fifty in any one year.—Reuter.

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