The Archive · 1939

Used in Planes SPECIAL TO "THE "inch"

London, Sept. 30.

Methods adopted for speeding-up the training of airmen without imtoday journalists representing Gfeat Britain, France and neutral Countries at one of the many train-schools camouflaged among The visitors were impressed by the many mechanical appliances to assist training, including a camera obscure, which enables officers to determine the-accuracy of a pilot's bombing in actual fight, and by" temperamental tests; whereby "men are allocated either to "fighting or bombing squadrons.

Statistics were naturally given sparingly, but it was revealed that where-à training school turned out 507 pilots in 1934, the figure was now In past weeks, pilot production is said to have been enormous.—Reuter.

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