"Then I did two months actual
bore. 100 miles from Aunt flying in training machines at a uke tean (N.S.W. in the heat and dust. We had every kind of weather from Gust storm to an actual cyclone which went eetn through the aero-rome, damaging quite a few planes ani We all had to lie over the wings, @ight men tó a machine, in an apfallingly bad storm. I felt as if some one Was pelting me with metal pellets, ^I managed finally to fly solo and finished up with a recommendation j un fighter pilot. I shall endeavour get switched to bombers as I [ce the navigation and blind fiyg part of the Business.
rare out ЁHB in the final re-ulto out of an initial 60 with an averiige of per cent. My great frierd Maurice Mantel came top of aN the courses in Australia with 98 r tent (you will see his photo n some that I am sending you for transmission via Betty).
"Now we're off to the most importáht part of the job, and if I get a chance I'll get a couple for you HE need for officers is emphasized in a letter just received from one of the China recruits who were recently sent for military training to Bangalore, in India.
The recruit describes Bangalore in glowing terms. The work in the Cadet unit is hard, but the recruits are not overtaxed, once they have settled down. There are plenty of facilities for sport and amusement, and plenty of social life in the place.
Extracts from the letter follow:—
"We arrived a week last Saturday atier a super voyage on the Viceroy and two days by train from Bombay to Bangalore. This is a grand town and a thousand times bigger and betder than I was expecting We are 3,000 ft. above sea level and it appears to be the heal: h resort of India. People retire here after working in India most of their lives. A race course, golf course, tennis courts, swimming bath, in fact everything.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.