TRAINING FOR AIR FORCE

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 20

TRAINING FOR AIR FORCE

All Members 0£ Course Graduate For the first time since the Royal New r Zealand Air Force initial training school was established all cadets in an officers’ course have passed out The school was begun in November, 1953. Yesterday 26 young men making up No. 25 officer cadet course received their commissions at a ceremonial flight review. Their commissions as acting-pilot officers were presented by the officer commanding the Wigrajn station (Group Captain T. J. de Lange). Of the 26 acting-pilot officers, 20 are pilots and six are navigators. The pilots include 11 New Zealand Air Force pilots, four who will train with the Royal Air Force, three Territorial Air Force pilots, and three pilots trained for the National Airways Corporation. After a week’s leave the newlycommissioned officers will go back to school: the pilots to the Wigram Flying Training School for eight months, and the navigators to the Wigram Navigation and Signal School.

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