FLOW OF CREWS.
EMPIRE AIR SCHEME. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 14. ‘ The Times, after noting that airmen ityaihed in Canada are now arriving in England, states: “When the scheme was first launched nine months ago one of the main advantages foreseen was that it would enable airmen to be trained in. a climate giving them many more hours in the week for flying instruction than can be expected in this country. Now that the air of Britain is in the front line of battle so that flying instruction in it has become difficult and precarious, this advantage is even more valuable. “The training scheme itself is part of a larger programme which provides for a great expansion of the air forces of the Dominions. It contemplates a flow of trained crews into the Empire air forces at the rate, not of thousands but of tens of. thousands yearly.” ’•J it is reported from Ottawa that the •first 35 pilots of 4500 air crew students under instruction for the Empire air scheme will receive their wings on September 16.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 246, 16 September 1940, Page 8
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