EMPIRE AIR SCHEME

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1940, Page 7

EMPIRE AIR SCHEME

British Official Wireless.

ONE NOTABLE ADVANTAGE

! Rec. 6.30 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 14. i The Times says, after noting that airI men trained in Canada are now arriving j in England: "When the scheme was first I launched nine months ago one of the j main advantages foreseen was that it j would enable airmen to be trained in a i climate that gives them many more I hours in a week for flying lnstruction j than can be expected in this country. ; Now that the air war has developed, j Britain is in the front line of the battle, | so that flying instruction in it will ! become difficult and precarious. This advantage is even more valuable than , the training scheme itself. 1 "Apart from the larger programme, which provides for great expansion of the air forces in the Dominions, it eonteinplates a flow of trained crews into the Empire air forces at a rate, not of thousands. but of tens of thousands yearly." j The first 35 pilots of 4500 air crew students under instruction for the Empire air scheme will receive their wlngs on , September 16.