CIVIL AIR GUARD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1938, Page 8

CIVIL AIR GUARD

BUSY TIME FOR AIRMAN. HUNDREDS OF NEW PUPILS. Flying-Officer J. Kirwan, son of Sir John Kirwan, president of the West Australian Legislative Assembly, is going to lead a very much busier life when Britain’s new Civil Air Guard gets going. He is one of the three senior instructors at the London Flying Club, Hanworth, which has received hundreds of applications for cheap training under the scheme. Among Flying-Officer Kirwan’s new pupils will be 12 special constables, who start their training on September 1. “Flying Squads” who really fly are evidently destined to play an important part in London police work. The London Flying Club is making extensive preparations to deal with its crowds of new pupils. Temporary buildings are being erected, six more flying instructors will join the staff at Hanworth, and several two-seater light 'planes of a new type, are about to be added to the 20 now in daily use. Civil Air Guard pupils at Hanworth will be trained for their “A” licence in 20 stages—taken in the following order: Taxi-ing; effect of controls; straight and level flying; stalling; climbing and gliding; taking off; landing and judging distance; medium turns; gliding turns; steep turns; spinning; elementary forced landing; low flying; solo; more gliding turns; side-slipping; taking off and landing across wind; advanced. forced landing; aerobatics; cross-country flying; “A” licence test.