AIR TRAINING
SPEEDING=UP ACTION IN BRITAIN ANNOUNCED BY SIR A. SINCLAIR. APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNCIL MEMBER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY. July 2. The Air Minister (Sir Archibald Sinclair) announced in the House of Commons that a number of steps already taken would have the effect of speeding up very considerably the output of pilots and other flying personnel during the next few months. He had also decided that all departments of the Air Ministry concerned with training should be placed under the direction of a new member of the Air Council. to be called the Air Member for Training, charged not only with responsibility for the training policy and for the success of the training programme, but with ensuring that the training organisation at all times was adequate to meet the requirements of the service and to keep pace with the increased flow of production that could be anticipated, both from British factories and from the United States. He would also have special responsibility for all matters connected with the Em--pire Air Training scheme. The officer selected for the appointment was Air Vice-Marshal A. G. R. Garrod.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1940, Page 6
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192AIR TRAINING Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1940, Page 6
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