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PILOT-TRAINING IN INDIA. CONTRIBUTION TO EMPIRE’S EFFORT. India apparently is looking far ahead and is getting back to first principles in its air training in order to contribute its share to the British Empire pilot-training programme. Prospective Indian pilots are to be trained first in gliders, it is learned. The Nazis instituted glider training in order to begin building this air force after Versailles, it may be recalled. Hawley Bowlus, manufacturer of gliders and sailplanes, announced recently the purchase of an undisclosed number of sailplanes by the Indian Gliding Association of Bombay. This group has a Government contract to train 300 pilots during the coming year as its portion of the air-training scheme. Indications are that China is also patterning its air training along the same lines. Mr Bowlus said that a recent communique issued from the headquarters of Chang Kai-shek indicated that extensive plans are under way whereby a large number of Chinese pilots will be trained in India. It is expected that these sailplanes and others scheduled for early shipment to India will play an important part in the preliminary stages of Chinese pilot training.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1941, Page 6
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