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Saturday, July 24, 1937.
FLYING INSTRUCTION Then And Now-1916 To 1937
By
FLT-LIEUT.
F. A. Swoffor, M.B.E.,
R.A.F.O..
LATE in August 1916 I was
The author of this article was formerly Instructor to the Central Flying School, Royal Air Force; Chief In- structor of the Hamble Acroplane Club; and Chief Pilot of the Wilson Airways, Kenya Colony,
posted to a Royal Flying. Corps training squadron nt Netheravon, on Salisbury Plain, placed in the front seat while my In- for a course in flying. On Sep- strucior sat behind, and I then dis- tovered there was a rudder in the tember 1-I mention dates to machine. I was told to keep the ma- show how little time was wasted chine straight by a gentle use of thic in getting pupils through their rudder, and to push my right foot forward slightly in right hand turns training-having been told to be and my left foot for left hand turns. on the aerodrome sharp at 4.30 The erratic movements the machine a.m., I joined a crowd of other performed on my first take off must young hopefuls who were also have given my instructor some anxi- learning to fly. The general neither did
ous moments, but he said nothing,
he make any
remarka conversation seemed to be about when tried to turn. Knowing now the wind; would we be able to fly that mis-application of the rudder not but admire instructors in thegg fully I gathered that if the wind days who, having no dual control, stocking showed the slightest were at the sole mercy of their pupils. sign of movement there would be Strange to say I
cannot remember
any no flying that day, unless the were killed together, there must have case when an Instructor and pupil wind died down by the evening. been cases of course, but it tends to Looking at the indicator my show how safe dying was when one hopes grew strong, it hung list- could fly the early type of machines. lessly against the masi, for not a Solo Flight After Nine breath of wind was stirring.
that morning and listening care is the main cause of accidents, I can-
Shortly after 5 a.m. my instructor arrived, the machines were wheeled
Days
A British aeroplane equipped with a blind flying hood.
so many
out of the hangar, and I was told to On the eighth I had 20 minutes dual since I had my "wings" I was con- don my "erash" helmet, which re- in the morning and 15 in the evening, sidered competent to fly them. Can
wonder there were sembled, when put on, an inverted and on the morning of the ninth 20 one
I was then sent solo casualties during the war? soup bowl. The machine in which I minutes more. was to receive my training, a Maurice after a lotal of 2 hours 15 minutes
s
when the controls
Elisabeth Schumann. sponsored by the Anti-Mui Twas controlled in the air, the engine frst solo, and although I did not know lying is interspersed with further, the
Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer (Brahms).
C2909—Lucia di Lammermoor (Mad Scene). Lina Pagliugh DB3049--Che gelida manina (La Boheme-Puccini!..Jussi Bjorling.
Splendon lo sacre faci & Spargi d'amaro,
Celeste Aida (Verdi).
B8574—My Lovely Celia (Monro arr. Lane Wilson)
Nan Maryska. The Lass with the delicate air (Arne). B8573-The Valley where wishes come true....Walter Glynne.
I'll walk beside you.
to the Secretary of State for the
was started up and he took off,
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From September 1016 until Novem- it is turning; the bank Indicator ber 1922, when I had a refresher shows whether the machine is level course, having been out of the Air interally, and the amount of bank or Force for a few years, I received no skid in a turn. The level and air- more dunt instruction, The different speed indicators explain themselves. types of machines I had to fly either had no dual control, or if they had My Instructor, after showing the movements of the various needles of the machine were moved in the air, fold me to fake over the "stick" or control column and keep the machine level Thoroughness In
fore and afl. If I had not been "blind," i.c. under a hood, it would PROTECTING THE
contraption. It was a "pusher" bi-
sher" bis in over a period of nine days. The
have been a simple matter, for plane, with a nacelle hung between the of taking off, turning and landing, instruction had received consisted
trained pilot can keep looking at дну Training
a machine TRANSFERRED CHILD wing in which the pilot and pupil and not landings of the three point
level for hours without sat. Wires Interconnecting the wings
Looking back on the training the instruments, but under the hood and struts were legion, and according type taught to-day, but landing on received in 1816 it is interesting to it was not so easy at first, and every- All who are anxious that a to the mechanics if a' bhd could fly the wheels. The machine was note the thoroughness with which thing seemed to go wrong. The speed sincere attempt be made to deal through the wires one or more were brought down to within a few fect pupils are taught to-day buth in the of the machine varied at anyt
in civilian missing! There was no dual control, and level with the ground, and then Air Force and
flying between 10 and 15 miles per hour Flagstad.with the problem of transferred the Instructor not into the front seat allowed to sink and run along on the schools. Ten hours or more, accord- above and below that at
at which I had the wheels. children will, it is to be hoped, and I behind him. He said nothing
ing to the pupils ability, are devoted been told to fly, and what entirely to dual instruction before
thought movements of No time limit was specified for my he is allowed to go solo, and his role were the most give their support to the petition about the controls or how the machine
the stick only resulted In increasing it at the time, 1 courled death the and advanced dual until he has com-
decreasing
speed beyond ali Society which is to be forwarded No Time Wasting
imagination. After having conquer- minute I left the ground. Sliding pleted about 100 flying hours uled a desire to ask my ins turns had not been explained to me, together. This refers to those who he was sure that my airspeed indien- instructor if Colonies. In the view of the the engine and shouted back to me, and turn if necessary and so I did the who wish to fly simply for the plea- down, and the speed fluetintions be-
I had seen my instructor shut off the wish to obtain
"B" licence When about 500 feet up he shut off engine when he wanted to get down, up flying as
and take for was reading correctly, profession; for those the needle was beginning to settle I found petitioners, the young females Watch what I do." No time was who stand in need of protection spent then in flying a pupil around for mentioned, and later I discovered if issued after a pupil has compicted the rudder to operate while my ins-
sume.
Spinning had never been sure of doing so, an "A" licence is coming violent. Then I was given are those who are living in homes 30 minutes or so to allow him to be the machine got into a spin it was a course at a flying school, ftown three tructor took over the sticks.
come used to the new sensation of other than those of their natural-ing, pilots were needed badly, dozens the cause of a spin or how to get out. tests. Air Force pilots and prospec- Roaring To The Ground
of fly-goodbye, for no one at the time knew hours solo, and carried out certata born parents or grandparents. and ns many, if not more, suffered Nevertheless it all seemed very were being killed daily at the front,
tive "B" licence pilots have also to do Compulsory registration of all the same fate during training in Eng- simple, and after 25 minutes I landed tructor is allowed to instruct pupils the machine was describing a course
a blind flying course, and no ins-
According to the indicator needle such children is advocated, with land. I well remember one occasion without mishap, and was extremely unless he has gone through
when there were over six pupils in pleased with myself, and thought course.
of shart tacks, but this time I was exemptions in approved cases and the aerodrome mortuary who were knew all there was to know about
convinced I was at fault, for the a right of appeal to the Governor-all killed on the same day.
flying! On the following evening I Recently, after having been flying violent movements I was making on in-Council where exemption is Watching my instructor closely I went up again, and deciding to to almost continuously for 21 years, I thing but constant ynwing from side the rudder could not result in any- further afield I started off for Salis- decided to have a blind flying course,
to side. After a time this needle not granted. Lest the descrip- noticed and down, Its for perf bury. It was a Sunday evening, and and although the pubile cannot help tion of such children should re- which resembled a large pair of apee- evening walk in the park. I flew made in the selence of aviation, it control of the stick and rudder
of the "stick" down, the top part of a number of people were out for an but be aware of the rapid advance settled down and I was given full and sult in undesirable designations, that direction. Turning to me top of the spiro to show what I could the additional aids a pilot has to-day, it, and then the turn indicator nee-
the machine banked and turn- round the Cathedral
first, below the is probably not aware of the advance told to keep the machine straight made in the method of instruction; minutes, I thought I had mastered.
and level. All went well for a the suggested Ordinance makes
fow he sourcd.
you try, stand up do, and then, to give the populace a no provision for the specifying of shoulders, and hold the joystick trent I shut off the engine and glided and the care taken
and. place your hands over
when teaching their status. One of the chief This I did, and was pleased to see ground, then, opening the throttle
down to within about 50 feet of the puplie.
die started to deviate from the cens S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. objections to any system of com-that the machine responded, but. 1 "zoomed up, turned and repented my that I should probably experience needle began to behave like
By pushing on the rudder I I was warned before commencing got it back, then the bank indicator pulsory registration has been that also making use
was not aware at the time that he was
a реп- of the rudder. dare-devil (11) manoeuvre.
some difficulty at first, for, being so dulum, and pulling and pushing on it might be abused, leading to un-Elther he had forgotten to tell me By the time I got back to the aero visual observation, experienced al- the other on the rudder, finally used to flying by "eel" alded by the stick, pressing one side and then justified invasion of the privacy about this Important control, or else drome I was full of confidence, and lots find it harder to concentrate en- got the machine into such a position
he thought he had better not burden decided to show the other pupils on tirely on Instruments. of the home and, generally, to my brain with too much at once. A the ground how good I was, so when fore, prepared for the worst, expect ground in some attitude unknown
I was, there that it was roaring towards the application of inquisitorial few turns either way and then he took the machine was over the aerodrome ing to make an absolute fool of my
me but decidedly an uncomfortable methods. This objection is overlandings which
over control again and commenced at about 3,000 feet, I shut off the
hood, but I never one. "I've got her," said a quiet had to watch, engine, and did a spiral down to the self under the come by the stipulations made Fifteen minutes in all and my in- ground. The spiral was alright, but realized how uiterly at sea I should volee from the front seat through the telephones, “a slight attack of ver- its tigo, everyone gets it at first, regarding the type of person to struction for that morning was fin- my landing was not, and after about
ished, and since it was too windy 16 bumps the machine settled down At the Commencement oľ the nothing to worry about." be charged with inspection duties, that evening for instructional nying, with several wires broken. Nothing course the pupit has two instruments and by the exemption provision. was the morning and the evening was said to me however, and after to watch, a combined turn and bank After landing my instructor sald
of the first day..
one more hour solo I was posted to Indicator, a level indicator or an very little, but what he
did say The petitioners envisage a quali-
24th Reserve Squadron at Rendeomb, air speed indicator. The turn indi- cheered me up considerably. For the To fly in any wind was to court near Cirencester, to complete 15 hours cator shows the amount the machine first two or three hours, he told me fied and sympathetic woman Pro- certain death apparently, and if the dying in all, when I should receive is yawing, or turning off the correct he had been unable to do anything tector, with assistants of Univer-wind stocking showed any signs of my "wings."
course and also the rite of turn when right, and I would find I would be sity standing, and they would fe whatsoever, we poor pupils had
alright in time. I doubted it myself, and all I could say was I had never felt such a fool in my life.
After a few hours instruction, however, I began to feel more con- Adent. I could keep the machine fying straight and level without wondering too much ali over the sky,
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to hang round the hangar proying that the wind would drop. We had we had all been through a ground no Instruction in any other subjects, course at Oxford or Reading, and so were supposed to know all there was to know about everything connected with aviation except dying.
On the three following days no fly- ing was possible and so it was not until September & I went up again,
and this time with a different In-
On the sixth I was given the same
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BULLS AND INNERS
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on turns. few turns to the left and then to the right seemed to present no particular difficulties, wonderis, until one needle began narrow path, I had been told to do right hand turn, and the needle getting too far over, I put on left
the straight
and
to bring it back to the correct position. Despite the fact the needle was well over to the left, we were
limit the right of inspection to these officers. With tact in the discharge of duties, there would appear to be little ground for apprehension that the system will be abused. What the petitioners realise, as do many others who know the facts, is that the mai-
Jig-saw puzzles are believed, Mr. Churchill complains that tsai system is but one of several structor. My instruction was con- to have been originated by an British re-armament is proceed- forms of child exploitation, and fined to standing up in the nacelle Aberdonian butcher who ac-ing too slowly. In other words,
holding the control with my instruc- that to confine legislation to tor, and flying round the nerodrome cidentally dropped a sixpenny there aren't enough shells for mui-tsal only would mean that and landing and taking off again. postal order into mincing the Colonels,
This lasted 16 minutes and completed machine. the old evils would re-appear my instruction for that day. under different forms and names.
A famous racing motorist still turning to the right, at least I As we have always contended. kind of instruction for 15 minutes in Some women change a lot writes on "What Women Have thought so, and then the nose of the machine began to fall until the air the problem is one of much larger the morning and 25 minutes in the after marriage their husband's Done for Our Cara." Wouldn't speed indicator was registering 130 evening. On the seventh I was habits, friends and hours. it have been nicer of him to keep miles an hour. Although I pulled dimensions than that of the mui-
hard on the stick and pushed on the 。 D
rudder bar the indicators thai system: it is the problem of
not would Japan abjects to China
return to their correct position, so transferred children in general. 4 genuine system of domestic stationing her own troops
cursed them all and concluded 1 The wife of a noted golfer Thus, when legislation is being service involving fair treatment where she likes in her own declares: "If a girl marries a should never be able to fly blind, undertaken, it is desirable than and payment for services. Such country. Then there was the golfer, she's crazy." But why and let go of the controls thankfully.
when
I. heard my instructor's voice say: "I've got her you are in a the whole question be tackled root a system would, indeed, be en-football team which threw out single out "golfer?"
left hand turn, slipping in and driv- and Branch There has been couraged by legislation of the an open challenge to the world,
the ing towards
ground," and I evident in some quarters à fear type suggested. All in all, the permitted to occupy their own vehicles-22 to the square mile right 11.
provided their opponents weren't Britain hno more
motor thought I was still turning to the that legislation might result in petition would appear to have half of the field.
-than any other country. But children being torn from the been considerately drafted, and
it doesn't follow that she has Crazy About Blind homes in which they have been the proposals, whilst filling in the Too much loose cash makes the densest driver population, placed and either thrown into in- loopholes in the existing law, are some people tight.
Flying stitutions or left to roam the such as to deserve the general streets. But there is nothing in support of all who want this ques-Many of Hongkong's lift- Scottish golf club whose mem- me more or less to master straight the suggested Ordinance which tion, and the attendant con-boys study English lesson books bers were requested to refrain and level flying and turns we went
operating. would justify such fears-noth-troversy thereon, disposed of whilst
one course to another by making use elevators. from picking up lost balls until on to flying on, and changing from Higher education.
they had stopped rolling. ing which would interfere with rice and for all.
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