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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-09-06, Page 106 r*9*...Tirntfr-Advcioate, September 6, 1956 CANADIAN PROPANE GAS ,& APPLIANCES GRATTON & HOTSON Phone 156 Grand Bend . .... .............. ......... The Story In Shipka uuiwnHMULumnwnmtHjiH^ £ * Your Airforce In Action How The RCAF Trains Its Pilots Second Line In Biddulph By MRS. H. ELSON Visitors in the community over ’the holiday weekend were: j Misses Janet and Geraldine Biair with their uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. Leo Flannigan Jr., London. ; Mr. and Mrs. Don Blair and • « e Hit e Meteor Mercury USED CARS AIR*54 CHEVROLET BEL Two-door, red and white, • radio, new tires, tinted glass. '53 FORD Two-door. *48 *53 *49 Radio. CUSTOM LINE FORD CHEV CHEV COACH SEDAN SEDAN South End Service Russ and Chuck Snell PHONE 328 EXETER & s cI j Holiday Visitors Mr. and Mrs. Ray -Collette, ’ Robert and Catharine of Oakville with her mother, Mrs. Jacob Mr and Mrs V Denomme • One of the most common sights1 By GLENN COWAN -will continue with a curriculum , f London with Mr mid iur. ana mrs. v. imnomme, u be u } t t c- which includes ground school and anaMr. and Mrs. Earl Picketing) tralia> and often onpthe streets come thoroughly familiar before Right training. Bob Blair. and family and Mr. Howey , of Exeter are the young men graduates to his next stage. The next stage after having Mr. and Mrs. Ron Denham Pickering all of London, with Mr. dressed in Air Force uniform, 411^ achieved solo status will involve f and family of Kirkton with Mr.- and Mrs. Elmer Pickering and who have the small white flash febip, flight theoij, navigation, the learning of acrobatics, and j and Mu. John McAllistei. . family. in the front of their caps. These meteorology, radio aids and wm also include his introduction Misses Yvonne and Glenda t Dr. E. B. Sanders, Mrs. San- men are flight cadets, who arc ?pr“ For two weeks lus to cross-country navigation trips. Fisher of Exeter and Miss Shar­ ers. Janet and David and Miss in training for one ’ the com- “ will buzz with terms like This in turn will be followed by.on Fletcher of Woodham with Ardith Peskett of Welland, Mr missioned trades available. They fn^eishhn 3 another progress test. < their cousins... Judy and Bonnie ami Mid. v/»n. MvTevi mid Biiiie, fui a £C™A011’ ,cSLv \a?Sn; Having got this far, the student ■ Blair. ( of London with Mr. and Mrs. sion m either the flying or the 1 !S- in of.a Vreatier’ 1Ie.ls' Mr. and Mrs. Fred Elston of*•-*’ - ----------- ...........occluded fronts range legs glVen two weeks eave as a nud-i Detroit with Mr. and Mrs. Mer- Thc first step that is taken n -d ,trIanSlc5. of velocity. After term bonus, and •Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Webb o£ by a dirert eng- candidate is o”VMr’ 1?’. JiY 01KiPOintS. .furtl’er I-............... .. St. Catharines. Mr. and Mrs. Ray ; course to make formal applica-. ham be ^dlned tn id s a,nt’/nd do+e,s 1?lsn,hest comJ •' momun who < Russel^and David of Windsor, - tion. through the" medium of his a flteht 16 ”e ass gned to JP Js ; thei” rclativcs- ( The entire course in FTS, in-' Harvard trainer, deluding the first two weeks in t ^avc, me. < primary ground school, lasts for j student moves into the next; 136 weeks. For the second two 1 stage which involves night fly- | weeks of his training course, the ing. F!e { student is assigned exclusively'---- t to the flights, and concentrates i on the primary requisites of i learning to fly. He is taken into the air by his instructor who i demonstrates to him the various ; attitudes of flight which are akin i ; to normal straight and level fly- • png. After his air familiarization I ;flight, he learns how to hold an) aircraft straight and level in j flight, how to carry out medium I turns to the right and to the ~left, how to climb and how to duction L _______B glide. From this stage he learns j During his instrument work, the _s—....... student learns how to fly on the radio range. He learns the cor­ rect manner in which he should fly a standard range approach, which is an exercise to enable a pilot flying undqr obscuring instrument conditions to descend safely to an airport, using the aids provided by the low fre­ quency radio range, and follow­ ing the procedures as laid down for the particular airport in use. The radio beacon procedures are studied and 'practised in full. These involve the use of the radio compass and although the let-down procedures are some­ what similar to those used in the standard range approach, they employ the use of visual in­ dications bn a radio1 compass card rather than the audio sig­ nals given on the radio range. An additional radio aid with which the student is thoroughly acquainted Is the automatic dir­ ection finder. This, is a device which indicates a bearing of an aircraft from the station on a small dial, and correcting for the fluctations in it, the opera­ tor is able to home the aircraft to the station, and carry him through a let-down procedure which will home him right onto the runway in use. The last stage for the student in FTS is his formation- flying instruction. The course in the ground school is completed in the thirtieth week, and the students’s last six weeks are devoted en­ tirely to the flights. He learns to fly in, formation with two anti three other aircraft, and to car­ ry out different manoeuvres when flying in vee formation, line ahead and line abreast. Having accomplished this final stage, the pilot trainee is then ready for his wings test and his Harvard handling profiency test. These” are the finaj obstacles which he must overcome before his graduation from the flying training school.. The tests are highly comprehensive, and cover in detail all aspects of the flying training which the student has undergone during- the thirty six weeks, When the student passes these, he is promoted to commis­ sioned rank as a Pilot Officer. Now he enters the final stage of training before - the awarding of his wings. He is posted to one of the advanced flying schools on the Manitoba prairies for his jet training. This course lasts for another 16 weeks, and is car­ ried put on the T-33 jet trainer. The jet conversion is mainly a familiarization course ’ and ,the exercises carried out are much the same as for the FTS train­ ing. In addition, he learns about high altitude flying and flying on oxygen. At the end of this course, the student is again thoroughly examined, both in ground school and in the air. He is than con­ sidered to be fully qualified as a pilot of RCAF standards. At his graduation from the AFS, he is awarded his wings, and has final­ ly achieved that aim that he started out after so long ago, when he made the first.tentative enquiries at the recruiting unit. After graduation as a quali­ fied pilot, our student must un­ dergo one more training course before being posted to an oper­ ational squadron for- conversion to other aircraft types. He must undergo a course in aerial gun­ nery and rocketry at the Gun­ nery Schbol in Manitoba. From here, he is posted to an opera­ tional unit. It may „well seem that to achieve pilot status in the RCAF, one has to be of a mental con­ dition bordering oft genius. How­ ever, this is far from true. Air­ crew applicants are drawn from high school graduate material, and for them to achieve success nothing more is required than willingness and diligent appli­ cation. A cross section of the average Air Force pilot of today would show a young man of high, but not supernormal, intelligence, physically fit who poSessed patience and an inherent ability to work hard. ders. Janet and David .and Miss in. training for one .UU.IU +SOOVH. VA- 4ULJand Mrs. Wm. McTeer and Billie (may be training for a profes-..hl 1 Arthur Finkbeiner and Mrs. Me- ’ non-flying list . ’ Avoy. :I I__ __ _____ ___ i St. Catharines, Mr. and Mrs. Ray 1 course to make formal applica- ■ Russell and David of Windsor, ■ tion through the" medium of his „ Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Russell and;local recruiting unit. There, he Jeff and Miss B. McKormick of j is tested in order that the Re-1 rho Essex with Mr. and Mrs. Cliff cruiting Officer may be able to »Russell and sons. establish that he 5possesses the 1 Mr. and Mrs. Alton Comfort, ‘ potential to warrant sending him ; and Roy, Miss Elsie Comfort and ’ to the selection unit for his pri- friend of Fenwick with Mr. and.mary indoctrination period and ; Mrs. Stuart Sweitzer, Jim and ; for his officer selection board. bcott. (This intelligence test is followed Mr. Philip Fassold of Dash- by an exhaustive medical exami- ) wood was honored on Sunday, i nation. on the occasion of his 84th birth- i After his visit to the Recruiting ; day, at the home of his daughter,, Unit, the candidate is sent to i Mrs. Milton Ratz. Guests were the officer selection course at ! Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fassold, | Number 1 Personnel Selection Mrs. Nelda Routledge of London ‘Unit (Officers) at Crumlin. Here Mr. and Mrs. Melton Walper and ; he undergoes a week of com- daughters of Ingersoll and Mr. I prehensive intelligence, initia- and Mrs. Jack Ratz, Joan and!tjve> medical and psychiatric . ! tests which determine fully, that Miss Leona Nicholson of Brig-1 it will be of value to the Z.ir den and Master John Guenther (Force to select him as a prospec- of Chatham have returned home i tive officer and a pilot. MrT KarldarnpnthZr • Immediately following his ^3fL .3?d^/a^<’ i selection, _ he is sworn into the week in Toronto with Mr. Larry' ^oter to "the^rank “of Flight Angus, Jr, Cadet. This rank is classified i Mr. Donald Finkbeiner of Cre-: as being that of a subordinate of- diton is the new teacher in *’ ‘ ' I Shipka school. aerofoil, centre of pressure, ICC, c . . „ ........... „w..........u triangles of velocity. After term bonus, and heads for Fiori-1 yin Elston and their aunts Misses . .............. ‘.........................’ or points further Miriam and Dinah Elston of Ed- . monton , who are visiting with a machine in existence as ai Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rolco and Inc...........................................'family of Toronto with the form-1 On lus icturn fiom leave, the . er-s parcn(S Mr. and Mrs. John wmen involves mgnt ny- i K^C0‘ T . , , . , . , „. His night flying training 1 Joh.n Holco, Jr., and friend I J commences in the same manner iof Toronto, with tae former s | , as the primary day training. | na‘’nnts Mr M”c I At first, the student is checked | 1 out in the aerodrome circuit un- j der the guidance of an instructor. He then continues his circuit r.nd landing work solo. From there he goes onto night navigation cross-country flights, which car-1 ry him over wide areas of South­ ern Ontario. j In the -meantime his day flying ' training continues with an intro-’.........................................., ____ to instrument flying.; Misses Sheila and Wendy El- is insfnimnnh wnrlc 1Iip ___1 n ___ «_i __ ...... ;|j>eiecuu«, ne is sworn into meMr. • Shmrpe visited ! service of the Queen, and is pro­ week in Toronto with Mr, Larry. moted to the rank of Flight Announcement Glen Lockhart is happy to announce that he has taken over the North End White Rose Station and is quali­ fied to provide reliably and economical service to the motoring public of Exeter and district. WHITE ROSE For Fast, Dependable Car Service, See . . . . Glenn Lockhart Phone 691-R .North Exeter ficer. He is an officer candidate in training," and although as yet, he does not hold the Queen’s Conimision, he is extended many of the priviliges of an officer. The next step in the career of the new Flight Cadet is to be posted to the Pre-Flight School at Station Centralia. Here, he will spend the first twelve weeks of his actual training. During his- period in PFS, he will receive tuition in general academic sub­ jects,'’including mathematics and algebra, physics, and science. He will also receive instructions in ground defense, theory of ato­ mic warfare, anti-gas drill and many other subjects which he will have to be r.ware of in times of national emergency. He will learn to salute, and will be jwell versed in the matters of etiquette and courtesy with which a com­ missioned officer must always be familiar. As well -as learning to be a pilot, the flight cadet must learn to be an officer at the same time. After completing the Pre­ Flight School Stage, the cadet is ready to move onto the Fly­ ing training School. For his first two weeks v in FTS he will receive his introduction to the ground school subjects with which ,he will have to be- I -THAtk why AfMOVtO SANITONE SANITONE DRY CHARING Gets Out Mwe Dirt! Family Headquarters for Better Dry Cleaning! 0 Embedded Grim© Vanishes • Minor Mending Always Free j! • Like-New V, Texture Restored e Perspiration Stains Disappear * No Tell-Tale Cleaning Od ® Beautiful longer Lasting ^ress (Folks all over towti'are discovering that there really is a difference in dry cleaning! Men and women alike 3ay Samtone is the one service that |^ts clothes really clean, leaves no ground-in grime behind to wear out clotWng fibers. Try us today and see why folks prefer our Sanitone Dry Cfeanipg Service. Phone 106 And Laundeteria Ltd Exeter further simple- manoeuvres, j which include learning how to .perform a climbing turn and a I gliding turn. Having demonstra- j ted his ability to maintain nor­ mal straight and level flight, to alter course, to climb and to glide, the student is then taught the intricacies of the stall and the recovery. An aircraft derives its lift, or the ability to fly, from the flow of air over the curved surfaces of its wings. These curved sur­ faces are so designed that when a constant flow of air passes over them, an area of increased pressure is created on. the under surface, creased pressure, or a partial vacuum, is created on the uppefc Surface. Consequently, the in­ creased pressure below ’the wing will cause it to rise against the decreased pressure, dr the low­ ered resistance on the upper sur­ face. When an aircraft is built, it’s wings are attached to the fuse­ lage so that they are at an angle which is slightly above the hori­ zontal. Should it ever be possible for a reader to examine the cross section of an aeroplane’s wing when it is attached, this angle will be quite discernible. This particular angle is referred to as the angle of attack. The angle of attack .may. be increased by raising the nose of the aircraft in flight, as in a climb, to a point where the even flow of air over the wings is.mo. longer, possible to maintain. When this flow of air ceases, the wing is no longer capable of deriving lift from, the air. As a result, the wing .tends to fall towards the earth, having lost it’s main means of support. A wing in this condition is said to be stalled. To recover from a stall, it is necessary to alter the angle of attack of the wing by decreasing it, at the same time increasing the airspeed of the aircraft so that the normal and beneficial flow of air over the wing may be resumed. The spin is a potential killer, and is invariably the result of neglecting to allow an aircraft to recover from the stalled po­ sition. As a result, all students are made to experience a spin, and are taught the correct way in which to recover from it. The student progresses into circuit work, where he will roar around the aerodrome circuit, perfecting his ability to take off and land 'the aircraft success­ fully. The ’ student will practise forced landing procedure, where an engine failure is simulated and 3he is taught how to get safely onto the airfield by using the aircraft’s gliding flaps and without using theip, how to bring the aircraft- safely down with power on and power off. He will be taught the correct procedure for landing and taking off from a short airfield. Having mastered these various phases of his flying training, the student becomes ready for the first of the progress tests which he will receive throughout the course. If he is considered to have achieved a satisfactory standard by the instructor who examines him, he will, be eligible for his first solo flight. This, of course, is a big day in his flying life. Invariably, the stqdent will carry out an imma­ culate performance. The first solo consists of one take off, one circuit and one landing. The successful completion of the flight involves a tradition which has become well establish­ ed in the air force today. The Student is met by a ‘welcoming committee’ aS Jie walks into the flight from his aircraft. His neck­ tie is clipped, his name is in­ scribed upon it, and it is hung up in the position of honor with these of other members of his flight who have soloed before him. Should the time of the ycat be winter, our student is usually buried forcibly in a convenient snowbank, or else he lias his en­ thusiasm cooled a little by being thoroughly drenched with • cold water from one of the conven­ ient fire extinguishers located around the hangar. In summer the hapless student is quite often marched under escort to the station swimming pool, where he is immersed to the arcompanL mont of rauebus cheers and ri­ bald remarks from his collea­ gues, « The student continues to re­ ceive a great deal of dual in­ struction. However, after suit­ able: check tides, he will b& sent out for increasingly longer solo periods to practise the various manoeuvres which he learned and an area of de- II IPhone 102 for HARVEY'S TAXI 24-HOUR SERVICE Portable Phonograph parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rol- j co. I Sunday guests of M. II. and Mrs. Elston were Padre and Mrs. I McClean and girls, Centralia Air Station; Rev. and Mrs. N. D. Knox, Exeter, and the latter’s mother, Mrs. Fred Davis. Recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McFalls were Maxine Hicks and Miss Peggy Miller 1 and Phyllis Hicks of Flint, Mich. ston and their brother, David, with their cousins, Margaret Jean and Marion Gibson, Denfield. 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