A Reservoir of Airmen
Preparations for a new long-term training scheme to increase the number of pilots, navigators and technicians available for service with the R.A.F. were announced last week by Sir Archibald Sinclair. The time will come when in the com- petition for air supremacy the provision of skilled airmen will become a more difficult problem than the production of enough aeroplanes. There are clear signs that already Germany is more concerned about pilots and navigators than about machines. In our own case, as our production continues to increase and more aeroplanes arrive from America, we shall need more and more trained men. Happily at the present time the new recruits are known to be shaping well, and they will be worthy colleagues of those who shone in the battles of last summer. those must be a constant flow to satisfy the needs of an nding Force, and it was a sound idea to initiate a training me for promising young men on a national scale. The used Air Training Corps provides pre-entry training for dates for air crew and technical duties. Under one part e scheme the Air Ministry is arranging a six months' for young men hoping to obtain commissions. Selected will become members of the University and go through a e specially fitting them for future service in the R.A.F. It teresting to hear that Mr. J. F. Wolfenden, Headmaster ppingham, is to act as Director of Pre-entry Training.
er units of the Corps are to be formed at public and ndary schools, and locally throughout the country. By e means thousands of young men, carefully selected and bly prepared, should ultimately become available to swell number of trained airmen, and enable the personnel of the Force to keep pace with the material.
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