Excerpt from The International Military Digest Annual: A Review of the Current Literature of Military Science for 1917

The following system of training for the thousands of aviators needed by Great Britain has been devel oped during the war: After the pupil has learned to ¿y, he is sent to one of the colleges thruout the country that have been transformed into engine instruction schools. There he receives thoro training in all classes of rotary and stationary engines.

Next the pupil is sent to an aerial gunnery school, and there trained in shooting with a Lewis machine gun placed in a Vickers fighting gun-bus. The pupil must shoot at small balloons of about the size of a football, which are attached to the tail of another ma chine. Passing ou to the aero bombing school, he is trained in the art of dropping bombs at moving and stationary objects on the ground.

Next comes the school of aircraft wireless, where the pupil learns to direct the fire of different types of guns from the air at a distance of 8 to 10 miles and at a height of 6000 feet.

The pilot is next taken to a stunt school, where he must ¿y in all kinds of weather and must master the various tricks such as the loop and sideslip, outside Slip and the spinning nose dive.

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