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Hindsight is Always One Hundred Percent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Extract

The First time I ever saw an aeroplane was at the age of ten when the whole school was rushed out in the middle of class to see two small specks in the sky which I realised later were two Curtiss JN4 aircraft with OX5 engines, which were to be used for pilot training in Canada.

My first real interest in aviation was inspired by a lecture by the late Wing Commander Stedman, RCAF. This led to my being a provisional pilot officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force taking flying training.

Type
A Century of British Aeronautics
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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References

page 132 note * Ian H. Grabowsky: The Battle of the Transport Philosophies: Aircraft (Australia)—December 1962.

page 133 note * NACA TN 456.