"CIRCUITS AND BUMPS"
Evening Post, Rōrahi CXXXVII, Putanga 72, 25 Poutūterangi 1944, Page 9
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"CIRCUITS AND BUMPS"
TRAINING R.N.Z.A.F. PILOTS
Throughout England, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand there are many Elementary Flying Training Schools, where the intrepid young pilots of the Empire's Air Forces go through their flying a b c. Above these schools, the dr is usually alive with planes—the great majority of which are de Havilland Tiger Moth primary trainers—in which the budding fighter pilots and bomber captains are learning to fly "straight and level," mastering climbing turns, doing seemingly endless "circuits and bumps" (Air Force language for flying circuits and landings.)
Pilots of the Royal New Zealand Air Force are trained on Tiger Moth aircraft entirely built -at the big de Havilland aircraft factory in Wellington which belongs to the great de Havilland Aircraft World Formation, designers and manufacturers of the de Havilland Mosquito, world's fastest aircraft and the de Havilland passenger planes, well-known to air travellers prior to the war. Nearly four hundred skilled technical workers are employed at the New Zealand de Havilland factory. They are playing a big part in one of the most important branches of the Dominion's war effort. Dni.
