“CIRCUITS AND BUMPS”

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24150, 8 January 1944, Page 7

“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 air 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, doin« seemingly endless “circuits and bumbs.” (Air Force language for flying circuits and landings.) Pilots of the Royal New Zealand Air Force are trained on Tiger Moth aircraft entirely built fit the big de Hayilland 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 400 skilled technical workers are employed at the New Zealand d Havilland factory. They are playing a big part in one of the most important branches of the Dominion’s war effort. —1