FLYING SCHOLARSHIP

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 13

FLYING SCHOLARSHIP

TOMORROW LAST DAY

THE GENERAL CONDITIONS

NO PREVIOUS TUITION

Tomorrow is the last day far application for participation in the second section of the "Evening Post" Aviation Scholarship. Entries must bo forwarded to the office of the Wellington Aero Club, Dominion Fanners' Institute building, 'or to tho Eongotai aerodrome not later than 5 p.m. The scheme is intended to encourage young people to take a practical interest in ilying, and the fact that an intending entrant knows nothing whatever of flying is certainly no obstacle. Actually it is a main condition that entrants shall have had no previous flying tution, though they may. profit from text book study as greatly as they are able to do. • Before competitors are taken up on their test flights the ' instructor (Squadron-Leader Stedman) describes the various controls and .the manner in which they are operated. This preliminary ground instruction, though brief, covers all main principles' of straight flying, the competitor not being called on to consider take-off and landing control, for that comes later. The . machine is then . started up and taken into the air, and actual flying control is demonstrated by the instructor for ton miuutee. - A HEAL THRILL. The duplicate controls are then left to tiio competitor for ten minutes, the instructor holding his controls free but ready to counter any wrong movement of control, and points arc awarded according to the success of the competitor in his or her first attempt. There is'thus a good deal moro than just a dual flight trip thrill in this tost flight —there is a real "kick" in handling an aeroplane for the first time, given the assurance that .a capable pilot will rectify anything not according to the book. Tho six competitors who score highest points are to be given further'test flights, on-a stiffer marking system, and the best of these six will be declared the winner of N the competition, and, without further cost, will be carried through the full course of training to qualify for an "A" grade pilot's licence. THE KINGSFORD SMITH CUP. As the competition has been divided into two sections, two competitors will be given the full pilot's course, and between them will lie the final competition, for the Kingsford Smith Cup, to be awarded to the finalist who'scores highest points in the actual pilot's examination by the Director of Air Services (Squadron-Leader T. tM. Wilkes). • : ' It is to be noted that though entries j must be sent in by tomorrow night, or posted by then, the testing 6f applicants will be continued next week and probably after that. Applicants should state -~on. their forms the day, and if possible the lour, on which they wish to make their first flights. 'The club i wishes to complete the first stages of the competition next week, but if necessary the preliminary tests can bo carried on into, the next week. . . , 'The entry fee is 20s, and the competition is open to anyone of British nationality over the age of 17 years, but previous air tuition is an absolute bar bo participation.