R.A.F. EXPANSION
NEW PILOTS
REMARKABLE RESPONSE
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received February 26, 12.40 p.m.)
RUGBY, February 25.
The remarkable response made last year among young men eligible for service as pilots in the Royal Air Force to the announcement of the increased number of vacancies be filled as a result of the Government's air defence expansion programme has been not only equalled but beaten this year, when the number of vacancies was again larger.
The Air Ministry announces that although the number of pilots required by the Royal Air Force during the present year, which ends on March .31, has reached the total of 1750, the whole of that number had been obtained by the end of January. Of the total, approximately . 1300 have been accepted from candidates from civil life, and the balance, in accordance with the normal policy, are selected volunteers from serving airmen in the Royal Air Force. The total number of pilots who have been entered since the expansion began in 1935 now exceeds 4500.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1938, Page 9
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