BOYS LEARN TO FLY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 260, 1 October 1936, Page 9

BOYS LEARN TO FLY.

HOLIDAY CAMP IN ENGLAND. Eleven schoolboys are attending the public schools’ aviation camp at Mousehold aerodrome, near Norwich (wrote a correspondent on August 20). The earliest age at which they are admitted is 17. Only four of them had flown before coming to Mousehold aerodrome a week or two ago, but now’ every boy has flown solo. It is expected that by the end of the week they will all have qualified for their pilot’s “A” licenses. The final fortnight of the camp will then be devoted to such things as cross-country flying, forced landing practice, and blind flying instruction. Experience has shown, it is said, that this camp helps to spread airmindedness in the schools and provides a means by which some of the boys may prepare themselves lor the profession of aviation. Ten boys attended the first public schools’ aviation camp two years ago, and about 20 last year. Fourteen of them have since received commissions in the Royal Air Force. One boy who learned to fly at the camp was placed seventh out of 180 competitors in the examination for the Royal Air Force at Cranwell.