Northlanders Pass Air Force Examination

Northern Advocate, 23 May 1941, Page 3

Northlanders Pass Air Force Examination

The following Whangarei Air Force trainees have passed the Air Force preliminary examinations, held yn May 5 and 6:— ■ Whangarei.—Class: Bedggood, B. H.; Crozier, A.; Flavell, N. W.; George, K. E.; Millar, E. E.; Wark, J. I. Correspondence: Andrewes, L. G.; Croucher, W. C.; Cumsty, F. W. R.; Durham, D.; Henwood, H. C.; Hopkins, W. H.; Kay, D.; Stansell, G. E.: Watters, V. Selected for Air Crews

The Director of Educational Services (Mr E. Caradus) says that all the men listed are men who have been selected provisionally for the air crew either as airmen pilots, air observers or air gunners.

The fact that they have now passed this preliminary educational test means that, if medically fit, they will be posted to the Ground Training School at Levin within the next few weeks for training as airmen pilots, air observers or air gunners. “All men selected for the air crew are now required to satisfactorily complete the preliminary educational course, owing first to the fact that it brings them up to the necessary standard in mathematics and elementary science if they were at the outset below this standard, and secondly, to the fact that the course includes many matters, such as elementary air navigation, theory of flight, map projections and meteorology, which are included in the course at the Ground Training School and which aid the work being done at that station. Air Force preliminary tests are held some six or seven times a year on the completion of each course of instruction. Further Courses No. 6 Air Force Preliminary Educational Course commenced on Monday, May 12, and most of the men interviewed within the last few weeks have been posted to that course. No. 7 Course will commence on Monday, June 30.

The lists of passes are supplied in two main groups: . (1) Those men who have been attending Air Force classes in centres reached by your paper. (2) Those men who have been receiving correspondence instruction from Air Headquarters, but who have been examined in centres at the same time as the men in the first group. Most of these men were on No. 4 Long or No. 5 Short Air Force Preliminary Educational Course.