INDIAN AIR EFFORT
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Ccpvrlgbt LONDON, November 15. The system of trafning for the Royal Air Force has now been extended to an Empire-wide scale. Apart from the main centre in Canada, where 2000 recruits are nor/ training with a waiting list of between 10,000 and 15,000, traln’ng stations -or Indian Air Force pilots are opening in India, where native princes have given large sums for the development of air defence. The Nizam of Hyderabad is financing an entire Air Force squrdron. Pilots are also being instructed in Iraq where fuel is immediately available, and numbers of pupils from Australia and New Zealand will be trained in Egypt Under exceptionally favourable climatic conditions. An Indian Air Force Volunteer Reserve is being created, and flights are being established at Karach., Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, and Delhi. The flights will be primarily for coast defence duties in India. The establishment of these flights is to be permanent and not an emergency measure.
Colonel C. W. Meredith, commanding the Southern Rhodesian Air Force, is in Britain studying Royal Air Force training.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21504, 17 November 1939, Page 7
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180INDIAN AIR EFFORT Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21504, 17 November 1939, Page 7
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