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...this record neither Sir Frederick nor the R.A.F. takes full credit. The ferry route was pioneered last year by the civilian Atlantic Ferry Organization ("Atfero" for short) headed by a Montreal banker, Morris W. Wilson. Atfero hired the pilots, planned the routes, selected the airports. set up weather and radiocommunication stations. Sir Frederick's job was to smooth out rough spots until flying the Atlantic became a matter of routine...
Routine. Much of the routine is already achieved, as the record indicates. The biggest problem that Sir Frederick had to face when he began to turn Atfero into an R.A.F. organization was personnel...
...Under Atfero all the planes were flown by civilian pilots, a choice Hollywood mixture of formula-wise young airline men, resourceful bush-flyers from the Canadian north, tough oldtimers who were veterans of everything from the Spanish Civil War to back-pasture flying services. The attraction was $1.000 a month ($800 for navigators, $500 for radiomen...
Once in Canada, the planes will be handed over to Great Britain's civilian Atlantic Ferry Service ("Atfero"). Officially, no U.S. Army pilots will fly bombers across the Atlantic. Unofficially, it is no secret that since the transocean ferry service was started last year, at least 100 U.S. Army pilots have made the trip. In Great Britain, scores of U.S. Army fledglings are flying in their own school squadrons, learning all that World War II can teach them about combat piloting (nominally in "noncombat areas"). If some of Colonel Olds's ferrymen get similar experience in transatlantic bombery...
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