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...pleased with their new station, not only because it is within easy range of the U. S.'s maritime frontier, the Caribbean, but because it gives the Navy another training field for pilots. Rushed to completion to take some of the pressure off the big training base at Pensacola, Fla., Jacksonville will double the Navy's output of aviators. The Navy to day has only a few more than 3,000 pilots, a training capacity (at Pensacola) of 150 a month. Its goal of planes is 15,000, which will require 18,000 pilots. The Jacksonville base...
...purpose of the secondary course is to prepare the young pilots for commercial work or for training at government schools such as Langley Field or Pensacola. They will receive 126 hours of ground training and 40 to 50 hours flying practice in a 225-horsepower Waco training ship. The course will end January 15 when a new group will be chosen from the remaining applicants...
They were delighted to. If they survive a month of elimination training at Floyd Bennett, they will become cadets and learn to fly for the U. S. Navy at its great Pensacola Training Station. In the mean time they will have received ten hours of dual flight instruction, will get doused with water after they solo. If they then survive seven and a half months at Pensacola, they will acquire the Navy's wings of gold, the rank of ensign, monthly pay of $125 to $205. Then all they will have to do is keep their wings clean...
...Pensacola is now geared to take 150 a month (Floyd Bennett alone has 200 on its waiting list). With $45,000,000 to spend on new training facilities, the Navy by mid-1941 expects to have Pensacola up to 300 a month; a new, $25,000,000 station at Corpus Christi, Tex. up to another 300; a station at Jacksonville...
...limb. Around 70% of those originally selected qualify for Pensacola: 70% of the remainder survive the shortened but still tough course there...