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...Preflight Training...
...training and off-duty courses given to servicemen and merchant mariners. George P. Tuttle, registrar (on leave) of the University of Illinois, and his small staff have already appraised hundreds of courses, expect to cover nearly a thousand before they are through. Sample: the Army Air Forces' preflight training program assays no credit in college, six semester-hours in junior college, one unit in high school...
Classes in the sky will be held for the first time in a course to be given here this summer by the Graduate School of Education to high school teachers of preflight aeronautics and allied subjects. The unique requirement of this course is that each student must take at least two hours of flight instruction. What they learn in flight experience will be applied in ground instruction...
...Navy preflight cadets...
Colgate's big job now is giving Navy preflight and other training to 650 cadets. (By July 1 there will be 1,083.) When the Navy chose Colgate as a preflight school, a dozen facultymen spent their Christmas holidays studying navigation. Others crammed mathematics, aerology, aircraft engines, flight principles, communications. Today many are teaching cadets what they themselves learned only a few weeks ago. Many still give peacetime courses...