Word: preflight
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...biggest single job cut out for U.S. high schools is preflight training. To fly, navigate, fight and service the 185,000 planes the U.S. is scheduled to produce by the end of 1943, more than 2,000,000 trained young men will be needed. There are easily 2,000,000 willing aspirants now in high school: 75% of all students questioned have voted for aeronautics courses. Despite a shortage of teachers, plans are well along to give them what they want. Last week...
...Government provided some blueprints: a 90-hour pre-induction course in high schools and colleges to train the specialists the Army needs; preflight aviation courses for high-school boys; hard drill in every school on mathematics and physics. But college presidents got no answer to their biggest question: how much longer would they be able to keep their students and keep open their colleges...
Chin Up. The Battle of the Pacific has demonstrated the need for flyers who can handle themselves in water. Preflight cadets are taught to swim in waterlogged uniforms, to master the chin-up breast stroke instead of the crawl, to swim under water, to strive for endurance rather than speed. At the end of the three-month course, each man should be able to stay afloat for five hours...
Chest Out. Preflight's track is not the track of the Olympic Games but a specialty called military track. Its main event, the 60-yd. obstacle run, is the most grueling thing in the preflight program. Its 25 obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time...
...Carolina) were not crowing last week. Reason: most of the 3,500 cadets now in training will have graduated by the eve of the football season. Cadets will then be arriving and leaving every two weeks. Barring this slight difficulty with personnel, by mid-October the Navy's preflight football teams should be rolling like Army...