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Major Bill March, a historian with the Royal Canadian Air Force, is quoted as saying of the early pilots “they used to call themselves the 20-Minute Club because the life expectancy of a new pilot in combat in 1916-17 was 20 minutes.”
I understand that in the early part of the war pilots were being sent into combat with less than 9 hours flying time – basically, they knew how to take-off. But of course, we all know that there is a lot more to it than that, being able to land is probably optimistic, but useful if the need presented itself.
Woof!
Educate yourself. Go back to the source Rowan stole from...
Slave trader, rapist, turncoat, scoundrel, bully, cad, thief, coward, and winner of the VC. General Sir Harry Padget Flashman, damn your eyes!
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That's grim, hadn't heard that before. I guess that the aces were the ones good at learning quickly and improvising.
I'm not an expert, but I can see the military minds of the time thinking that training people would be a waste of time because flying was so deadly. In their minds it would be like training people to swim across the Atlantic from New York to London; it was a matter of luck, not training.
imho
They use to call me the 2-Minute Club back in college.
You still pretending that you went to school?
[jk]
Had a buddy walk out during a community college placement test because it was getting too hard. I tried telling him the point of a placement test is to have hard questions but it never clicked.
I think we've all met that guy at least once.