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Show DON ANDERSON TO RECEIVE FLYING COMMISSION ' Flying Cadet Don Rex Anderson, Ander-son, air corps, U. S. army, son of Dr. and Mrs. John R. Anderson, of 357 South Main, Springville, has commenced the final phases of his flying training at the air corps advanced flying school, Maxwell Max-well field, Montgomery, Alabama. He came to the Montgomery flying fly-ing school on March 17 from the air corps basic flying school, Gun-ter Gun-ter field, Montgomery, Ala., where he had been undergoing instruction instruc-tion for ten weeks. Prior to his arrival at the local air schools, he had undergone ten weeks of instruction in-struction at a government-supervised civilian elementary flying school, where fundamental aeronautical aero-nautical and ground training was given. He acquired 130 hours, dual and solo, in primary and basic training planes in the elementary and basic phases. Flying Cadet Anderson is to graduate from the advanced flying fly-ing school at Montgomery on May 2 9. Colonel Albert L.' Sneed, air corps, the commandant, said the purpose of the advanced flying school was to qualify flying cadets in the basic duties of Junior officers offi-cers in the United States army air corps. While at Maxwell field, Flying Fly-ing Cadet Anderson will fly 70 hours in a low-wing monoplane powered by a 600-horsepower motor mo-tor on familiarization flights, individual indi-vidual accuracy, formation, night and time and distance navigation problems. In addition he will re- LOCAL BOY MAKES STRIDE IN AVIATION (Continued from page one) celve at least 10 hours of Link Trainer Instruction. He is also undergoing un-dergoing ground school training in military organization, signal communications, code practice (in which he must attain a proficiency of eight words per minute), combat com-bat orders, sciuadro;i duties of junior officers, infantry drills and ceremonies, and pistol practice. At the completion of the course, May 29, 1941, Flying Cadet Anderson An-derson will be appointed second lieutenant, air corps reserve, receive re-ceive the military aeronautical rating of "pilot," his coveted "wings," and be assigned to extended ex-tended active duty training with a regular army air corps tactical squadron for a period of one year. |