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Show California Group Here For Flight Training Flight training for six students under the direction of W. D- Bas-sett Bas-sett got underway this week from the local field. This group formerly form-erly were in training at Santa Paula! Calif., but due to the government gov-ernment order prohibiting all planes other than military and airliners air-liners from the air in the Coast district, a transfer of training fields became necessary. The government gov-ernment order prohibits -flying within a distance of 150 miles of the Coast. Permission to use this field had to be secured from the government govern-ment and state officials as well as local officials, reports Lee Owens, airport manager. Mr. Owens explains that in the crosscountry cross-country flying the boys use a larger plane than in the classes which have been conducted here. They karn to' fly by instruments, making flights that take them a considerable distance from the field. Later they leam to fly at night, using their instruments entirely en-tirely for their guidance. |