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Show Cedar Man Trains To Fly 29-Ton Liberator Bombers U. Dee O. Cowan or Cedar City Is one of five men from Utah learning to fly massive 29-ton Liberator Lib-erator bombers at the Liberal Army Air Field at Liberal, Kansas, according accord-ing to word received from the field. Represtatlves of 39 of the 48 states are training at the new field. Liberal Army Air Field's training train-ing ls considered post-graduate work in pilot education. The student stud-ent is a gruduate of an advanced twin-engine flying and already wears the coveted wings of an Army pilot, but the four-engine dread-naught dread-naught he now files on a round-the-clock schedule in all types of weather is a huge stride from anything any-thing he ever flew before. The Consolidated-built giant weighs, for example, eight times as much as the bombing trainer he flew at advanced school. Its four, motors pack eight times the power of the biggest ship ever flew before. be-fore. The array of dials, buttons and indicators of his Instruments panel is more than twice as Intricate In-tricate as the collection of any training plane. To master the giant he later will fly Into combat, the student pilot will spend over 100 hours in tlie air half as many hours as he had accumulated during all his previous pre-vious training. In the classroom and engineering shop he will learn his ship from nose to tail. At the conclusion of his training . at Liberal Army Air Field, he will be rated as a first pilot and then be ready for his nex t and last training stop an over eas training unit for final work on tactical missions. |
