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Show Training Winged Gladiators At U. S. 'West Point of the Air' Vote that the government has launched its huge preparedness campaign, the classes at Randolph Field, Texas, Uncle Sam's "West Point of the Air," will be bigger than ever. The course consists of about 70 hours of flying, of which 30 hours are dual instruction and 40 hours solo. Civilian candidates must be unmarried male citizens of the United States, between 20 and 27, in excellent health. I 4 3 j; - I " . ! One of the ' ? $ classrooms at test i s s 4 Randolph Field. The -J l"x C J students are receiving uH' r f 1 $ If T f if instructions in radio code work. $$ - lJ n f p if If Messages are tapped from the ' ! i f ; sj j rostrum on a "buzzer." The stu '', I , I ' I j ( dents receive them through their 'i 'I i j ' ; s headsets and write them down. !,l !( L j ; 'j Three classes enter the school 'i j ' each year. j ; IP' The eyes of this cadet are undergoing un-dergoing a rigid test. Ears, heart and muscular action also come in for rigid inspection. - . This U. S. training plane is about to go into a slow roll, with a student pilot at one of the dual controls. Right: Model planes are used to demonstrate proper air technique. Parachute instruction. The cadets ca-dets are dropping the "skyhooks" with 200-pound dummies in a special room at Randolph Field. Almost 500 pilots- j-, ir t fcJL to-be are now in train- wig. tf "JPrnfM ing at Randolph Field, f' f W V t ! which at present has !:; jj Bfc&E. . V- ) 200 training planes. s t j - : J v, Photo shows student p? . cy VL ...yf L . pilots and planes just ' JVr" "t fi., -J"f -f t'- before the da.ly pro- fTfj, 'tV ( H I ' ! gram gets under way. 7J. H h ;tT f -JT .Vfr m r - y f Righf.Cahsthemcsare ,3f fl'f'lf tP-part tP-part of the strenuous A ,j , . H fj ',! , V daily routine the fly- f.,v ? i iSv.- .f j .V V:JL , -' ing cadets undergo in L.-X V' ' . V- being transformed to f . (nufj V full-fledged birdmen. U . ' "' j i r - - I On way to the training planes to go aloft in their first solo lest. I |