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Show Navy Launches Training Program For 30,000 Fighter Pilots Yearly The most extensive training program in all naval history is now underway. It is designed to train navy and marine corps fighter and bomber pilots at a starting rate of 30,000 a year. Facilities in jour universities, in the East, South, Midwest and Western sections oj the country will be rented by the navy for the duration of the tear, each to be an "Annapolis of the Air." These pictures show various phases of aviation cadet training. I -VW 'ft. X j Above: Models are being j used in range estimation and gunnery training. As the models are built on a scale of an inch to represent repre-sent six feet, the student se: ... can see by looking at a model through a gun- i sight at a distance of 10 feet how the actual plane would appear at a distance of 240 ' yards. 'h I -VW 'ft. X j Above: Models arc being . " ' used in range estimation s V f$ , and gunnery training. As v . ' t " i the models are built on a ssn x j scale of an inch to repre- " sent six feet, the student v - , ' t can see by looking at a 1 '1 model through a gun- x 3 ' sight at a distance of v " , 10 feet how the actual ' 1 J plane would appear v . ' , . s ' at a distance of 240 yM4kfi f yards. ' ' . S- FNfiV 4 i D H1 .a'I Above: Precision sh0Te. at the,v- s- XJSi 91 , 1 naval air station, gun. H?"1"' sMssiKisaaK 1 nery range at Corpus j! . f I J" f Christi,Texas.Left: Avi- I ajf y o'on cadets at the naval & ''1Bif'l air station at Pensacola, . , Fla., receive instructions saaiajjgsgiiS on rowing. Above: Precision shooting at the U. S. naval air station's gunnery gun-nery range at Corpus Chnsli, Texas. Left: Aviation Avi-ation cadets at the naval air station at Pensacola, Fla., receive instructions on rowing. fete W.fc!& 4 mr- ivv! p. -a k H w h Aviation cadets at Pensacola receiving instructions in the use of the plotting board as part of their course of training. ? 4 t - S,'X- '"-',, - -i ' The gunnery officer and a group of aviation cadets examine a practice bomb. Loaded bombs are often fondly called "Hawaiian pineapples." ( Official V. S. navy photos.) Commander D. F. Bogan administers the oath to newly gradw uted cadets accepting commissions at Miami, Fla. |