Show wings for glider pilots al 11 it vict W par before a student makes his first solo flight in simulated glider landing art an instructor carefully checks with hint him to make sure that he knows just ichak to do here an instructor goes over dead stick landing rules eiith avith the pre glider student NEWEST winged warriors of the army air forces are arc the G men of the air glider pilots who will guide our huge troop carrying gliders in the fore of great aerial offensive against the enemy gliding until recently the sport of a few has now become the serious war business of thousands of young men who are training to become glider pilots typical of the eighteen pre glider schools now in full operation in the middle west is the one located on the flatlands of goodland kansas during the four weeks of preliminary training the stude student nt practices simulated gliding in small power ships with the power switched off kofl he masters the technique of dead stick landing and in bringing his powerless plane down within a small marked area in actual combat he will be called upon to cut loose from the towing plane thousands of feet up and miles away from his objective behind enemy lines from then on he is on his own 2 11 1 glider pilot students leaving the t e the space marked reserved is for operations office of the school with u th the army air forces silver insignia parachutes strapped on wings with a glider imposed this glider pilot training in the army air forces is open to men between the ages of 18 and 36 inclusive who are graduates of civil pilot training schools or who hold a civil aeronautics administration private airman air man certificate which had not basped prior to january 1 1941 or to former aviation cadets cabets with at least fifty hours in army or navy type training planes or veterans of at least two hundred glider flights men who have had no previous flight training will be given an opportunity to qualify for glider pilot training if they are accepted for a complete special primary flight training in a civil aeronautics administration school these pictures depict stages of the training given at goodland kansas V A before the students are ready to make simulated glider landings they are given meteorology and other subjects here students are shown shoun the characteristics a of a glider T alv A W 4 N 4 the idea is to land the glider as near us as possible to this hhite marker here is how the marker looks to the student strident coming in for a lead dead stick landing I 1 Z a W 5 madr made front from another plane flying alongside the students this picture shoats shams the training plane piano just as the glider pilot turned off the switch for a gliding approach to one of the auxiliary landing fields |