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Show MOVING PfflE American Aviators in England Have a Remarkable Three-r Three-r Weeks' Course. AN AMERICAN AVIATION TRAINING TRAIN-ING CAMP IN ENGLAND, July 31 (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The moving picture is being widclv used in Ihc training of. Ameri-i Ameri-i can p'ilots in this country. The young Ii flying ofllccrs who are sent to the Arniument school here lo acquaint ? themselves with the use of airplane ' guns nnd gungears find their three- weeks course a most Interesting one, owing partly to the large share which the moving picture machine plays in the instruction. The pupil is not required to sit out a lengthy lecture read aloud from the notes of "an instructor, nstead. the various var-ious branches of gunnery training, such as the stripping assembling of guns, and the various points to be observed before, during and after flight, are demonstrated by films, accompanied ac-companied by concise explanations by , competent o'fficcrs. Frequently a film is run over the I. screen several times at different speeds so that the pupil gets a very intimate Idea of the process being illustrated. il-lustrated. Monotony and complexity, find no place in this method of training. train-ing. The films standardize the correct methods, and their instructional value is far-reaching. The film work is not confined to gunnery alone, but is continued con-tinued In the other technical courses, such as aerial tactics and bomb dropping. drop-ping. According to British instructors, the use of the film has shortened and improved the course of training m theso departments very materially. - nn |