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Show Air Pilots Learn Water Tricks To Save Lives When Shot Down Pilots who are shot down over the water, the navy figures, can be saved to fight the Axis another day. To protect tljeir lives and the $27,000 investment in-vestment placed in the training of each navy flier, naval aviation officials of-ficials are making sure that all flying fly-ing cadets are subjected to plenty of water training at the Pre-Flight schools. Although 70 per cent of the cadets can pass the navy's basic swimming requirements, everyone at the Iowa Pre-Flight school is given tough training not only in swimming but in other water tricks that may help save their lives later. The 30 per cent that can't swim well enough to pass the tests are given special drills in the big University of Iowa pool where they are taught to float by inflating their pants and shirts. |