Evening star., 1936-03-01

Candidates selected for training
vicinity will be put through course
of elimination flight training in these
classes. For a candidate to receive
consideration he must make applica.
ton at least two months prior to COM
mencement of the class in which he
wishes to be enrolled, it was explained
by Lieut.. M. B. johnson, U. s. N. r.,
in charge of the Reserve Department
at the local station. Applications for
the first class will be received up to
March is by Lieut.. johnson at the lo-
cal station and will be given consid-
Grafton in order Of receipt.
Candidates must be between 20 and
% years of age at time of appointment
as aviation cadet, following the month
of preliminary training here. The
candidate must agree to remain on
active duty four years, including the
one-year period Of training at Pensa-
cola, Fla. He must be unmarried and
must remain single during the entire
period of active duty. He must agree
to maintain flying efficiency after
esving the active service by associ-
ating himself with q Naval Reserve
aviation unit.
Preference will be given to graduates
of recognized colleges or universities,
especially to graduates of Naval Re-
serve Oficers' Training Corps units
who have been certified by the Bureau
of Navigation, Navy Department. as
eligible for commission in the Naval
Reserve, and to those who have COM
pleted satisfactorily course in aero
nautical engineering.
Aviation cadets will be eligible. II
qualified, after completion of their
period of active duty, for commission
in the Naval Reserve, with date of
precedence as of date of appointment
as aviation cadet.
Flight training will be given in three
phases:
First, the selected applicant will be
enlisted as seaman, second class, VS..
in the Naval Reserve and will be given
a months course in elimination flight
training at the local air station. Dur
ing this period the candidates qualifi-
cations for appointment as cadet will
be determined. He will receive pay
and allowances of his rating during
the elimination training period.
Second, the candidates who complete
the training period successfully will be
appointed aviation cadets and sent to
the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla,
for a year of primary and advanced
flight training.
Third, upon successful completion OF
the fight course at Pensacola, the
candidate will be appointed naval
aviator and assigned to active duty as
an aviation cadet in the Aircraft
Squadrons, United States Fleet, for
the remainder of the four-year period
he has agreed to serve.
Pay Of aviation cadets while on
active duty undergoing training will
be at the rate of $75 month, in
cluding extra pay for flying. Their
pay while on active duty with the
squadrons will be at the rate OF Sl25
q month, with extra pay for flying,
and extra subsistence allowance OF
81 per day and a uniform allowance
of $3.50. Government life insurance
in the amount of $4,000 will be made
out and premiums paid by the Gov
ernment. Upon leaving active duty,
cadets may continues these policies at
their own expense. Cadets, upon re-
lease from active duty of four years
or more, will be paid lump sum OF
$500, in addition to any pay and
allowance to which they may be en-
titled.
Full details and application blanks
may be obtained from Lieut.. johnson
in the Reserve Department, Anacostia
Naval Air Station.
The "autogiro," long sort OF hy-
brid airplane, has emerged after q
chrysalis period of about two years
as full -fedged autogiro, divorced
of its airplane characteristics. 1t
now seems fairly on the road to be-
coming the first successful non-con-
ventional form of flying craft since
the Wright brothers made their first
airplane flight at Kitty Hawk In 1908.
The first autogiros, with their ro-
tating wings and their conventional
airplane control surfaces, were ad-
mittedly not successful. They lacked
control at the critical periods of take
off and landing, especially at the
slower ranges of speed, and were con-