The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-07-17
Last Chance to
Enroll i'm Federal
Flying School
Unusual opportunity
offered to young men
to enter newest field


ed the best opportunity for young
men between the ages of 10 and 26
to get into paying career in avia-
ton that has yet been worked out.
Brains, ambition and aptitude,
plus normal physical assets, are all
that are now required to gain en-
trance into flying career for any
young American, and the education
al requirements are lowered. Native
ability, interest and perseverance
in studying the ground school course
is of more Importance now than COL
lege hours, and any student who en-
rolls in the summer session civilian
pilot training school now being con-
Quoted for Eastern Washington at
Pasco will have an opportunity to go
straight thru primary and secondary
courses to commercial or instruct
or's ticket, if he can pass the COM
petitive examination and shows ap-
titude in handling an airplane.
The class is not full yet for this
section of the state, and any young
man who would like to take his fly
ing at government expense should
find out the requirements as soon
as possible, by applying to DR.. j. l..
Greenwell at Pasco for his physical
examination, filling out an applica-
ton blank such as we have on hand
in this newspaper office, getting
down to Pasco Tuesday or Thursday
evenings at 7:30 in the high school
or Saturday evenings from 500 to
$3.50. Girls are not eligible for this
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS training, but
they can enroll in the ground school
non-competitively and if they pass
the PIP test, are granted private
pilots certificate which when the
required flying hours have been
made and the physical passed, gives
them the same right as any other
private pilot to fly a plane any
where i'm the United States, and to
take friends along with them.
There is the immediate possibility
that if an insufficient number of
students are enrolled in the Eastern
Washington ground school it will he
taken west of the mountains. Com
petitors are already enrolled from
Walla WaIla, Grandview, Sunnyside,
Connel, KenneWick, Othello and
Pasco, but there is time for any
young fellow who meets the quail
ficatioas to get into the class.
The secondary training center
for this part of the state is located
at Spokane. Bob Green of Pasco,
who passed first in the Fall Session
ground school, is eligible for this
training and has taken his secondary
physical examination. He, with IL
other young men from all over the
district, will get 160 hours of flight
training which will enable him to
become an instructor or commercial
plot, either profession being well
paid and assuring the holder of the
ticket to position Immediately. The
total cos. is around $50 which in
cludes living expenses and text books
along with the secondary physical.
The secondary enrolleeS put IN all
their time at a course in ground
work and flight training, which gives
the college opt student the adj
vantage of the college phase COM
petitor who has his college class
work to get done.
Any young man interested should
see DR.. Greenwich or some certified
GAIA physician to get his opt ex-
animation completed, then apply for
enrolment at the office of the city
superintendent of schools at Pasco,
or he can fill out an application
blank at the Franklin county air
port where Forrest Hart has the gov
eminent contract for training the
free flight scholarship winners from
the first two ground schools held In
this district. The cost of physical
examination is $500 and it re
quires normal physical ability, being
not nearly so rigid as the army
physical examination.
It is imperative that any would
be competitor get started right away,
as the class work now deals with
Civil Air Regulations, one OF the
most important parts of the course.
Information can be obtained at the
office OF, your local newspaper or by
writing to opt Coordination, Pasco
Public Schools, PaSco.