Extending the Civilian Plot Training Act of 1939
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Excerpt from Extending the Civilian Plot Training Act of 1939: Wednesday, February 2, 1944 In short, we must make it useful, safe and easy for people to fly, and I have what I call the use program for reaching that objective. This program consists of four principal items:(1) Mass aviation education;(2) development of landing areas and navigational aids;(3) wise regulations; and(4) research, human and technical. My testimony today will concern itself with the first of these, mass aviation education. When the civilian pilot training program was undertaken, there were no guaranties of results. It happens that most of the results have so far been reaped in the form of contributions to our war effort. But, in the beginning, we did not know whether war would come abroad or here or when war would come, if at all. We did not know how many pilots would be needed by the armed forces. We did know, however, that large numbers of military pilots would be needed, and that pilot training would make men and women more efficient at a hundred and one jobs other than piloting. We did know that the airplane was a new and extremely important instrument at the disposal of man and that familiarity with it was a valuable asset for anyone to have, in war or in peace. Today we are in the same situation except that, instead of facing the possibility of war, we face the certainty of peace in a far different kind of world than we have ever known before - a three-dimensional world. Only truly air-conditioned people know and understand that the world has become a neighborhood, a world on which the most distant spot is only 60 hours away. In that kind of a world, a nation of fliers is the best protection in time of war and in time of peace. No aggressor nation would dare attack a nation of fliers, a nation really equipped to live in a three-dimensional world. We have at hand a program for making a nation of fliers, a program which has proved its worth; an efficient, going concern that can step in almost at a minutes notice to begin again its work in the air-conditioning process. We should not allow that mechanism to disintegrate. We should not allow the skills of its personnel or its facilities to go unused. The air-conditioning process is a continuing necessity, in war, in peace, in depression, in prosperity. Children continue to be born, about two-and-a-half million of them every year. The high schools continue to operate, normally with about 7, 000, 000 students every year. A new crop of citizens to be air-conditioned presents itself each year, regardless of economic, social, or political conditions, and our present high-school students offer a challenge to the air-conditioners. The existing organization of flight operators, schools and administrative personnel could well be used to begin at once on the high school age group. This is not a new idea. The Civil Aeronautics Administration conducted an experimental flight training program in 22 selected high schools over the country, and that experiment proved conclusively that high-school students, trained in a properly controlled course, can fly just as well and just as safely as their older brothers-in the colleges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of suc
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