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Old April 30th 04, 05:33 PM
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:00:15 -0400, vincent p. norris
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Yeah, I've heard and read that many times. The same was said about WW
II.


Vince, I'm not sure WWII training was as dangerous as that of WWI. I
don't see how it could have been. The trainers of WWI were a
hodgepodge of many types and few things were normalised as they are
now. They stalled abrubtly, had extremely steep power off descent and
were very unstable on the ground. In addition, the unreliability of
the engines was legendary. For a while, few individuals understood
how much training was necessary to qualify a person as a bonified
pilot.

Given that situation, it's not surprising how high the fatality rate
was. When you graduate your students, who had only a few hours total
time, from the "relatively" stable trainer to the Camel, which was
ridiculously unstable, of course there were lots of accidents.

Corky Scott