What it took to get wings in WW II.

But when we add up the wash-out rates from day one physicals and tests then
add basic training, CTD, Classification then flying schools, the total has to
be well over 95%.

I think that estimate is much too high. I don't know how many pilots
there were in the Air Corps during WW II (are you also including
bombardiers and navigators?), but if they were only two or three
percent of the number who started, then the starting number would have
to have been larger than the entire U.S. male population!

Roughly speaking.

vince norris

Subject: What it took to get wings in WW II.
From: vincent p. norris
Date: 7/14/03 7:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id:

But when we add up the wash-out rates from day one physicals and tests
then
add basic training, CTD, Classification then flying schools, the total has
to
be well over 95%.

I think that estimate is much too high. I don't know how many pilots
there were in the Air Corps during WW II (are you also including
bombardiers and navigators?), but if they were only two or three
percent of the number who started, then the starting number would have
to have been larger than the entire U.S. male population!

Roughly speaking.

vince norris



How can you know that when you don't know the final number?

Arthur Kramer
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