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Arctic flights of the Aries, 1951

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

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The Royal Air Force Flying College at Manby in Lincolnshire, England, was established in 1949. During a training course lasting one year, experienced pilots and navigators study all aspects of the operation of an aircraft as a weapon of war. Such an all-embracing syllabus calls for a knowledge of air operations, backed by practical experience, in all parts of the world. Those taking part are introduced to some of the problems peculiar to cold-weather operation in high latitudes by a number of summer air exercises in the arctic regions, and by liaison flights in the winter months to Alaska and Canada.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1952

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page 477 note 1 See the Polar Record, Vol. 6, No. 42, 1951, p. 268CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

page 480 note 1 See p. 518–19.

page 480 note 2 See the Polar Record, Vol. 5, Nos. 33–34, 1947, p. 613CrossRefGoogle Scholar.