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The Service Flying Training School provided advanced training for pilots, including fighter and multi-engined aircraft. Other trainees went on to different specialties, such as wireless, navigation or bombing and gunnery. In South Africa, the Elementary Flying Training School and Service Flying Training School were renamed Air Schools. [1]
Jul 25, 2003 · But before OTU was a posting to the Maritime Reconnaissance Course at No. 61 Air School (SAAF) at George, Cape Province in South Africa. The flying there concentrated on sea navigation...
Jul 11, 2005 · I spent the last 4 years of the war in South Africa 2 years at 42 Air School in Port Elizabeth and 2 years at 43 Air School in Port Alfred.
Dec 29, 2016 · South Africa was invited to join the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan but decided instead to focus on domestic training, while its northern neighbour, British colony Southern Rhodesia, arranged a training agreement with the RAF at the outbreak of the Second World War.
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Whether there was any pressure on the callow young lad to enter the family business is unknown but on the 12th September 1940 at the age of 27, PJ Keating succumbed to the social pressure to assist his country in its hour of need, when he enlisted in the air force. His military record states that the unit to which he was assigned was the RAAF, as e...
Before these trainees could be inserted into the hurly-burly of war, there was a certain function, maybe even a rite of passage, which would have to be performed. Before departing for war, the 21 aircrew who had successfully completed course 6 A.N. would have to celebrate; a proper jollification but not debauchery. Wednesday 3rdMarch 1943 was selec...
‘https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Commonwealth_Air_Training_Plan_facilities_in_South_Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Commonwealth_Air_Training_Plan Details and photos of Sergeant P.J. Keating supplied by Margaret Mackey of Tasmania, Australia https://www.facebook.com/PESAAFM/ ‘https://australiana.org.au/resources/magazine_...
68 Air School has an interesting and colourful history that originated in 1936 when the first students of the Special Service Battalion were transferred to the South African Air Force. Let us obtain a glimpse of the historical events, which led to the foundation 68 Air School as it is today:
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Jun 5, 2000 · The building up of the South African Army and Air Force, September 1939 to September 1941. When South Africa declared war against Germany on 6 September 1939, there were apparently 352 officers and 5 033 other ranks in the UDF Permanent Force (PF), and 918 officers and 12 572 other ranks in the Active Citizen Force (ACF).
