On April 1st, cadets in training at the School, now called No. 4 School of Aeronautics, had reached 1,277, while the staff was composed of 26 officers and 230 non-commissioned officers and men, with the inevitable result that another residence was taken over from the University, with housing capacity for 185.
Again a flight was added to the course, this time for observers, and by July all cadets thus passing through the unit received instruction in aerial navigation, instruments, reconnaissance, organization of the Army and R.A.F., and general military knowledge, photography, engines, rigging and wireless.
In September, the process of engine instruction was still further advanced by discarding the fixed stands to which Curtiss engines had been rigidly attached, and substituting in their stead sections of aeroplane fuselages so balanced as to be capable of vertical adjustment, thus simulating the action of machines when in the air. To these were attached Clerget engines, which it was now proposed to use in conjunction with the Avro machines contemplated for flying instruction. This departure from the reciprocating to the rotary type made it necessary to organize special classes of tuition for non-commissioned officers and men from various flying units. In this course, the assistance given by the School Board of Toronto by the use of a portion of the Lippincott Technical School proved greatly to the advantage of the brigade.
R.A.F. Can.—School of Aeronautics Output of Pupils
Grand Total 6171
PARADE ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUS.
CADET CAMP, UNIVERSITY LAWN.
(Note “Aerial” of this Camp on [page 164].)