TILTING.
CADET SPORTS.
ENGINE TEST, CAMP BORDEN.
ENGINE REPAIR, CAMP BORDEN.
The peculiar path taken by a bomb in falling from a machine with a forward momentum imparted by the speed of the machine, needed very special mathematical calculation to enable the pilot to release it at a considerable distance from his objective, and to this end a variety of bomb sights were explained and practised with from dummy machines with unfused bombs over mechanically moving scenery.
The flying camps, to which cadets were posted on the completion of their course in elementary gunnery, carried on further practices in coöperation with this school, and instructors were sent to these wings from time to time to coöperate, and to insure that no gaps or overlaps occurred in the cadet’s training. By this means the pilot who left this country for overseas was assured that he had covered every section of the field of armament, and that no situation was likely to occur during his flying career with which he could not deal.
In addition to the training of embryo pilots, courses of instruction were conducted for observers, during which, for a period of three weeks, they were made competent to handle the gun which they would be required to use overseas. By the use of guns with camera attachment, recording a photograph on a graduated screen instead of firing a shot, the resultant photograph revealed to the observer the effect of his shoot, and his graduation was not considered complete until he was able to produce a collection of photographs which evidenced an automatic and deadly aim.
During the period in which this School operated, an average of more than 400 cadets per month was instructed, and the record which each carried overseas showed a complete and thorough course of ground training performed entirely under Canadian tuition.