{"id":1692,"date":"2018-03-30T20:16:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=1692"},"modified":"2018-10-14T15:29:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T15:29:41","slug":"advanced-flight-training-february-1944","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/advanced-flight-training-february-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 11: Advanced Flight Training, February to April, 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3219\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AAF-VI-img568.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3219\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AAF-VI-img568-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"Standard Flying Training Stages for Pilots\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AAF-VI-img568-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AAF-VI-img568.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Standard Flying Training Stages for Pilots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Army_Air_Forces_Training_Command#cite_note-ATC-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><b>Advanced Pilot Training<\/b>\u00a0placed the graduates in two categories: single-engined and multi-engined. Single-engined pilots flew fighters and fighter-bombers. Multi-engined pilots learned to fly transports and bombers. First they flew Trainer aircraft, then transitioned to front-line aircraft. Those students selected for single-engine training flew the AT-6 &#8220;Texan,&#8221; and those who went into twin-engine training flew the Curtiss AT-9 &#8220;Jeep,&#8221; the all-wood Beechcraft AT-10 &#8220;Wichita,&#8221; or the Cessna AT-17 &#8220;Bobcat.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-ATC_1-25\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Army_Air_Forces_Training_Command#cite_note-ATC-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia: Advanced Pilot Training\u00a0placed the graduates in two categories: single-engined and multi-engined. Single-engined pilots flew fighters and fighter-bombers. Multi-engined pilots learned to fly transports and bombers. First they flew Trainer aircraft, then transitioned to front-line aircraft. Those students selected for single-engine training flew the AT-6 &#8220;Texan,&#8221; and those who went into twin-engine training flew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/advanced-flight-training-february-1944\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chapter 11: Advanced Flight Training, February to April, 1944<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":50,"menu_order":110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1692\/revisions\/3220"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}