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A History of Canadian Naval Aviation, 1918-1962

29 Dec 2003

By mid-July the first two pilots had completed the course and successfully passed the examination of the Aero Club of Canada, whose rules were the same as the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom, and at month’s end ten pupils proceeded overseas to become members of either the RNAS or the Royal Flying Corps. [...] Commodore Hose, Chief of the Naval Staff, managed to Contacts with the Royal Navy during the lean years convince the Board of the importance of the navy to after the demise of the RCNAS were to have a strong Canada and the alarming proposal was dropped, but it influence on future Canadian planning for a second na- illustrates the precariousness of the times. [...] It was the victim of economy, international disarmament found that the air flow became broken up by the funnel agreements, conflicting theories and controversy as to and superstructure with the added hazard of smoke the respective responsibilities of the air force and the fumes to trouble the pilot; the carrier had to retire to navy. [...] Pioneers in the adaptation of the early tions set by the naval disarmament treaties of Washing- sea-plane carriers, the British had led the world in the ton and London, 1922 and 1930 respectively, only one development of a deck landing ship, an RNAS officer being the first to touch down on a moving vessel. [...] In the immediate post-war for the naval service, which instilled in its men the idea years the Air Ministry was too engrossed in general mat- that aviation held the key to the extension of maritime ters of policy in connection with the country’s air com- power.
Pages
169
Published in
Ottawa,Ontario