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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

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Began flying for RCAF in 1943. Taught in first experimental Ab Initio course designed to determine if flight training time could be shortened without loss of quality. Twelve students, who had just been recruited, were brought in to learn to fly on the most advanced training aircraft used, prior to qualifying for wings. The experiment was deemed successful after training a full course of 50 students in that manner and was carefully reviewed by U.S. forces and the RAF, eventually quickening training time for RCAF pilots.
Flew deHaviland Mosquito aircraft for the 133 Squadron seeking Japanese balloons carrying high explosives and incendiaries, incoming to the continental U.S. on the prevailing westerly winds over the Pacific.
CAP and U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary flying occurred in the postwar era.
Ended flying sixty years after it all began.