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Excerpt from THE AIR MAN AND HIS CONQUESTS IN PEACE AND WAR. (Francis A. Collins, 1917)
Any one who has common-sense and patience may learn to fly. In the aviation schools, a good working knowledge of airmanship is ordinarily gained in a total of four hundred minutes spent in the air, divided into a score of lessons. The air would almost seem the natural element of man, such has been the progress in flying during the past few years….under competent instructors
serious accidents today are almost unknown.