ELEMENTARY, TRAINER

training aircraft -

The turbojet-powered Tutor ts RCAF’s new elementary jet trainer - and aleo_ the — first single-engine

side seating.

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SS co Plan to attend and ‘support the

ed RCAF. student pilots into the | evaluating most of. year 1966 pointing forward on | aircraft av ailable in the western |

a route toward all jet train- Debbie pring. g

to. have aite-ty:

Ne w bantam jet aircrai |

“ARGUS “GIANTS. WITH 100 EYES” ground handling a 70-knot. stal- tions mandate-w was “established |

‘replaces famous Harvard

tt aeroplane has whisk- ; A Senta 7 the training

‘CLEAN LINED

The bantam is the Tutor, a Externally, the Tutor fe a inew jet trainer which RCAF | b elean-lined aeroplane % feet Training Command’ accepted in long; spaning 36 feet, 9 9 feet tall,

ceremonies at Winnipeg on June and weighing 7,393 pounds. It 18, 1964. | has .a side-by-side seating ar- The Command started im } rangement, tricycle ‘ undercar-

tiage, T-tail assembly, and a power plant able to generate a maximum speed of mph.

structor training on the | at the RCAF. Station “Moose Jaw, Sask., where a pilot train-

Ying syHabus will be proved i The RCAF has ord 190. the Tutor and then put into | Tutorst and these are being tice with qualified pilots the manufactured) at Canadair’s

Number One Flying Instructor | Cartierville plant ‘north of Mon- School, also at Moose Jaw. ' treal.

Graduates from the first in-. Entry of the Tutor into _ the structor course will, in turn. RCAF will allow Training Com- start converting other pilot in mand to school new “pilots on structors to the Tutor from the | jets from their first flight. A

Havard aircraft. The Havard, a star inthe British Common. | wealth Ait Training Plan of the | Second * World War. and the | NATO Training Program, has served as a basic and advanced |

complete instructional concern with one aircraft type that the service expects to result in a | more effective and uniform pro- ' gram designed to — present and future needs.

trainer to more pilots than any At present, the yuadentiy of aircraft in any era. It was re- RCAF, Pilots are trained for tired. during the latter part of initial duty with the Canadian , | Air Division.in Europe and the With the intoduction of the | | Air Defence Command, in Can-' Squadrons in “both “these RCAF has cut about nine weeks | \forces are equipped with high- | off its--pilot training- program | | speed and high attitude aircraft which lasted 60:weeks, inclusive, | and the RCAF has long .consid-. ered it necessary that future pilots be exposed to high-speed Now. asitie’ from 12 weeks of | and high-altitude flight at the

the progression of | The Tutor will not ‘only fam- training for pilots is 51 weeks |fliarize.the new -pilot with all | the aspects of jet flight at. the

academic | earliest stage in their training. |

start of his training but will, as the air force plans, it enable him to have a greatef amount ‘ot. jet flying experience before. |

he goes to operational aircraft.

A basic and time saving point |

Canadian Armed Forces. ~ } 1964 and early 1965. : 4 Tutor .as a basic trainer ‘the | | ada. |" ||| Summerside Air, Base J of a leave period of two weeks | “ > fat midterth, |- initial military and ‘The Co-Op Supermarket ot : divided between basic’ ‘flying : y training‘on the Tutor and ad-° Water St. Summerside | yanced diying, With this in be : Hore : 5 ing, the RCAF has realized a 3 ; ’ plan begun several years ago to 7 c convert to Basic jet training. A Sa in

clted in the Tutor’s favour as a

Se _- | sideby-side seating for student : | and. instructor in a comfortable

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coekpit about the same size as the front seat of a compact auto- mobile. In ‘this arrangement

voice contact with his teach- —er, allowing mutual observation “| and monitoring. This does away with many problems of the tan- dem seating arrangement for flying instruction which has been compared: to” “trying to teach

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General Contractor

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Summerside

training craft arises from the }

student is in complete: visual |

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| MORE ADVANCED.

;plan that involved testing and | mathematics by having student

In some respects the Tutor might seem more an advanced | than a basic trainer, considering its ability to reach an altitude of 15,00 feet in 4.6 minutes, 30,- 000 feet in 13 minutes, and oper- ate at a service ceiling to 43. | 000 feet. However,-the aircraft Watch, of Canadian Forcé’-Base | has numerous characteristics Gagetown ‘N.B., and ‘‘B’’ Squad- which give its basic trainer ex- ee It has good low and CFB Petawawa, Ont., from the high speed handling qualihes, fifth contirgent Canada has sent

full manoeuverability, _ease of to Cyrrus since the United Na-

ee he ee ear ee | 16 The Gunrian-The Bening Patrlot

ng. speed with flaps down, ajon the troubled . Mediterranean |

comp tick:shaker stall warning,- and jisland in March, 1964.

minimum visibility obstruction. A demonstration training mis sion of one and a half hours on the Tutor has included a take-off and-clumb to 15 15 minutes of man ering, a "| greckics forced landing, a re

TANK KILLER

The Canadian Army was

the rocket

killer, \Gustav

| tata hteiidvenn circuits prior landing. All this with fuel re- |

© |ether: NATO amiss

feet, equipped early in 1966 with. the | infantry batallion’s new tank | 84-millimeter Carl | launcher. The [Swedish weopon is also used by

Diefenbaker Has Criticism

| Of Federal Spending, Sore2

OTTAWA (CP)~The ‘federal government. has gong; qn a spending spree at a time when Canadians‘are paying~ 'the> high- est taxes’: ever, Opposition Leader Diefenbaker told the Commons.

The-Commons was s studying @ budget resolution to change in come tax gulations.

He said the defénce headquar: |

ters slated for downfown Ottawa. is being built ‘for the glorifica- tion of the minister of defence.”

Another example of the gov- ernment’s attitude was’ State Secretary Judy flying to see whether Canadian$

are “artistically attracted

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serves providing for an addition- -al operation of 20 minutes at NATO FORCE maximum endurance power. Canadian. Army . and RCAF |

forces under NATO

FIFTH CONTINGENT total nearly 13,000 all ranks.

in Europe

Summerside

DAY JUNE 11th.

HAROLD P. FOY

Your Canadian Oil Dealer

having a $6,000,000 pictu> the national gallery.”

“The fabulous increases 1n ey penditures ,by this. governyiont after its ‘promisas of econ: mv are’ becoming more and more apparent by the degree to which

me?

this government” has gone on 4.

spending spree.’

There could be no excuse tor putting up the 38-storey defence building, which could wind up costing“ taxpayers as much as $150,000.000.

“Across this nition. we- have

LaMarsh’s kite people who find it difficult to

carry on in the face of the in-

to creasing cost of living.”

Good Luck to All Servicemen on

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We salute the members af the Canadian Forces on . feces.

_ ARMED FORCES DAY

Make it a date to ate Ik the celebrations at RCAF Station in Summerside this Saturday!

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