In popular imagination it is the members of the aircrews- particularly the pilots- who are the heroes of aerial warfare. Yet everyone familiar with the reality of the situation- especially pilots and their fellow crew members- realizes his dependence upon the glamorless airplane mechanic, the lowly 'grease monkey.' As early as World War I Air Service officials were declaring that 'without efficient mechanics the pilots' wings would soon be clipped and there would be few, if any, ships available with which they could take the air.' And two decades later Col. Rush B. Lincoln, chief of the Plans Section of the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps, declared that 'all failures in the air can be directly or indirectly traced to failures on the ground.'.
Individual Training in Aircraft Maintenance in the AAF
1944
196 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aeronautics , Education, Law, & Humanities , Military Sciences , Military training , Mechanics , Aircraft maintenance , Lessons learned , Specialists , Military personnel , Military history , Military forces(United states) , Military aircraft , Aircraft machinists , Aircraft sheet metal workers , Aircraft welders , Airline training , Airplane mechanics , Army air forces , Courses , Engine depot overhaul mechanics , Engineering cadets , Engineering officers , Factory training , Glider mechanics , Hydraulics specialists , Individual training , Mechanics training , Mobile training units , Power plant specialists , Propeller specialists
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