Recommendation for training
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Recommendation for training
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Advice to improve mathematics training prior to call up.
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[underlined] NOTICE. [/underlined]
To Candidates accepted for Enlistment as Aircraft Crew in the R.A.F.V.R.
The Aviation Candidates Selection Board has recommended that you should be trained as .x. pilot, observer or Wireless Operator (A.G.) This recommendation may be altered if during your training your progress is not satisfactory or alternatively to meet the requirements of the service.
2. Some time may elapse before you are called up, and in order that you may absorb the instruction given during your training it is essential that you should have a sound knowledge of Elementary Mathematics; you are, therefore, earnestly enjoined to brush up this subject in your spare time before being called up for service, varying this with the reading of good books.
3. The following syllabus is appended for your information and should be carefully studies until a high standard is obtained. You should not allow this to interfere with keeping yourself in a high standard of physical fitness:-
Elementary Mathematics.
Revision of arithmetical processes; vulgar and decimal fractions; metric system, averages; ratio; square root.
The elementary processes of algebra; use of simple formulae, substitution and transportation; simple equation; laws of indices.
Introduction to graphs; properties of the triangle and parallelogram; the right-angled triangle, similar figures; geometrical sub-division of a straight line; solution of problems by simple scale drawings.
Angular measure; graphical solution of any triangle.
4. If you are satisfied that you have attained a high standard in the preceding items you should study the following which will be of great help in your future training:-
Forces represented by straight lines; combined action of several forces, resultant, parallelogram and triangle of forces; centre of gravity.
Speed, velocity and acceleration, change of units, e.g. m.p.h. to knots; forces causing motion, application to motion under gravity; vectors; triangle of velocities; relative velocity; angular velocity.
[underlined] GRAPHS [/underlined]: co-ordinates; scales; plotting of simple functions; interpretation of graphs; interpolation.
NOTE:- (1) Any of the standard elementary textbooks on these subjects used in schools cover sufficiently the ground indicated.
(2) It is importatnt [sic] that a number of typical examples should be selected from exercises given in the books used and carefully worked out.
x. Deleted as applicable.
C.14971.
To Candidates accepted for Enlistment as Aircraft Crew in the R.A.F.V.R.
The Aviation Candidates Selection Board has recommended that you should be trained as .x. pilot, observer or Wireless Operator (A.G.) This recommendation may be altered if during your training your progress is not satisfactory or alternatively to meet the requirements of the service.
2. Some time may elapse before you are called up, and in order that you may absorb the instruction given during your training it is essential that you should have a sound knowledge of Elementary Mathematics; you are, therefore, earnestly enjoined to brush up this subject in your spare time before being called up for service, varying this with the reading of good books.
3. The following syllabus is appended for your information and should be carefully studies until a high standard is obtained. You should not allow this to interfere with keeping yourself in a high standard of physical fitness:-
Elementary Mathematics.
Revision of arithmetical processes; vulgar and decimal fractions; metric system, averages; ratio; square root.
The elementary processes of algebra; use of simple formulae, substitution and transportation; simple equation; laws of indices.
Introduction to graphs; properties of the triangle and parallelogram; the right-angled triangle, similar figures; geometrical sub-division of a straight line; solution of problems by simple scale drawings.
Angular measure; graphical solution of any triangle.
4. If you are satisfied that you have attained a high standard in the preceding items you should study the following which will be of great help in your future training:-
Forces represented by straight lines; combined action of several forces, resultant, parallelogram and triangle of forces; centre of gravity.
Speed, velocity and acceleration, change of units, e.g. m.p.h. to knots; forces causing motion, application to motion under gravity; vectors; triangle of velocities; relative velocity; angular velocity.
[underlined] GRAPHS [/underlined]: co-ordinates; scales; plotting of simple functions; interpretation of graphs; interpolation.
NOTE:- (1) Any of the standard elementary textbooks on these subjects used in schools cover sufficiently the ground indicated.
(2) It is importatnt [sic] that a number of typical examples should be selected from exercises given in the books used and carefully worked out.
x. Deleted as applicable.
C.14971.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Recommendation for training,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 15, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/42653.