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Unit 1: Pilot training, May - November 1915

Image shows an Avro 504 in the Shuttleworth Collection, 2001. This lightweight aircraft was developed in 1912-13 and used mainly in WWI to train pilots, but also for light-bombing and reconnaissance. (Attribution: by Andy Fogg from near Cambridge, UK (Avro 504)[CC-BY-2.0(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.) This unit contains extracts from letters that Douglas wrote from different parts of the country to his mother in Fife, telling her about his life as he trained as a naval pilot.

View the timeline for an outline of John Douglas Hume's life.

Source 1
Pilot training in
Windermere, May 1915 		Source 2
A typical training day
at Hendon, July 1915 		Source 3
Almost crashed
August 1915 		Source 4
First crash,
November 1915
Detail from letter from John Douglas Hume to his mother. National Records of Scotland reference: GD486/34 Detail from letter from John Douglas Hume to his mother. National Records of Scotland reference: GD486/54 Detail from letter from John Douglas Hume to his mother. National Records of Scotland reference: GD486/62 Detail from letter from John Douglas Hume to his mother. National Records of Scotland reference: GD486/85

 

 

  
 
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