FACULTY OF THE DUNWOODY AVIATION DEPARTMENT. LEFT TO RIGHT: Ensign Harris Flannigan; Ensign W. W. Eastman, Flight Officer of the Dunwoody Detachment; H. B. Kenny, R.A.F.; The Official Publication of The William Hood Dunwoody Industrial Institute Vol. IV OCTOBER, 1918 No. 1 Naval Flight Officers' School Dunwoody Institute is now an official naval aviation ground school for student flight officers. Friends of the school will be interested to know that, as there are only two other schools of this kind this is a considerable distinction for the Institute. The decision to make Dunwoody an accredited aviation ground school came about August 1, and was largely due to the good showing made by the first class turned out by the school shortly before that date, and the efforts of Commander Terhune, Director H. W. Kavel, and officials of the Minneapolis Aero Club. Dunwoody's entry into the field of aviation instruction was made last fall shortly after the navy training courses were started. Through co-operation with the Aero club, permission was obtained to recruit a provisional class of 25 men to take a pilots' course at the school. Director H. W. Kavel gathered together a staff of instructors and formulated a course of instruction. This first class went through the course of instruction and was sent to a seaboard school in the East for final instruction and examination early in the spring. The fine showing made by this first class has stood the school well in obtaining its distinction. No sooner had the first class left the school than a second class was organized and put through the course. The good work was continued until midsummer, when official recognition of the school was given by the Navy Department. Under the new plan, students leaving Dunwoody will go directly to naval aviation bases. Commandant Terhune and Director H. W. Kavel may well feel proud of the distinction attained by the Dunwoody Naval Training Schools. The present plan is intended to turn out 25 pilots every two weeks. The course is of ten weeks' duration and there are at all times 125 men in attendance. As fast as the classes complete their work new ones are added to keep the quota full at all times. The students are divided into units of 25 each. Each installment, when it arrives at the school, is given a number; the first one under the new arrangement being number three. These numbers are retained during the progress of the classes through the school. For instructional purposes the classes are designated A, B, C, D, and R. Upon arriving at the station a class is designated as R. This Division R goes through two weeks' preliminary instruction on the "Receiving Ship" before it enters upon the work in the school proper. While on the "Receiving Ship" the class is under the tutelage of naval officers and receives instruction in "Fundamentals of Naval Service." We might parenthetically say that the "Receiving Ship" at Dunwoody is not |