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TRAINING SYSTEM AT U.S.A. AVIATION
[[underline]] CENTER NO.3.  April 11, 1918. [[/underline]] 

^[[And to front ([[underline]] June 28) line flight [[/underline]] ]]

Arriving as I did several days in retard of the squadron I did not do a day on the "rouleurs" or "grasshoppers", as the first step of the training in this Aviation camp is known to be. The "grasscutters" ^[[(still another nom-de-guerre)]] are machines that were designed for the Front, but which were assigned to the limbo of all machines that quickly become passé, whose wings [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[are]] clipped but whose engine [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[is semi-powerful.]] The system is the French one and at the Field #1 the pupil gets a touch of the taxiing ability of the light little planes. The sensation of speed in these is [[strikethrough]] said [[/strikethrough]] ^[[felt]] to be greater than the aviator attains in any other way, for on the ground 90 miles an hour looks every bit of 90 miles per hour, while in the air the 90 miles is no more than a slow ride in an automobile in which the wind against one's face is the gauge of speed.

[[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] Field #2 is the  [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[23 meter Double Control]] and in the Doubles an instructor takes us up to give us the "feel" on take-off, banking, and