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under consideration to employ non-commissioned officers as pilots; but at present non-commissioned officers and airmen are employed solely on technical work.  The only flying personnel who are not officers are aerial gunners and a certain number of wireless operators.

12.  The non-commissioned officers and airmen are employed both with squadrons and at the Aircraft Depot and Park.  The personnel of the Indian technical section are employed entirely at the Depot and Park on technical trades, and consist of carpenters, fitters, fabric workers, instrument repairers, machinists, etc.

13.  The total establishment consists of 218 officers, 1757 British non-commissioned officers and airmen and 138 Indians.

14.  In India, as in the United Kingdom, the air force has a medical service of its own.  Flying must still be regarded as an abnormal pursuit for the human being.  It is carried out under conditions which differ widely from those on the ground.  With the growth of aeronautics, therefore, it was found necessary to create a separate department of medical science whose functions, broadly stated, are to study the effects of flying upon the human constitution, both mental and physical, to study also the effects of

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