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Difficulty is anticipated, not in getting the desired number of young men and women to fly when they are provided with an opportunity to do so, but in setting strict yet fair standards and devising other means of holding down enrollment to a manageable figure.

Since the Act of Congress creating the Civil Aeronautics Authority specifically sets forth that one of the primary responsibilities of this new agency is to foster the development of aviation in the interests of national defense, the Authority considers that it is its duty to formulate and carry out a program which will, to a large degree, meet the aeronautical crisis now facing the country.

It has no intention of infringing on the prerogatives of the armed forces of the United States or of interfering with these services' clear cut responsibilities in the field of air defense. It is determined rather to supplement their work and to assist them in every possible respect.

The Authority feels that, by careful coordination of its program with those of the 
Army and Navy, it will be possible in the event of national emergency to expand the regular military flying services from a reservoir of civilian airmen and aircraft surpassing anything of the sort ever before conceived in this country, or, for that matter, in the world.

By limiting flight training to college students of 18 to 25 and requiring them to meet the present physical standards for a commercial pilot's certificate, the Civil Aeronautics Authority program will insure that a high percentage of the men thus trained will be able to meet both the physical and and educational standards of the military flying services. Thus, it will create a valuable source of supply for these services both for peace-time