MPN11,
Thanks for the link ! Marvellous what you can do when you have to, isn't it ? Once in the Calcutta "Grand", about '43, I got chatting to a young American CNAC co-pilot. Told me he'd been an Aviation Cadet, got washed out of Primary Flight School with 20 hours on a Stearman. With this, and about 30-odd on a Piper "Cub", and no licences of any kind, they'd taken him on as a co-pilot on their DC-3 Calcutta run "over the Hump" to Kunming (? think Chunking a bit too far for a loaded Dak)
AND he was being paid Rs700 per month - about three times as much as I (as a Sgt-Pilot) was getting,
who'd passed the Course he'd failed. Didn't seem right, somehow.
Danny.