Then I went to flying school in Mumbai and London to learn how to fly it.

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Smith-Barry earned his wings on the first course held at the Central Flying School (CFS), in Upavon, Wiltshire, in 1912.

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At that time the operator ran the facility as a flying school until Mr Jones took over the operation in April 2002.

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At Stornoway, there was a 2.4% fall, mainly due to the completion of the school building programme, a project which used external construction workers flying between Stornoway and the mainland.

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Hsu Sheng-yueh, a high-school graduate, took the CPU exam in July, passed with flying colors but was denied entry because his father had a criminal record.

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The symbol of the test-pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert, where Mr Armstrong spent years testing military jets, flying the X-15 at 4, 000mph to the very edge of the atmosphere, is a slide rule over a stylised aircraft.

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