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Monday 27 May 1918 – Last Day of Training

So this was it. The last day of training in a (relatively) safe environment, with no-one wishing you harm, and no one shooting at you from the ground or the air.

The last day at Hursley Park/Worthy Down was evidently something of a recap, with a shoot (complete with ground strips) and zone calls being rehearsed.  Not a bad thing, either.

Log book entry
Last log book entry during training
Date: 27.5.18 
Hour: – 
Machine type and No.: RE 6650 
Passenger: – 
Time: 1 hr 15 m 
Height: 3000 
Course: Shoot. Gr. Str. & Zonecalls 
Remarks: Successful

More on shoots:

Saturday 4 May 1918 – Shoot, but No Photos

More on ground strips:

Friday 5 April 1918 – Landings and Ground Strips

More on zone calls:

Monday 29 April 1918 – Zone Calls

Farewell to Hursley Park and Worthy Down.  From now on, it was for real.

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Saturday 25 May 1918 – Another Shoot

In his last three days of flying from Worthy Down while training at Hursley Park, Greg has another shoot:

Log book entry
Log book entry
Date: 25.5.18 
Hour: 4.15 
Machine type and No.: RE 6650 
Passenger: – 
Time: 1 hr 0 m 
Height: 3000 
Course: Shoot 
Remarks: Successful

The timing, although late in the day at 4:15 pm, was early enough to avoid the murky weather moving in from the west by evening:

Weather map for 25 May 191
Met Office weather charts for morning and evening of 25 May 1918. Click for larger image. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0

More on shoots here:

Saturday 4 May 1918 – Shoot, but No Photos

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