air gunnery

Elliott later served as an instructor at an air gunnery school.

After his first tour of duty, he became an air gunnery instructor.

Another area of training was for air gunnery handled by the pilot or a specialist air gunner.

The school offered six week courses in bombing, navigation and air gunnery until it was disbanded in November 1944.

Owing to its close proximity to Lake Manitoba, the station was used as an air gunnery and air bombing school.

It was also an air gunnery and bombing range, with targets on the land, floated 1 mile offshore and towed drogues in the air.

Strange then established No. 1 School of Air Gunnery at Hythe in Kent.

In September 1918, Elliott was transferred to No. 1 School of Air Gunnery, where he served as an instructor.

During World War II it was used as an air gunnery school, flying Avro Ansons.

No. 1 Advanced School of Air Gunnery operated from Lympne during January and February 1917.

He returned to Australia in April 1944, and was posted as a tutor at the air gunnery school in Cressy, Victoria.

The airfield initially housed No 4 Air Gunnery School (4 AGS).

The sea off Lilstock has been used as an air gunnery practice range connected to RNAS Yeovilton.

He became the top student in his air gunnery course, and left for England on the troopship SS Strathallan in March 1942.

Ted went to Jacksonville for a course in air gunnery, the combat pilot's payoff test, and broke all the records in reflexes, coordination, and visual-reaction time.

As the winch-equipped Fairey Battle TT (target tug) it was used as a target-towing aircraft for training in air gunnery.

In autumn 1943, Hercules-engined Wellingtons came increasingly into use and the OTU's air gunnery training section was located at Oakley.

In World War 2, Royal Air Force Morpeth opened at nearby Tranwell and was a notable air gunnery training school.

As a qualified pilot, he attended the air gunnery school before being posted to 759 Naval Air Squadron at Eastleigh, Hampshire, in February 1940.

In the early stages of their existence, flexible gunnery schools used as guide books Training Manual 1-271 and a Navy Department booklet, 'Air Gunnery.'

During the spring of 1943, a new role was found for the excellent facilities at Andreas, and preparations began to set up No. 11 Air Gunnery School of Training Command.

In addition to the main base, the adjoining Yucca Air to Air Gunnery Range was located to the southwest of Yucca AAF.

GOV.UK Publications, Ministry of Defence: Holbeach Air Gunnery and Bombing Range Bylaws 1939.

Static exhibits are housed in the original 42-Air School Air Gunnery Training Centre used during the Joint Air Training Scheme in World War II.

The range opened in 1926 as an air gunnery range attached to and established by R.A.F. Practice Camp Sutton Bridge (later named RAF Sutton Bridge).