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CAL-AERO ACADEMY “SLIPSTREAM”
Second Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment • World War II

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Document Overview

Compiled by the aviation cadets of Class 43-D (with contributions from outgoing Class 43-C) and edited by Elbert L. Dukate, Jr., this issue of the Slipstream is the cadet newspaper of Cal-Aero Academy, the Army Air Corps primary flying school in Ontario, California. It covers flight-by-flight cadet rosters and humor columns, first-solo stories, instructor and battalion-officer profiles, athletics, and local advertisers from the fall of 1942. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime publication.

Campaigns: Primary flight training at Mira Loma, Puente, and Fuller auxiliary fields; ground school and drill at Cal-Aero Academy, Ontario, California.

Commanders: Capt. LeGrande E. Kelly, Jr. (Commandant of Cadets); Capt. H. C. Givan, Jr. (Post Adjutant, former Commandant of Cadets); Maj. R. Atkinson (Group Major); Capt. H. Z. Moore (Group Executive Officer); Capt. William Martin (Group Adjutant).

Table of Contents

Memorandum to All Aviation Cadets
Editorial
Here Is a Toast
Battalion Officers
Instructor’s Check Ride (poem)
In Other Words
Flight Seven – 43-C
Flight Eight – 43-C
Crack-Up Column
Flight Nine – 43-C
Flight Ten – 43-D
Hail, Cartography (poem)
Flight Eleven – 43-C
How to Obtain a V.O.C.O.
Flight Twelve – 43-C
Student Officers
Impressions…
First Flight – Solo
Flight One – 43-D
Flight Two – 43-D
Flight Three – 43-D
Confessions of a Jackpot
Flight Four – 43-D
Slipstream Slips
Flight Five – 43-D
Two Minds – One Love
Flight Six – 43-D
Cal-Aero Sports
Military Styles
Credits
A Mother’s Prayer
Advertisements

“Nothing can stop the Army Air Corps.”
— Capt. LeGrande E. Kelly, Jr., Commandant of Cadets