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Roy Tooman Is Now Qualified to Teach FlyingRoy “Sonny” Tooman, veterant M • : ’ • * sfuiiycompleted tests at Des Moines Tuesday and received a new rating, entiTing him to teach flying in the government’s college training program. It is expected that he will be assigned to a flying• ; K :within the next few days.As a result of his completion of the tests, Tooman, who already held a commercial pilot’s license, was granted a re-rating issued by ^ the Civil Aeronautics authority• for the new national flight training program.The test completed by the local flier included both oral and written work as well as actual flyingtests. Part of the examination§ was over a 207-page bulletin issued by the Civil Aeronautics authority and compiled from a study of problems encountered by armyand navy aviarain iof tonhilenrJifticestructiof solo practice and two weeks ofscnooiing in tne manual.Tooman has had a long periodof experience in the aviation field,having taken up flying as a hobby % here in 1930.The flying test consisted of jthree hours of continuous flight j • with a civil aeronautics inspectorconducting the test.Tooman spent two weeks in Des !Moines during which time the department of commerce conducted jThis training con-^ sistcd of ten hours of dual in-
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Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Wed, Jul 03, 1940
Page 3
Full Page
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Anne C.
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