No. 1 Flying Training School (No. 1 FTS) was one of the original units
of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), dating back to the service's
formation in 1921 at Point Cook, Victoria. It was re-formed several
times in the ensuing years, initially as No. 1 Service Flying Training
School in 1940, under the wartime Empire Air Training Scheme. After
graduating nearly 3,000 pilots, it was disbanded in late 1944, when
there was no further need to train Australian aircrews for service in
Europe. The school was re-established in 1946 at Uranquinty, New South
Wales, and transferred to Point Cook the following year. To cope with
the demands of the Korean War and Malayan Emergency, it was re-formed as
No. 1 Applied Flying Training School in 1952 and moved to Pearce,
Western Australia, in 1958. Another school was meanwhile formed at
Uranquinty, No. 1 Basic Flying Training School (No. 1 BFTS), which
transferred to Point Cook in 1958. In 1969, No. 1 AFTS was re-formed as
No. 2 Flying Training School and No. 1 BFTS was re-formed as No. 1 FTS.
Rationalisation of RAAF flying training resulted in the disbandment of
No. 1 FTS in 1993.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._1_Flying_Training_School_RAAF>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1797:
French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle off the coast of
Brittany between two British frigates and a French ship of the line
ended with over 900 deaths when the latter ran aground.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_13_January_1797>
1822:
The design of the current flag of Greece was adopted by the
First National Assembly at Epidaurus for their naval flag.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Greece>
1953:
An article published in Pravda accused some of the most
prestigious physicians in the Soviet Union, mostly Jews, of taking part
in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and
military leadership.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot>
1986:
The month-long South Yemen Civil War began in Aden between
supporters of President Ali Nasir Muhammad and his predecessor Abdul
Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Yemen_Civil_War>
2001:
The first of two large earthquakes struck El Salvador, killing
at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2001_El_Salvador_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
peel:
1. (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
2. (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
3. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or
strips; to shed skin in such a way.
4. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
5. (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away). […]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peel>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the
same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He
seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
--G. I. Gurdjieff
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/G._I._Gurdjieff>