British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Empire Air Training Scheme, officially renamed the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in 1942 and often known simply as "The Scheme" or "The Plan," was a massive, joint military aircrew training program for the air forces of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Southern Rhodesia during the Second World War. EATS/BCATP remains the single largest aviation training program in history and was responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, air gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers of the Commonwealth air forces during the war. Students from many other countries attended schools under the plan, including Argentina, Belgium, Ceylon, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Fiji, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, South Africa and the United States.