Onward to Bengal Flying Club
New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- On arrival, we found our way from Howrah station to the Flying club. We were shocked to see that we were to live in tents. We had our daily meals at the club. There were 2 or 3 other tents and the batch which had come before us also lived there. There were 3 or 4 instructors at the Bengal Flying Club - all Indians. Mr. Chitamber was the Chief Flying Instructor. Mr. Montes and Mr. Gosh were the other two. Then sometime later Mr. Rhodes, a tea planter History 80 instructor also joined. They were all jolly persons and used to get together often with their wives in the evenings at the Flying Club bar. I particularly remember one person, Mr. Dhargalkar who used to be Maharaja of Dharbhanga's personal pilot and often came to...
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