Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother by Roald Dahl Donald Sturrock (Editor)

Author:Roald Dahl, Donald Sturrock (Editor)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New, Biography & Autobiography, Letters
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-08-19T12:00:26+00:00

Roald, shortly after he began his RAF flying training in Nairobi, 1939. Of the sixteen people with whom he did his initial training, only three survived the war.

Ultimately I passed with flying colours and was classed as 100% fit to fly. The result is that I must report at the aerodrome (R.A.F. headquarters) at Nairobi on the 24th November—10 days’ time, when together with a few other blokes I will be made an aircraftman on the princely salary of Shs 5/- per day, and be put through an 8 weeks flying course. After that, if one has shown an ability to fly, we are sent to some God-forsaken place in Egypt called ––—, where still more flying experience is gained, and finally in about 4 to 6 months from now to join the R.A.F. Middle East Command in Cairo. Now I don’t know what you think about all that, but personally I think it all sounds fairly exciting and interesting and a bloody sight better than joining the army out here and marching about in the heat from one place to another and doing nothing special. Further more one learns to fly free, which is a very great commercial asset in these days. It would certainly cost one about £1000 to obtain a ‘B’ licence. So much for what I’m going to do, but I’ll let you know more about it later; but I’m certainly looking forward to 8 weeks in Nairobi . . .

Lots of love to all

Roald

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