Makarantar Horar da Jiragen Sama ta Lamba ta 2 RAF

Makarantar Horar da Jiragen Sama ta Lamba ta 2 RAF
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Iri	military unit (en)
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Ƙirƙira	1920

Makarantar Horar da Jiragen Sama ta Lamba ta 2 Makarantar Horar da Jiragen Sama ce (FTS) ta Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Royal Air Force (RAF). Tana cikin Rukunin Lamba ta 22 (Horarwa) wanda ke ba da horon tashi da jirage masu saukar ungulu ga Sojojin Sama na Royal Air Force. Hedikwatar ta tana a RAF Syerston da ke Nottinghamshire kuma yin tafiya da jirage yana faruwa daga wurare da dama a ko'ina cikin Burtaniya ta amfani da Grob Viking T1. Makarantar Hawan Jiragen Sama ta Tsakiya ta RAF ita ma tana ƙarƙashin jagorancinta.

A tsawon tarihinta, Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Lamba ta 2 tana da ayyuka daban-daban, ciki har da kasancewa makarantar tashi ta farko ta sojoji da ta yi amfani da jiragen sama masu amfani da jet a lokacin horon matukan jirgi.

Kafa ta farko (1920)

An kafa Makarantar Horar da Jiragen Sama ta Lamba ta 2 (FTS) a RAF Duxford da ke Cambridgeshire[2] a matsayin wani ɓangare na Rukunin Lamba ta 3 a ranar 26 ga Afrilu 1920, daga Rundunar Horarwa ta Lamba ta 31. Makarantar tana da jirgin sama na musamman da aka haɗa da ita don gudanar da bincike ga Farfesa na Ayyukan Jiragen Sama a Jami'ar Cambridge. A ƙarshen watan Agusta na shekarar 1921, an mayar da makarantar zuwa Rukunin Lamba 1, amma an mayar da ita Rukunin Lamba 3 a ranar 1 ga Yuli 1923. Da farko an sanya mata Avro 504K da Ns don horo na asali, ta yi amfani da Airco DH.9As, Bristol F.2B da Sopwith Snipes don horar da hidima. Daga ƙarshe an maye gurbin 504s da Avro Tutor, yayin da Armstrong Whitworth Siskins da Gloster Grebes suka maye gurbin Snipes. Makarantar ta koma RAF Digby a Lincolnshire a ranar 30 ga Yuni 1924, amma ta daina aiki a ranar 29 ga Yuli 1933 kuma ta wargaje a ranar 15 ga Disamba na wannan shekarar.

Kafa ta biyu (1934)

An gyara makarantar a ranar 1 ga Oktoba 1934 a matsayin wani ɓangare na Rukunin Lamba 23 a gidanta na baya na RAF Digby, wanda yanzu yana da Tutors don horo na asali da Hawker Harts & Furies don matakin horo na hidima. A shekarar 1936, an ƙara Hawker Audaxes, kuma a watan Satumba na 1937 makarantar ta koma RAF Brize Norton da ke Oxfordshire, don ƙaura daga yankin da ake tsammanin za a yi aiki idan yaƙi ya ɓarke. Zuwa watan Agusta na 1939, ana gudanar da horon tashi da jirgin sama na asali a makarantun firamare da na reserve na farar hula, kuma FTSs sun mayar da hankali kan matakin horo na tashi da jirgin sama. Don haka, an sanya masa kayan aiki na Harvards da Airspeed Oxfords.