Ten thousand fledglings of the U.S, Army air corps may make their first “flights” on the ground in a “pilot buggy” developed at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, and already in experimental use at Barksdale Field, Shreveport, La. This pre-flight reflex trainer is a motorized scooter equipped with regulation airplane seat, controls, joystick, rudder pedals, throttle, brake, and .22-caliber gun firing blanks. Its cockpit is suspended so that it responds to the controls, banking, nosing up and down and simulating actual flight conditions while taxiing over the ground. A horn connected with a bank indicator sounds if the student commits an error.