Rise of flight buy or not?

[Al Schlageter]

You all know who Roy Brown, right. He traveled to Dayton OH (Wright Brothers' school) with 3 others (all became aces) from Carleton Place Ont to take lessons. They had to pay for their own flying lessons at $1 per hour. It cost him $249 (ground and air) to get his private pilot license (pilot's certificate Number 361) in Dayton OH.

The RFC/RNAS was only accepting trained pilots at the time.

To put the cost in perspective, beef, depending on the cut, was $.05 to $.10 a pound at the time.