Prince Harry is heading for a crash landing over his ambition to fly a helicopter gunship. Results for his first week of aptitude training with the Army Air Corps have got instructors worried.

Harry began a month- long series of trials to become a combat chopper pilot 13 days ago. He has so far won a medium grading for his flying skills at the controls of a Slingsby Firefly trainer plane.

But he’s struggled to grasp the classroom theory that he’ll have to master to earn a place on the next stage.

One source at the base said: “He’s a good flier. Very confident, very calm. Great natural manual skills and co-ordination and a good sense of what’s around him in the air. But the theory is a real stretch for him.”

Harry, 24, has another fortnight to correct his ways or face failing training at the first cut. More than 50% of applicants fail the first hurdle at the Middle Wallop base in Hants.

He is desperate to make the grade as he feels it is the only way he will see active service again.

Harry struggled with academic life at school and Sandhurst Military Academy. He scraped through with two of the lowest A-level grades Eton has seen and often had to pester aides for help at Sandhurst.

A source added: “Harry isn’t a natural academic.” (via Daily Star)