Word: aero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Aeronautical Society has recently elected C. Knotts 3L. vice-president and P. C. Borre Sp., corresponding secretary, to fill vacancies due to resignations. The former is one of three American aces who are now in the University, while Borre is a former officer of the Aero Club of Massachusetts...
During the war, Mr. Sperry held the chairmanship of three different committees under the Naval Consulting Board. He is a member of a number of important mechanical and electrical societies and one of the founders of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American Electro-Chemical Society. The Aero Club of France awarded him first prize in 1914, and in 1915 he took the Grand Prize at the San Francisco International Exposition for gyro-compass and gyroscopes. One of the most interesting of Mr. Sperry's awards is his decoration for navigational equipment by the late ex-Czar Nicholas...
Early this week the new Curtis OXX-6 engine for the seaplane owned by the Aero Club will be installed. For about two weeks the plane has not been in commission, as a connecting rod broke while flying over Lynn harbor and carried away part of the crankcase. The new engine arrives in time to allow the club to complete the training for a pilot's license, of the fortunate one of its members who was selected this spring...
Trophies to the contestants have been offered by the American Flying Club, the Aero Club of Massachusetts, and the Cleveland Aviation Club. They will be presented at a banquet of the Intercollegiate Association to be held in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel tomorrow night, when Orville Wright, dean of American aviation, will be the guest of honor. Plans of the association for next year, and its officers, will be announced at this meeting. Among the guests present will be Colonel G. C. Brant, Director of the Army Service in the New York district, and Colonel Moose, commanding officer at Mitchell Field...
Godfrey L. Cabot '82, President of the New England Aero Club yesterday presented the University Aeronautical Society with the price of the Aeromarine seaplane which they have just acquired from the Navy, The Aeronautical Society had already raised sufficient funds from its members to pay for the plane; the gift of Mr. Cabot will enable them to use this money for upkeep expenses. The plane is now at Gloucester, N. J., and will be shipped to arrive here the latter part of next week, when it will be set up at Marblehead by members of the Aeronautical Society...