Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total of over 150 students have applied for the course, which includes 72 hours of "ground school" and 35 to 50 hours of flying instruction in the air, and which fits the student for a private pilot's certificate of competency...
...present broadcasts in German "are aimed at Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries," Professor Cross explains. The program is on the air between 4 and 5 o'clock Monday afternoons, on a wave length of 11,70 kilocycles or 25.4 meters...
...citizens, aged 18 to 25, in good standing at Harvard, in good physical condition, with excellent eyesight, and no previous solo flying experience. The non-credit course, sponsored jointly by Harvard and the Civil Aeronautics Authority, includes 72 hours of ground course, and 35 to 50 hours in the air...
...head of his secondary school class. Athletes, six-foot-one, one hundred eighty, in by the skin of their teeth. Hell-raisers who already know every bar that stays open after hours. High-school boys in dark serge; and prep-school boys wearing tweeds and plaids with the proper air. Social registerites. Dilletantes. Radicals...
Subjects covered in the ground course will include history of aviation; civil air regulations; navigation; meteorology; parachute training; aircraft and theory of flight; engines; instruments; and radio uses and forms. The ground course will be completed in the first half year...