Word: airs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plans for enlarging the Air Service to 87 squadrons, aggregating 6,000 planes, makes very probable the rumor that the government is to establish schools in Aeronautics at several of the colleges...
...Atlantic City this May and throughout the summer. The contests are under the auspices of the Aero Club of America and the Aerial League of America. Their purpose is "to enable the hundreds of thousands of college men who have been in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Air Service to continue their training in aeronautics, both as a measure of national preparedness and as a means of facilitating their remaining in the aeronautic movement...
Ingalls prepared at St. Paul's School, where he played for two years on the team. He captained his victorious fresh man seven, and after serving abroad with the air forces, he returned to lead the Blue team this winter...
...enlist in the American Ambulance, becoming chief of Section 18, April 17, 1917. In May of the same year he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre for extraordinary heroism near Mort Homme at Verdun. In July of 1917 he left the Ambulance and enlisted in the American air service. That fall he was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant...
Walton Kimball Smith, Law '15, a flight cadet in the Royal Air Force, was killed July--6, 1918, in an aeroplane accident at New Romney, England. After having failed to enter the United States Air Service because of Slight physical defects, he went to France to join the Field Service. On his arrival, however, finding, that he could join the British aviation service, he enlisted in that organization in December, 1918. He trained at No. 1 Observer's School of Aerial Gunnery. He would have received his commission the week following his death...