Word: airs
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There is no need of emphasizing the importance of a knowledge of meteorology on the part of those whose business it is to sail through the ocean of air. This ocean has its tides; its currents; its waves. It is beginning to be charted, but only just beginning. The late Professor A. Lawrence Rotch, founder and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, which he left to Harvard, with an endowment, in his will, was a pioneer in charting the atmosphere. Shortly before his death, Professor Rotch published his "Charts of the Atmosphere for Aeronauts and Aviators." This volume presents...
...Rees is one of the most successful men who has ever sailed the air in victory," said President Lowell in introducing Lieutenant-Colonel L. W. B. Rees of the British Royal Flying Corps in the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon...
Colonel Rees commenced his talk by describing the condition of the air service in England at the beginning of the war and showed how the system of generalization was supplanted by one of specialization in bombing, scouting and photographing. Then he contrasted the different types of machines and the change in the methods of fighting and observing. Two years ago the "Huns" fought in squadrons while the English never fought in more than pairs. Now the English fight in squads of ten or twelve machines, and the Germans in squads of twenty. But even in spite of the numbers, England...
...British Flying Corps will give an address to the members of the University in the New Lecture Hall at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. The subject of the talk, which will be given in connection with the visit today of Secretary of War Baker, will be "Fighting in the Air." Colonel Rees has seen active service in the war and has been awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest honor in the British Army, for his daring exploits...
Colonel Rees has been in active service during the greater part of the war, and his exploits in the air have won for him the Victoria Cross, the highest honor obtainable in the British Army. He will discuss fully the tactics used in aerial warfare...