Word: airships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accepted the invitation of the Akron, Ohio, Flying Club to take part in the balloon-contest on May 10. It was thought that the University would not be represented in the meet because of difficulty in securing a balloon, but the Akron organization has offered to provide an airship for the race. In the contest, fliers from ten colleges of this country will be entered. G. Crompton '20 will pilot the University airship, and will be accompanied by several other members of the Aeronautical Society. The balloons will start from Akron, Ohio, and the crew which reaches the point farthest...
...guns, of the grenades, and bombs used for aerial warfare, and of all the weapons of offence and defence. There are too, the aeroplanes which have seen service among the clouds at the front, and many relics, some of them gruesome, all characteristic of the terrible struggle. The airship in which Norman Prince '08 plunged to his death has been sent by special dispensation of the French government...
...Harvard Aeronautical Society has arranged to have an exhibition and headquarters at the forthcoming National Aero Exhibit to be held in Mechanics Hall from the 16 to the 23 of this month. In the exhibition there will be the glider, which is being assembled rapidly; the Wright and Bleriot airship models which the Society owns; and a large number of drawings of the aeroplane "Harvard...