Word: akron
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Aeronautical Society has entered pilots in both the land and the sea-plane contests which commence next Saturday, as well as in the balloon contest which takes place at Akron, Ohio, the middle...
...Aeronautical Society has 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...
President, George Carey Barclay '19, of New York, N. Y.; managing editor, Donald Stuart Guild '19, of West Roxbury; assistant managing editors, Walter Theodore Selg '19, of Brookline, and Buel Whiting Patch '20, of Framingham; circulation manager, George Crouse Houser '20, of Akron, O.; business manager, Philip Zach '19, of Roxbury; assistant business manager, Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr '21, of Nutley, N. J.; associate editors, Harold Harvard Rumford Thompson '20, of Worcester; Reginald Gordon Robert Sloane '19, of Sands Point, L. I., N. Y.; William Cantor '20, of Lowell; William McHenry Keyser '20, of Baltimore, Md.; and Max Stolz...
...weekly meetings of the Aeronautical Society were resumed last evening when the society discussed balloons and their uses in the present war. A. H. Andrews '20, who has had experience with the balloon department of the Goodyear aviation plant at Akron, Ohio, spoke upon the construction and operation of military airships and the uses of the aerostatics or balloon type of aircraft...
...business manager, Horace Huntington Silliman '18, of West Roxbury; associate editors, Edward Vestal French '18, of Cambridge; Robert Hale Garrison '18, of Brookline; James Spear Taylor '18, of Rochester, N. Y.; Walter Theodore Selg '19, of Brookline; Harold Harvard Rumford Thompson '19, of Worcester; George Crouse Houser '20, of Akron, O., and Buel Whiting Patch '20, of Framingham. The advertising manager will be announced later. Each of the associate editors will be in charge of a department...