Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little more than a month has passed since three naval officers left the air station at Rockaway in a balloon. But in that month their flight, ostensibly made on experimental purposes, has aroused throughout the country a degree of interest in naval aeronautics that is surpassed only by the transatlantic trip of the four "NC" biplanes. Besides the desire to know the reasons for a flight which so nearly ended in disaster, there is also a justifiable curiosity concerning the reports of the journey--reports that contradict each other at almost every turn. The days of melodrama for melodrama...
...pilots, observers and balloon men, as well as others interested in aeronauties, have been requested by the society to sign up in the blue books which have been posted on the various bulletin boards so that the society can obtain an idea as to how many men in the University are interested in aviation...
Students Direct Fire From Balloon...
Each battery had three mornings a week on the range, the basic course students manning the guns, while the advances course students directed the fire, either from a balloon, from the battery commander's station, or from a interal observation post, "E" battery made remarkable progress in this department, and at the time of a visit from the chief of Field Artillery, it was chosen to fire several problems for his benefit. He complimented the gun squads in particular for their remarkably fine work...
...Mass., Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Chicago, Pennsylvania, M. I. T., Vassar, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Barnard, Radcliffe, The War Department, The Navy Department, The State Department, Department of Justice, U. S. Army War College, U. S. Navy War College, U. S. Military Academy, Coast Artillery School, U. S. Army Balloon School, War Department, France, Bibliotheque Royale, Belbium, Biblioteca Municipal, Brazil, Biblioteca Nacional, Cuba...