Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...opportunity is offered for men between the ages of 19 and 35 years to receive commissions in the Army in the balloon corps. The number of men at present enrolled in this branch of the service is very small and so the chance now for men is unusually favorable. The candidates must have had at least a Hight School education...
...applicants accepted will be sent abroad immediately to be trained, and will be on duty as soon as they have completed their course of study satisfactorily. The work in training will be in dirigible flying as well as in aeroplane, in captive balloon flying, map drawing, etc. While in this work the men accepted will have the rank of second-class seamen, and should they pass their examination at the end of a period of about three months, they will receive commissions as ensigns...
Five members of the University left yesterday morning for somewhere in the West to commence training for dirigible balloon flying. Their destination is not revealed by the government authorities, but it is known that they will be the first in the country to study balloon aviation as provided by the program of the War Department...
...summer during the encampment period at Tobyhanna. The Aircraft Company is building a peculiar type of observation kites which are used by the thousands in the European war today. These kites are about 80 feet long and have a sack or tail which fills with air and keeps the balloon steady. They rise to a height of 2,000 or 3,000 feet and are connected by a cable to an automobile. The cable has a telephone wire inside so that the operators in the balloon can telephone where they observe the shot to strike. The heads of the foreign...