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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...
Lieutenant Putnam also held the French War Cross before the award of this last decoration. He had a total of twenty enemy planes and an observation balloon to his credit when he was brought down on the Lorraine front by four German planes. He was the leader of the University's "Aces...
...regard themselve as fitted for flying or for the balloon service, may apply to Captain Bentley, President, Aviation Examining Board, at 755 Boylston street, Boston...
...This morning it was rainy and we had only a lecture. The lectures are very good, explaining the different sights used on guns to allow automatically for target deflection and shooter's deflection. They have very ingenious ways of doing it. Yesterday afternoon we shot at the little captive balloons. It is very good fun indeed. You dive at the balloon and when the sights are in line shoot. One of the fellows didn't redress in time and ran into one of the balloons. It burst and spread out on his wires, making a great sail, which started...