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...summer school at Falmouth was under the direction of William Bollay, instructor in Engineering, and finished the work needed for a pilot's license in six weeks. The course included 72 lectures and 35 to 40 hours of flight...
...daily schedule provided for four hours of lectures and approximately one hour of flight training. The courses taught were: Theory of Flight by William Bollay, Instruments by Ben Hartog, Professor of Engineering, Meteorology by Dr. Lang of the Blue Hill Observatory, navigation by Fletcher Watson, instructor in Engineering, and Air Engines and Air Regulations by A. U. Puckett, instructor in Engineering...
...fundamental reason behind Germany's air preponderance over the Allies, and the United States as well, according to Den Hartog and Bollay, is not the quality of the pilot training but the quantity. Unless America expands rapidly both pilot training and aircraft production, "in 15 years we shall be in the same fix England is now," they asserted...
...best means of expanding our air force in the preparedness program, Bollay believes that we should take a leaf from Germany's book and subsidize commercial aviation on a grand scale preparatory to nationalization if and when war comes, as was done with railroad and shipping industries in the last war. For training civilian pilots he feels that the CAA flying course, now in operation at Harvard and many other colleges, and Colonel Knox's government-approved program are steps in the right direction...
Another side of air defense which America has neglected is "basic research," Bollay said. As an example of German superiority here he cited the hellocopter, a type of plane which can land vertically anywhere, proved in a test flight two years ago when one flew about inside Berlin's Sportspalast, Developments such as these, when they have been perfected, will "revolutionize aerial warfare," he declared...