Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aviation Course at M. I. T. for which Harvard students are eligible will open next Tuesday evening with a preliminary recruiting lecture at 7 o'clock. The lecture will be illustrated, and will be followed next week by the first lecture on the theory of flight...
...borders upon notice from the U. S. that it is to the detriment of the defenses of the Canal. 2) Upon due notice, the armed forces of the U. S. may proceed into or through Panama, even in peace time, for "maneuvers or other military purposes." 3) The flight of U. S. military aircraft over Panama shall be unrestricted, but other foreign aircraft shall be regulated with the cardinal purpose of protecting the Canal. 4) The U. S. receives in perpetuity the "use, occupation and control" of Manzanilla Island (at the Atlantic terminus of the Canal) and the harbor...
...Central America, a half-dozen specks capable of landing on either land or water progressed southwards in hops and jumps. They were the six U. S. Army amphibian planes bearing their crews on the first legs of their proposed "friendship flight" around South America...
...students receiving the highest average in Ground School will be selected for flight training this summer, and upon passing the Flight Physical Examinations, will be ordered to Squantum for 45 days' active duty...
...factor that will do more than anything else to aid the cause of aviation, will be the advance of the science of meteorology. Until flyers have some accurate way of determining the weather before starting on a flight, there will always be expense and a low factor of safety connected with aviation. As long as flying can be considered a dangerous luxury for individuals, conservatives will criticise it with some degree of impunity as an evil and unnecessary invention...