Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aviation Course at M. I. T. will open this 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 of the series on the theory of flight...
...course has been divided into six parts. The theory of flight will be followed in order by lectures on "Aviation of Introduction", "Scouting", "Aircraft Instruments", "Aerology", and "Practical Flying", with three or four lectures to each division...
...series of six lecture courses will be given this spring Tuesday and Thursday evenings at M. I. T., with recesses for Midyear examinations and the spring vacation. The 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. Every student is enrolled as a seaman, second class, and while being taught to fly and receiving his 30 hours of "solo" time, is paid, on an average, $85 a month...
...Ground School at M. I. T. and the flight training at Squantum are the first two steps in the complete course leading up to a commission as Ensign in the Naval Reserve. The Squantum course is followed either the same or the succeeding summer by another 46 days of advanced flight training at the Naval Air Station at Hampton Roads, Va., and finally by a professional examination for commission...
Meanwhile Mr. H. A. Bruno of the Fokker Aircraft Corporation entertained reporters by revealing one of Mr. Fokker's hobbies: "Not long ago he indulged his taste for air photography while we were making a survey of possible air routes in Florida. During the whole of a flight over the Everglades, from Fort Myers to Miami, Mr. Fokker kept a sharp lookout for alligators. Whenever he saw a group of them, we swooped down over the swampland and Mr. Fokker ground away at his motion picture camera...