Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slow-motion camera?are being made at Shoeburyness, England, by the British Ordnance Department, to examine the impact of shells on armor plate. The camera weighs two tons, and shows how golf balls and other hard objects are flattened and pressed out of shape when struck and in flight...
...picturing Lampy pere et fils conjures time to turn backward in its flight, and Mr. Noble '88, also breathes Etheu Fugaces in a seven stanza "praise of folly." Mr. McCord '21, and Mr. Alger '22, not yet having felt the sentimental stimulus of a class reunion, shape their sketches in the more or less familiar mold of modern college humor...
...talk, the general will trace the growth of the art of flight from the days of Langley and the Wrights, to the Fokkers and Shenandoahs of modern times. In addition, he will probably indicate his opinions on the conditions and needs of the nation's air force, with reference especially to the aerial mail service...
Preliminary theoretical instruction in the art of flight throughout the spring and intensive practice in, actual flight for 45 days in the sumer, will comprise the course. The competition of this work, however, will open the way to quailing student aviators to enter an operating aviation unit of the regular Navy, will receive advanced instruction after that they will be eligible for an ensign's commission...
...areonautical department of M. R. T. and officers of United States Navy will give the instruction, while Lieutenant George R. Pond, commanding officer of the station at Squantum will be in charge of the school. Students may choose between an early spring and a summer class in flight...