Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Aeronautical Society decided at a meeting held yesterday to start flying within a month. Last summer their aeromarine scaplane was disabled and practically demolished while on a flight from Marblehead to Lake Geroge. The accident was caused by a defective connecting rod. The society is now making arrangements to purchase a new plane of the same type...
...year old. Deprived of their quarry, the Elis turned to vent their anger upon the University quarters at Red Top and swept down on the deserted Crimson camp- deserted except for six waiters. The Yale oarsmen dashed to the flag-pole and started off, but were checked in their flight by the valiant forces of the waiting squad. There followed an unequal hand-to-hand contest in which the small handful of Crimson supporters were worsted...
Since the arrival of its Aeromarine plane from Philadelphia last week the University Aeronautical Society has been able to begin its plan of training undergraduates to quality as pilots. A. H. Andrews '20, one of the two men selected, has been given his first flight and his training will continue until he has taken the requisite 15 hours of solo flight...
...Kirkland of Cornell won the acrobatic event, next on the program. The third event, landing to a mark, was captured by Pyne of Princeton. In the final event, the alert competition in which the aviators were required to dress in flying togs and prepare their planes for flight, Perry of Williams left the ground first, capturing first place...
...other five events which will be held are as follows: an altitude test, a take-off and landing to mark contest, a manoeuyring and acrobatic event, and an alert competition. This last event will be in the nature of an obstacle race. The contestants will prepare their machines for flight and dress in flying togs, the first man off the ground winning. R. Blynn Varnum, Unc., is entered in the acrobatics and manoeuvres; L. T. Lanman '20, in the landing to a mark; J. B. Garver, 1L., in the alert competition, and R. Tuckerman '20, in the altitude flight...