Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relaxation of the physics requirement for admission to the government's airplane flight instruction program was announced today by Dean Harald M. Westergaard, chairman of the University flight committee...
Applications for the flight training, which will qualify students as private pilots, will be received until Saturday noon in Pierce Hall...
...attacked "with little opposition from the German Air Force." The account of a British flier was released, telling how he spotted a U-boat two miles off, sneaked up on it behind a cloud. He opened fire at a man on the conning tower and let go a flight of bombs. These hit the water ahead of the submarine, which was diving. The explosions blew it back to the surface and "the nearest bomb of my second salvo was a direct hit on the submarine's port side. There was a colossal explosion and her whole stern lifted...
...flight comic strips are today consciously comic, few still appeal primarily to children. Like movies and pulp fiction, they are mostly simple narratives for the unsophisticated of all ages. First comic-strip character to find high adventure in Europe's war was the Register and Tribune Syndicate's Jane Arden girl reporter for a mythical newspaper...
Subjects covered in the ground course will include history of aviation; civil air regulations; navigation; meteorology; parachute training; aircraft and theory of flight; engines; instruments; and radio uses and forms. The ground course will be completed in the first half year...