Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More birdies for golf links urged at Cornell. . . . Kills self in hut shared by goat. . . . Mosquito wins flight honors. . . . Woman publishes newspaper. . . . Asks $10,000 for Barber's slash. . . . Has taught school for 67 years. . . . Kentucky grandmother jailed for bootlegging...
Phase (a): Thirty-day flight elimination course. Students are enlisted as privates, promoted to privates 1st class, Marine Corps Reserve, placed on active duty and ordered to one of the Reserve training bases for flight elimination course which carries the student through the dual instruction stage and checks him for solo flying. Students failing to qualify for solo flight are immediately ordered to their home, placed on inactive duty and discharged from the Reserve at their own request. Those students who successfully pass solo check are immediately ordered to the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, for accomplishment of the second...
Phase (b): Eight-months period covering complete course of flight training as given to officers of the regular service, including 200 hours of flying. Students failing to complete this course are ordered to inactive duty, as indicated by the first phase of training. Those students who successfully complete this course are examined for commission as second lieutenants, Marine Corps Reserve, and if found qualified are ordered to active duty with regular Marine squadrons, where the third phase of training is given...
Phase (c): One year's active duty with rank, pay and allowances of second lieutenant, Marine Corps Reserve, with regular Marine Corps operating squadrons, where they receive a course of military indoctrination and advanced flight training. The pay and allowance of a second lieutenant on active aviation duty are approximately $245 a month...
...Haiti (TIME, March 24). Umpire of that theoretical conflict was Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, whose criticisms of the Navy put him on the "waiting orders" list for months (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927). Scouting planes from the Lexington located the Saratoga and Langley just after daybreak while their flight decks were filled with aircraft. Admiral Magruder ruled that the Lexington planes damaged the Saratoga's flight deck which was later destroyed by bombers from the Lexington. Likewise the Langley was put out of commission before her planes could rise and fight...