Word: glider
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intercollegiate glider meet which was to be held for four days, beginning May 3, has been postponed, and will be held from May 27 to 30, inclusive...
...glider slope which Harvard graduates in Boston have provided for the meet has been completed and the Aeronautical Society, as well as the club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, already has a new glider of the Wright type in the hangar on the field. There is only one hangar completed thus far, but at the time of the meet there will be more to shelter the gliders of the universities which outer. While the meet is in progress it is probable that members of the aviation school conducted by W. Starling Burgess Co., of Marble head, will give short...
Intercollegiate Glider Meet...
Preparations are being rapidly completed for the intercollegiate glider meet to be held at the Aviation Field, for four days, beginning May 3, under the auspices of the Harvard Areonautical Society. The Contest Committee has designed a unique artificial slope from which the flights will start. The slope will be movable, being mounted on 10-inch iron wheels, but will be blocked up previous to each day's events, facing the direction of the wind and in the spot most favorable for the contests. A car running on a six foot track will carry the gliders...
Harvard graduates in Boston have subscribed for the construction of an artificial glider slope about 40 feet high. From this the machines will be launched for flight. Work on it has already commenced. Besides two gliders the Harvard society will send down the Roe triplane. Several other colleges will also enter more than one machine...