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...economical use of gasoline, and secondly on their speed. Furthermore, it was stipulated that every pilot be required to fly 20 hours and make 25 perfect landings before the race. The trials for the pilots are to be held during the spring recess at the Army flying fields at Mineola, N. Y., under the supervision of the Army officials. There will be no restriction as to the number of men going to Mineola from the University Aeronautical Society...
...also decided that the course of the race would be shortened, the official route being as follows: Mineola, N. Y., Stamford, Conn., New Haven, Newark, N. J., Princeton and back to Mineola...
...intercollegiate race, which is the first of its kind, will be over a course of 550 to 600 miles, beginning and ending at Mineola, and taking in Boston en route. The colleges which will enter two planes each are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Williams, and Cornell...
...race will cover approximately 600 miles, starting from Mineola, L. I., thence to New Haven, Newport, Boston, Worcester, Hartford, Newark, Princeton, and back to Mineola. Each of the seven colleges entered will be represented by four men and two ships, the ships taking off at five-minute intervals. The race will be held under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Flying Association, of which L. E. Thomas '20 is president...
Howard Rogers Clapp, in whose memory the scholarship is established, attended the Plattsburgh Camp and the School of Military Aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1917, and after a subsequent course of training at Mineola became a member in 1918 of the 22nd Aero Squadron, A. E. F. He was killed in action over Yonca, France, November...