Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...primary object of the Corps is to start a training school for military aviators. As the best school of this sort is maintained by the French Army at Pau, it is planned to model this one directly along those lines...
...colorful web of reminiscence and meditation. He pleads for a creed of spiritual temperance, of purity and discipline, for the sake of the aesthetic satisfaction to be derived from such a view. This he calls the pagan morality, and such it is if Francis Thompson is the authentic model of Catholicism and Cotton Mather of non-Catholic Christianity. But may it not here be the signs of a growth in wisdom, the accumulation of maturing years? Besides, poets are notoriously poor philosophers; even Dante has been suspected of heresy for placing Siger de Brabant in Paradise. And so Mr. Wright...
...with it the aviator must learn to turn corners and execute other more difficult moves. Vol-planing is attempted in the next stage of development, which calls for a Caudron biplane or a Bleriot monoplane. A height of 2000 feet is attained. Next the candidate takes an 80-horsepower model and flies as far and as high as he wishes. He is now ready for his brevet, for which he must undergo three tests: first, stay an hour at a height of 6500 feet with self-registering barograph; second, make a triangular trip of 130 miles inside of 48 hours...
...Krag-Jorgensen magazine rifles ordered for the Regiment have arrived in Cambridge, and have been stored in the basement of Smith Halls. In addition to the 1050 rifles, model 1898, 1050 model 1902 front sights and muzzle covers, 1050 small arm oilers, 1050 cleaning rods, sections one, two, and three, 210 screw-drivers, and 105 arm chests have also been received...
Forty thousand rounds of ball cartridges, model 1898, came with the rest of the equipment. This ammunition has not been unloaded from the cars yet, but arrangements are being made...