Word: pabsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Flying Club will enter air meets at Worcester on Saturday and at Providence later in the season, it was announced yesterday at, the first meeting of the club. The new Curtis Travelair plane, entered in the air meets, will be piloted by A. V. Pabst 21., of Milwaukee, and Crocker Snow '28, of Boston...
...plane is a Curtis Travelair 0xx6, a more powerful machine than the one formerly in the possession of the Club. It was purchased at Wichita, Kansas, and flown to Boston by A. N. Pabst 3L. and M. N. Fairbank '28 in a successful five-day trip, in which the only mishap was a forced landing at Troy, N. Y., caused by a small leak in the fuel tank...
...present time the organization has five qualified pilots. F. L. Ames '28 heads the list with 240 hours of solo-flying. In the order of their experience follow: A. U. Pabst 2L., a naval reservist, 150 hours; O. A. Spalding '27, 60 hours; Crocker Snow 1L., ex-member of the 101st Pursuit Group, 55-hours; and F. J. Otis '27, of the JN4D squad, 50 hours. Ames and Otis own their own planes in addition. All these men are licensed in the State of Massachusetts and Ames, Pabst and Spalding have applied for certificates from the Department of Commerce...
...time spent in the club plane Spalding leads with 40 hours to his credit. The other pilots follow: Snow, 30 hours; Pabst, 20 hours; Otis, 16 hours; and Ames, 9 hours. Five additional men expect to qualify this summer as pilots, either in the Naval Flight School at Squantum or by taking private instruction. They are: R. W. Ayer '28, Brutus Brooks ocC., W. N. Bump '28, M. N. Fairbank '28, R. E. Gregg '28, and F. P. Sprout '28. Ayer, Bump and Gregg expect to go to Squantum; Brooks and Fairbank will take instructions at Curtiss Field, Kong Island...
...college students in the country to purchase and operate its own plane. For the past month the club ship has been in the air almost every day, piloted by one of the four students who have qualified as pliots: F. L. Ames '29, O. A. Spalding '27, A. U. Pabst 2L, and Crocker Snow 1L. Over 75 passengers have been carried, the plane has been in the air over 30 hours, and approximately eight hours of instruction has been given to specially qualified members of the club. A rigid daily inspection system has prevented all accidents, the only mishap...