Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aeronautical Society has decided to organize a squadron on plans similar to those used in the Navy. A chief pilot will be in charge of all flights and under him there will be several instructors. R. A. Griswold Occ. has been elected chief pilot; other pilots will be announced latter as well as the names of the two men who will be trained by the society to qualify as pilots this spring. Griswold was a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy during the war and was recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross for having bombed a submarine at Killingholm, England...
...being the safest plane that the Navy ever flew. A speed of 65 knots can be attained in it. The Aeromarine has the pontoon beneath the lower plane which distinguishes it from the flying boat in which the cockpit is in the hull, and the motor above the pilots head. In the Aeromarine the engine is in front of the pilot...
This proposal was in accord with the general policy of the Army officials who will take an important part in the conduct of the race and in the supplying of planes, with the aim of securing conditions as nearly approaching absolute safety as possible. Under the proposed scheme the pilots will be graded first on their landings and take-offs, the condition of their machines after the flight, and the 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...
...coxswains have been needed this spring. Those who have been chosen are E. L. Peirson, Jr. '21, who coxed the first University crew last year, and F. S. Williams '22, who was coxswain of the first Freshman crew last spring. S. C. Badger '23, has been selected to pilot the Freshman boat at present; he has had experience at Brown and Nichols School, and was also active in fall rowing...
Tonight at 7.30 the University Aeronautical Society will inaugurate its campaign for new members with an open meeting in the Union. Lieut-Col. L. H. Drennan of the Northeastern Department, who will talk on "The Training of the Pilot," will be the principal speaker. All former pilots in the University are invited to attend...