Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unless he joins with previous experience, the new members's first step is to secure a Student Pilot Certificate, restricted to those 16 years or older, who know English and have at least 20/30 corrected vision in each eye. Since learning to fly is not like driving a car--for an aviator cannot stop to think things over--ground instruction is required before the student goes aloft...
...flights and more dual work follow, along with cross-country trips, perhaps to New Bedford. It is up to the student to set his own pace. When he has logged a minimum of 45 hours in the air, he becomes eligible to take the government examination for his Private Pilot's License, which entitles him to carry passengers...
...service to the University community, the Club last spring offered a charter flight service on an informal non-profit basis. The pilot and his passengers divided costs, giving passenger an inexpensive trip, and the pilot more hours logged toward his commercial rating. Although requests were heavy, only a half dozen flights could be arranged, because of flying conditions and scheduling problems. This year, charter flights will be dropped, except, perhaps, on an informal basis...
...central activity--"furnishing Harvard men with an opportunity to fly themselves"--continues, and any student who wants to become a pilot, whether or not he has ever been off the ground, is welcome in the Club. It is not a sport for the indolent, but to those who are serius, flying offers real satisfactions...
...idea began three years ago with a quiet pilot project, financed by the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Scholarship Fund for Negro Students, at Manhattan's Junior High School 43 on the western fringe of Harlem. No school could have been better chosen. Its students (85% Negro and Puerto Rican) 'rere demoralized and uninterested; de-leatist parents saw little future for their children and took scant notice of their schooling...