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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lost. Lieutenant Commander H. C. MacDonald, D. S. C. (British) R. N. (retired), and a DeHaviland Gypsy Moth biplane; between Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, and the Eastern Hemisphere. Lieutenant Commander MacDonald set out at noon of Oct. 17 in a plane which had a cruising radius of 3,600 miles, which had a wing spread 20 feet shorter than Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis; which, like Lindbergh's plane, carried no radio apparatus, toted no pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh...
Third: He is conducting his campaign on a high plane of constructive argument. He does not stoop to raucous denunciation, he does not rant. He speaks as a serious student of national problems, recognizing their difficulties, and dealing with them as an engineer and economist. He does not make promises which he knows that he can not fulfill leaving himself loopholes of escape from their literal fulfillment. He has not tried to carry water on both shoulders by appealing both to the wets and the drys, both to the free traders and the protectionists, both to big business...
Tentative plane for the formation of a national organization which would have charge of college aeronautics were drawn up by a committee appointed at the Conference of College Flying Clubs held last Saturday at New Haven, it was announced yesterday by R. B. Bell 26, president of the Harvard Flying Club...
Grover Loening, noted airplane designer and builder, announced in his speech to the convention that his proposed intercollegiate race has been indefinitely postponed. This, he said, was due to the fact that the Harvard Flying Club was the only organization which actually had a plane, and pilots sufficiently experienced to meet the necessary regulations...
...order to catch the foliage at its most advantageous stage exterior views of the Yard, the Freshman dormitories, Memorial Hall, and also of the more distant Arnold Arboretum and Botanical Gardens have been taken first. This week it is planned to use the Harvard Flying Club's plane to obtain an air survey of the various parts of the University. As soon as the exterior scenes, which include pictures of students in the Yard and on the streets, are completed, interior work in lecture rooms, tutorial conferences, the Library, and various activity centers will commence. J. A. Haeseler '23, director...