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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Flying Club Travelair plane will rise into the air at the Boston Airport this noon at 12 o'clock bound for Hartford, Conn., where, at 2 o'clock, it will compete in the New England Aeronautical Society meet over Brainard Field...
Today's races will be the first entered by the Flying Club plane this spring, and the events will include an altitude flight, a speed race, and a parade. A.U. Pabst 31, will do the cross country flying to and from Hartford, and during the meet, it is expected that the Harvard pilots will be W. N. Bump '29, F. P. Sproul '29 and M. N. Fairbanks...
Following the various flying events the group of pilots will make an inspection tour of the Pratt and Whitney factory, makers of Wasp, air-cooled engines, and will later witness an exhibition of Handley Page wing being demonstrated on a Moth plane...
From 5 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock in the evening, W. N. Bump '28, W. C. Harris '28, f. P. Sproul '29, and H. H. Timken '30, used the club's plane, turning it up and practicing for the an meet they will enter tomorrow. At 12 o'clock tomorrow, the Club plane will leave the Boston Airport for Brainard Field, Hartford, in time for the New England Aeronautical Society meet, which starts at 2 o'clock...
...been for this decision, the Yale Aeronautical Society would have participated in the altitude races at Brainard Field, Hartford, on Saturday, and in the intercollegiate races next month, in which the Harvard Flying Club is entering its Travelair plane...