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Another new feature of the admissions system for '47 will be the credit given for new technical courses such as preflight aeronautics, Navigation, and Radio. Although not counted for courses this type of work will be given consideration in the acceptance of the preparatory school student...
...talking about was issued last week by New York City's school superintendent. For not only in New York but all over the land school children are speaking a strange new language, fazing their elders with terms like wobble pump, advection, burble, troposphere, chandelle, nacelle. A fourth R, preflight training, is now a part of many curricula. Its purpose is to condition school children to take to the air almost as soon as they leave the classroom. Less purposefully, but just as certainly, preflight training will mark an immensurably great divide between the airborne generation of the post...
...Pacific. Its head coach, Grand Old Amos Alonzo Stagg, is a firm and vigorous 80 (see cut) and not likely to quit as long as he can hear the thump of foot on football. Among the first-rate coaches who have flocked to the Navy's Preflight Training Schools are: Minnesota's Bernie Bierman (Iowa Preflight), Fordham's Jim Crowley (North Carolina Preflight), Southern Methodist's Matty Bell (Georgia Preflight), Southern California's Sam Barry (St. Mary's Preflight...
...York State appropriated $150,000 to start preflight training this month in 50 high schools...
...Training Corps of America, semi-official godfather to the training program, estimated that 500,000 high-school students will be enrolled in its preflight training units this fall...