Word: squantum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportunity is offered students of the University 'who will complete their college work this coming June to take an intensive training course in aviation. The Naval Flying Unit at Squantum is attempting to secure about 50 students from Harvard and Technology who will enter a course of training which will eventually qualify them as ensigns in the Naval Reserve Aviation Corps. Attention is called to the fact that this is open not only to students in the college, but also to those of the graduate schools in the University...
...series of lectures beginning of February 4, and continuing three times a week until June 1. The lectures are to be given in the afternoon at the Guggenheim Aeronautical laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following the course of lectures there will be primary flight training at Squantum. Those who are successful in passing this training will be sent to the Naval Flying School at Pensacola, Florida, for an eight months course. The training at Pensacola includes more than 200 hours of flying, which is sufficient for a transport license. Those who qualify at Pensacola will be commissioned...
...time spent in the club plane Spalding leads with 40 hours to his credit. The other pilots follow: Snow, 30 hours; Pabst, 20 hours; Otis, 16 hours; and Ames, 9 hours. Five additional men expect to qualify this summer as pilots, either in the Naval Flight School at Squantum or by taking private instruction. They are: R. W. Ayer '28, Brutus Brooks ocC., W. N. Bump '28, M. N. Fairbank '28, R. E. Gregg '28, and F. P. Sprout '28. Ayer, Bump and Gregg expect to go to Squantum; Brooks and Fairbank will take instructions at Curtiss Field, Kong Island...
...lectures will continue through April, with recesses for mid-year examinations and the spring vacation. The last will be held in April. Examinations will then be conducted and the selection of the students who are eligible for the first summer training period at Squantum will be announced...
During the summer there are two six-week training periods, the first of which is held at Squantum, and the other at Hampton Roads...