Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1916-1916
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...general plan of the work for the coming year was outlined and definite steps were taken in the assignment of topics and announcements of competitions. The first competition held by the Society is to be closed on November 1, when the designs for strut fittings for a military tractor biplane are due. At the next meeting of the Society four members will speak on the different types of controls for biplanes. Three of the speakers are licensed pilots and are to speak of their own experiences with the corpse of controls which they will explain. The Aero Society wishes...
...corps were in training at the Thomas School in Ithaca, N. Y. under the instruction of Frank Burnside, one of the most skillful of American aviators. The instruction was given exclusively on water machines. The machine used by the members of the Flying Corps was a D2 tractor, reconaisance type. The five men who received instruction at this school were Samuel Pierce Mandell, 2d, '19, of Hamilton, Mass.; William Henry Meeker '17, of New York, N. Y.; Kenneth Merrick '19, of Boston; Arthur Richmond '18, of Boston, and Herbert Pulitzer '19, of New York...