Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...club, with the aim of furthering the development of aviation. The object of the club it to promote interest in aviation by securing the co-operation of men connected with flying, and to secure capital to aid in the commercial and scientific development of the airplane and the dirigible balloon...
...dirigible balloon from the U. S. Naval Air Station at Chatham will make a flight to Cambridge today in the interests of the Liberty Loan. The pilot has been directed by Lieut, A. D. Brewer '01, who is in charge of the Chatham station, to cruise in the vicinity of Harvard Square and Soldiers Field for at least half an hour...
...University Aeronautical Society has entered pilots in both the land and the sea-plane contests which commence next Saturday, as well as in the balloon contest which takes place at Akron, Ohio, the middle...
...Aeronautical Society has accepted the invitation of the Akron, Ohio, Flying Club to take part in the balloon-contest on May 10. It was thought that the University would not be represented in the meet because of difficulty in securing a balloon, but the Akron organization has offered to provide an airship for the race. In the contest, fliers from ten colleges of this country will be entered. G. Crompton '20 will pilot the University airship, and will be accompanied by several other members of the Aeronautical Society. The balloons will start from Akron, Ohio, and the crew which reaches...
Lieutenant Putnam also held the French War Cross before the award of this last decoration. He had a total of twenty enemy planes and an observation balloon to his credit when he was brought down on the Lorraine front by four German planes. He was the leader of the University's "Aces...