Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Gregg OcC., W. V. Daugherty '20, and George Crompton, Jr., '21. Gregg, who was attached to the Royal Flying Corps will fly in the army contests of May 10 and Daugherty, who was an instructing ensign at Pensacola, Florida, in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps, has been entered as pilot for the naval flights on May 3. Crompton, who was a junior lieutenant in the N. R. F. C. will be in the dirigible contest if one can be obtained...
Lieutenant Gustav Hermann Kissel '16, a flight pilot attached to the Royal Air Force, who has been missing since April 12, 1918, is now reported as killed in action. He enlisted in May as a private in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, completed the course at M. I. T., and went to France the following July for further training. After two months, he was ordered to England, where he received a commission...
Lieutenant Stephen Tullock Hopkins '14, a pilot in the 96th Aero Squadron, A. E. F., was killed in action at St. Mihiel early in September. From the best information available his plane was shot down on September 12, and both he and his observer, Lieutenant Bertram Williams '18, whose death has already been reported, were killed. They are buried at Charey, France...
...sent to Foggia, Italy, where he received his commission after seven months' training. From Foggia he went to Vendome, France, for further training and later to Clermont-Ferrard for practice in bombing and formation flying. At the completion of his training he was sent as a bombing pilot to the 96th Aero Squadron, which has been cited for bravery. He entered active service at the front in August...
...late Mr. Samuel H. Valentine, who was a member of the Board of Governors of the Aero Club. It has been estimated that fully fifty per cent of the total number of Army and Navy aviators are college undergraduates. Prospective competitors will be required to hold the pilot's certificate which is issued by the Aero Club of America...