Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Elementary navigation: this class will include only those who apply especialy for such a course. The instruction will cover generally those parts of the subject that will be useful for motorboat owners and others interested in the management of power boats employed with the patrol squadrons, such as pilot- ing, dead reckoning, chart reading...
Applicants for commissions as reserve officers who hold the pilot certificate of the Aero Club of America will, after undergoing the physical examination, be given a flying examination embodying the requirements of the preliminary test. If competent they may also take the reserve military aviator's test. If they pass this second test, they will be given a commission in the Aviation Section, Signal Reserve Corps...
...truth of the question is that a man who is blessed with a genius for writing will become an author with or without college training. Mark Twain gained his college training in a printing office and a pilot house, and Cooper gained his on board a fighting ship. Schools of authorship will probably never exist, for the man who specializes in the art of authorship will need little help in the selection of his courses. College training will help these men of gifted ability, but it can never produce them. The reasons for the lack of literary geniuses during...
...will have a summer training school, provided twenty men sign an agreement to spend two-months, between July 1 and September 15, at such a camp, and will deposit $50 as a guarantee of good faith. This deposit will be returned as soon as the pupil has passed his pilot's license test...
...housed under a tent erected behind the baseball stands. Though some difficulty was experienced during the moving owing to the narrowness of the Boylston street bridge, the field was reached without accident. It was decided, therefore, to make a trial of the engine, and with Martin in the pilot's seat the machine went four times the length of the field under its own power...