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...applicants accepted will be sent abroad immediately to be trained, and will be on duty as soon as they have completed their course of study satisfactorily. The work in training will be in dirigible flying as well as in aeroplane, in captive balloon flying, map drawing, etc. While in this work the men accepted will have the rank of second-class seamen, and should they pass their examination at the end of a period of about three months, they will receive commissions as ensigns...
Five members of the University left yesterday morning for somewhere in the West to commence training for dirigible balloon flying. Their destination is not revealed by the government authorities, but it is known that they will be the first in the country to study balloon aviation as provided by the program of the War Department...
...will be trained by the Connecticut Aircraft Company and will be allowed to use the new dirigible balloon which that company has recently constructed for the United States Navy. It is the first such balloon which has been constructed for the Navy. The balloon itself is 175 feet long, 35 feet, wide and 50 feet high, including the car. It is propelled by a 150 horse-power Sturtivant motor which drives two propellors of the swivel type. It is capable of carrying a crew of eight men and a useful load of two thousand pounds. The balloon can rise either...
...summer during the encampment period at Tobyhanna. The Aircraft Company is building a peculiar type of observation kites which are used by the thousands in the European war today. These kites are about 80 feet long and have a sack or tail which fills with air and keeps the balloon steady. They rise to a height of 2,000 or 3,000 feet and are connected by a cable to an automobile. The cable has a telephone wire inside so that the operators in the balloon can telephone where they observe the shot to strike. The heads of the foreign...
...Horace Parker Chandler '64 gives some very interesting reminiscences of his college days. The editor has an article on the subject of raising the tuition fee, now much discussed in academic circles. As Mr. Thayer is an Overseer as well as an editor, his article is probably a trial balloon to see how the graduates will take the subject...