Thursday. December 7. 1939
The DAILY NEBRASKAN
Air Course Roster
The following students
Training Course offered by
Civil Aeronautics Authority,
Ainlay, John M.
Ankey, Harry R.
Armstrong, Alan
Bachman, Betty J.
Bindernagel, Everett R.
Butt, William A.
Craft, Charles F.
Deaver, Kieth C.
Gatch, Roy P.
Geissinger, Verne E.
Hagerman, Gerald J.
Hakanson, Elinor F.
Hitchcock, Richard E.
Jacobs, William E,
Jeffrey, Robert L.
Kersey, James D.
Kruse, Donald W.
Lauritsen, Carl R.
Meyer, Ralph O.
Nye, Robert M.
Nye, Walter F.
O'Connor, John W.
Parmele, Charles C.
Prince, Stanley R
Pusateri, Frank I.
Robinson, Betty J.
Schainost, Leland E.
Schick, Norris E.
Shappell, James S.
Shellhase, Witlard H.
Smith, Charles U
Smith, Philip H.
Snell, Earl E.
Stastny, L. Richard
Swartz, Maynard T., Jr.
Wiley, Elton R.
Williams, Guy H.
Wilson, Jack R.
Wittmann, Narvin O.
are enrolled in the
the University by
Vocational Flight
contract with the
Engineering Sophomore
Engineering Sophomore
Agriculture Sophomore
Arts and Sciences Junior
Arts and Sciences Sophomore
Business Adm. Junior
Engineering Junior
Engineering Sophomore
Engineering Junior
Arts and Sciences Senior
Engineering Sophomore
Teachers Senior
Engineering Junior
Law Junior
Business Adm. Senior
Engineering 1 Sophomore
Engineering ' Junior
Law Junior
Arts and Sciences Sophomore
Arts and Sciences Junior
Engineering Sophomore
Arts and Sciences Senior
Arts and Sciences Sophomore
Engineering Sophomore
Business Adm. Senior
Arts and Sciences Sophomore
Teachers Junior
Engineering Junior
Business Adm. Senior
Arts and Sciences Junior
Business Adm. Senior
Engineering Sophomore
Business Adm. Junior
Business Adm. Junior
Business Adm. Junior
Engineering Junior
Business Adm. Junior
Engineering Sophomore
Engineering Junior
After days of g roundwork,
fledging pilots try wings
By next June students will complete 30 to 50
hours in air; those ending course get certificates
By Morton Margolin
Whenever the sun brings the De
cember temperature up near the
mark on the thermometer former
ly reserved for spring and when
ever the breezes are not too rough,
39 fledging pilots can be found
waiting at the airport anxious to
try their wings, for the days of
nothing but ground instruction are
"over for Nebraska's students en
rolled in the flying course under
the contract of the civil aeron
autics authority.
A week ago yesterday the offi
cial word came from the offices
of the civil aeronautics authority
allowing students enrolled in the
course to begin their actual flight
training. In less than an hour
many of the students enrolled in
the course were lined up at the
airport waiting for their first les
son in the air.
One student drops course.
Ten of the 39 students are given
their Instruction at the White Fly
ing Service and the other 29 along
. with Wesleyan's students are given
their instruction at the Lincoln
Flying School. Between now and
next June the students will have
completed between 30 and 50 hours
in the air approximately one-half
of which will have been solo. Stu
dents who successfully complete
the course and pass the requisite
government examinations will be.
-given civilian pilots certificates.
d Since the beginning of the course
1 in October one Nebraska stuJcnt
, has dropped out.
Lesson in relaxation.
First Nebraska student to get
into the air was Alan Armstrong,
ag sophomore, who went up to
find that the first lesson is one in
the art of relaxation. Armstrong's
relaxation was so complete that
his instructor, Alva White, let him
take over the controls for level
flying. Armstrong was up nine
minutes during his first lesson.
First girl to make a training
flight from the group of the Ne
braska students was Jean Robin
son, 19 year old sophomore. She
la one of the three Nebraska Uni
versity women students enrolled
in the course.
Air must be calm
Training flights are made by
.ppointment The first flights are
undertaken only when the air Is
' very smooth and calm. Succeeding
flights are undertaken in all kinds
of weather that are deemed safe.
Most students get a taste of gusty
weather before they have com
pleted very many flights. Training
flights will be given all winter
until next June.
Actual flight instruction has be
gun for students at several other
colleges, too. At Omaha univer
sity the instruction began about
a week ago at the Omaha airport.
Omaha's course will end with a
50-mile cross country flight with
stops at two strange airports. At
Wesleyan, flight instruction began
at the same time that it did at
Nebraska. At Iowa State college
flying instruction began earlier in
the year when the city's new air
port runways were finished.
All of the courses in all of the
schools are alike, the students all
get the same amount of ground
instruction and the same type of
flight instruction. Ten students use
one plane.
$40 lab
fee didn't
cut registry
Full quota of 40 sign
for ground work; trio
of women enroll too
The bald fact, published in the
announcement of the CAA flying
course, thnt the $40 lab fee was
required to cover not only the
physical exam and the ground in
struction, but also a S3.000 com
pensation insurance policy did not
deter Nebraska students from
ruhhlng to fill the government
quota.
At the beginning of the course
40 ooHcr-iins were registered and
approve.' for the course. Now
there are 39, but the three women
are still holding their own against
the men roistered for Tight in
struction. The minimum height
requirements were lowered for
Nebraskn's three girls who are
taking the course, but at the last
report they ' are making up the
deficiency by proving that they
really belong In th course.
8ubjects same everywhere
The subjects given in the ground
course are the name in all schools
giving the course under the CAA
contract. Students study the his
tory of avintlon Including every
thing alrliUc from legendary flights
to the development of the most
modern airliners. The fledglings
also get iiidUucllon in math, the
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All set for his first flight and
his first lesson is Alan Arm
strong, ag sophomore, the first
of the fledglings to take to the
air after word came from
Washington allowing flight in
struction to begin. Armstrong
is the shadowy figure in the ing sophomores, all but walk'
plane with his instructor Alva into the propeller in an effort
White. not to miss anything. They got
Armstrong's three c o 1- their turns aloft after Arm
leagues. Dick Hitchcock, engi- strong came down,
neering junior, and Harry An
kney and Walt Nye, engineer-
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Three sideline flyers on the work for the course; Dean O. commission secretary for Ne-
first day of instruction were J. Ferguson, of the college of braska, who watches over all
Jiles W. Haney, of the depart- engineering, whose instructors Nebraska flyers,
ment of mechanical engineer- teach the major part of the
ing, who directs the ground course; and I. V. Packard, air
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Two Cornhuskers going up ing sophomore.
for their first flight adventure Smith seems to be pushing structor, to yell contact which
are William Butt, biz ad jun- up on the propeller while he will mark the beginning of
ior, and Phil Smith, engineer- waits for Joe Princen, flight in- Butt's first flight.
physical sciences and associated
subjects.
Important In the course of study
is Instruction In civil air regula
tions, the traffic rules In the air,
and discussion of the various alti
tudes permissible over cities and
country. They also get instruction
in navigation, aircraft, theory ,of
flight, engines, and instruments.
Study of parachutes and radio is
not neglected.
72 hours of ground work
In all, the ground work totals
72 hours. No university credit is
given for the course, but tho stu
dents who take the course take
it because they love flying.
As for the course next year
nothing is definite. The original
government uctlou provided that
instruction be given for five years,
but the university now possess a
contract for only one year. The
future of the course depends upon
the developments that take place
this year.
Merideth oppointed
Miss Mamie Meredith of the de
partment of English has been ap
pointed to the editorial staff of the
American Business Writing asso
ciation. Miss Meredith will attend
the annual convention of the or
ganization at New Orleans Dec.
28 and 29. She appeared on the
program of the last convention in
Chicago, Bpeaklnjr on the subject
"The Relation of Business Prac
tice and English In Business Correspondence."
Void writes 'defamation'
article for Law Review
Trofessor Lawrence Void of the
college of law is author of an ar
ticle on defamatory interpolation
in radio broadcasts which has been
accepted for publication in the
University of Pennsylvania Law
Review. His article analyzes the
legal problems presented in the
litigation growing out of a chain
broadcast In which the comedian
Al Jolson, while participating in a
dialogue before the microphone, in
response to casual mention of a
certain hotel, interjected without
warning, "That's: a rotten hoteL"
This remark was not contained In
the manuscript which had been
submitted for broadcasting.