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The DAILY NEBRASKAN
Air-minded NU students get opportunity to show their stuff
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Not quite a year from now,
the drone of air-plane motors
overhead will remind Nebras
ka students that some of their
classmates will have completed
the air training course offered
here by the Civil Aeronautics
Authority in cooperation with
the college of engineering.
Forty collegians, including
three girls at last count are
registered in the two semester
course being taught here.
Right now, ground work train
ing is getting under way, with
a few of the members of the
class confining their studies to
that part of aviation in itself.
Some of the instructors han
dling Jhe ground work, that is
instruction in math, the physi
cal sciences, and other associ
ated subjects are Prof. J. W.
Haney, Dr. N. A. Bengtson,
Prof. D. II. Darkness, Prof.
E. 0. Martin, Prof. P. W. Nor
ris, Prof. Chauncey Smith, and
Prof. W. P. Weiland.
Students enrolled in the
course must be between 16 and
25 and have the consent of
their parents, in addition to
passing a rigid physical exam
ination. The men must be at
least 5 feet 4 inches tall and
must weigh at least 115 pounds
while the girls must reach 62
inches and weigh 100 pounds.
$40 lab fee.
Enrollees have paid a $40
lab fee, covering 72 hours of
ground school, the physical
exam and $.'1,000 compensation
insurance. The flight instruc
tion, to come later, is free.
After football season, an at
tempt will be made to get the
extra class periods to make up
for time lost in getting started
during the fall. This may ne
cessitate running first semes
ter classes into the winter ses
sion. At Wesleyan, 10 boys and
one girl are registered in the
course, which got under way
out there this week. One of
the 11 will be eliminated later
on, as the government stipu
lation allows that school only
10 entrants.
Late changes in the cost of
medical exams and insurance
have made it possible for Wes
leyan to reduce the tuition fee
from $40 to $30. The second
part of the course ,that is the
actual flying training will
come under the instruction
from the Lincoln Flying school
at the municipal airport.
Subjects same all over.
The subjects studied are the
same at all schools. The history
of aviation, including every
thing airlike from legendary
flights to the development of
World War fighting ships is
one course.
Instruction in civil air regu
lations, the traffic rules in the
air, discussion as an important
subject the various permissable
altitudes over cities and coun
try is an important part of the
course.
A few other courses that will
put the 40 N. U. hardies to
work are navigation, aircraft
and theory of flight, engines,
and instruments.
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The ear won't be much like this, but
U pleasant while it lasts think Corn
huskers Hertxler Knox. McCoolc Calvin
Parmele. Lincoln; Doyle Kersey. Grand
bland: Betty Bachman, Omaha; Erer
ett Bindemagel. Beatrice; and Donald
Kruse. Fort Calhoun.
Parachutes and radio train
ing also come in for a large
share of study.
When students finish the
course they will have had from
35 to 50 hours of flying, either
solo or instructional, and from
then on their original plans,
whether to enter commercial
flying, military service, or fly
for fun will be 100 percent ad
vanced. Purpose?
Whether the government in
tends to "put an airplane in
every home" or whether it is
cooperating in the flying edu
cation of America's collegians
for military purposes is de
batable. The main thing is
that much interest has been
created by the institution of
the flying courses.
At least, flying as a voca
tion has been brought consid
erably closer to the average in
dividual through this training.
Now maybe little Jimmic's
dream of being an airplane
pilot some day will become a
reality without the requisites
of a lot of money and years of
hard work without sufficient
instruction.
Engineering research has en
abled the University to make the
first extensive report on the ther
mal properties of oxygen, nitrogen
and ethlylene, information which
is of value in developing processes
for separating gaseous mixtures
used in industry today.
National pharmacy week owes
its origin to the University of Ne
braska College of rharmacy. In
1914 the University held the first
week devoted to pharmaceutical
progress. Since then the Nebraska
program has served as a model for
the national observance.
Iowa cadets
to try wings
First CAA flights
await new airport
AMES, Iowa, Nov. 2 Iowa
State college civil aeronautics stu
dents, originally scheduled to "try
their wings" for the first time this
week, will not take to the air until
the airport near Ames is finished
next week.
The airport has been enlarged
from 40 to 80 acres and two new
half-mile gravel-base runways are
under construction. Estimated cost
for improving the field is $1,300.
Five new 65-horsepower Aero
nica Chief planes have been pur
chased at a cost of $2,034 each for
training the 40 students enrolled in
the flying course. Instruction so
far has been limited to "ground
work." Col. W. A. Bevan is in
charge of the pilot training.
Student hits
pedestrian
W. C. Pike dies
from accident
W. C. rike, 62, 1920 G, struck by
a car driven by Edwin Wittenberg,
at Lincoln General hospital,
university student, died last night
Tike was hit at 9:40 p. m. Wed
nesday at 15th and L. The car w.ts
owned by Ben Simon A Sons.
Wittenberg said he did not w-e
Pike until after he had struck him.
Booked to appear Thursday morn
ing on reckless driving charges, he
was granted a week's continuance.
He will be heard Nov. 9. The car
was going east on L. skidding for
about 30 feet after the impact, ro
lice said.
Some 70 college and university
presidents are graduates of Indi
ana university.
The federal government spends
$14,000 for every student gradu
ated from the U. S. naval academy.
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coln; end Stanley Princs, Piarc. look
intUian0y at a motor and wonder
what iff all about When they finish
the university ground course, they will
know.
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on. rairheid, Frank Srwyer. Torriio
ton. Wyoj )eaa Robinson. Lincoln.
Wall Nye. Lincoln; Harry Ankeny. Lbv
coin; and Gerald Hagerman. Niobt ara.
climb on board to try Cyina on tb
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