At Purdue University's tidy airport near Lafayette, Ind., at commercial fields near twelve other institutions of higher learning across the continent, 330 college students last week were being trained with National Youth Administration money ($100,000 in all) to go into the most deadly activity in U. S. aviation—amateur flying. Vanguard of a host of private pilots that Civil Aeronautics Authority hopes to turn out at the rate of 20,000 a year from hundreds of U. S. colleges, they will have better basic training than the run of cornfield fliers.
They will be turned loose...
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