AERONAUTICS: College Flyers

Two dozen undergraduate college flyers left Detroit last week, proud of having formed an Intercollegiate Aeronautics Association, poor from the expenses made at Detroit, encouraged by promises of free raining planes from sympathetic manufacturers.

The University of Detroit Aero Society sponsored the organization conference. It tried to get representatives from the three dozen U. S. universities that countenance flying. Men from only 15 schools could afford to attend. They listened to, among others, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics Edward Pearson Warner, Associate Editor Myron Weiss of TIME, President Grover C....

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