STUDENTS HAVE CHANCE TO JOIN FLYING CLUB

After six weeks of successful operation of its three passenger travel-air plane purchased last fall, the Harvard Flying Club is offering all students in the college interested in flying an opportunity to try out for membership in the Club, which has hitherto been restricted to men privately elected.

The Club is the first and only group of college students in the country to purchase and operate its own plane. For the past month the club ship has been in the air almost every day, piloted by one of the four students who have qualified as pliots: F. L. Ames '29, O. A. Spalding '27, A. U. Pabst 2L, and Crocker Snow 1L. Over 75 passengers have been carried, the plane has been in the air over 30 hours, and approximately eight hours of instruction has been given to specially qualified members of the club. A rigid daily inspection system has prevented all accidents, the only mishap of any sort so far being a flat tire.

The Club is now in its second year of post-war activity. Before the war, the predecessor of the present organization. The Harvard Airplane Club, included in its active membership a number of men now prominent in aeronautical circles, and these men are welded into a semi-permanent alumni committee which will direct the policies of the present organization.

The present membership of the club is 22 and, as a large percentage of these are Seniors and will not be back next year, the officers of the club have departed from their usual custom and announced a short competition to fill the vacated memberships.

Men who are interested in flying and in the Harvard Flying Club are asked to report to W. N. Bump '28, President of the club, at 43 Westmorly Court at 7 o'clock this evening. No previous experience is necessary. Competitors will be asked to spend an afternoon each week at the airport for the next three weeks. They will be expected to do a little mechanical work. The chief aim of the competition, however, is to give men who may be unknown to the club members an opportunity to demonstrate their interest in the activities of the club. At the end of the three weeks a number of men will be elected to membership with attendant privileges in the use of the club's facilities for flight.