The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-09
PLAN TO TRAIN The
NATIONS Av|AT0IS
eurtiss Company Making Plaus Now
for Three Great schools TO
Meet tho Need.
COLLEGE MEN ENLISTING
Sixty-scvcn From Yale and 80 From
OHIO State Visit Factory--Rcady
for First Lesson.

buffalo. n. Y, April s.--If you were
hiindfolded, do you think you could
mop along a chalkiine on the floor
ana not get more than a foot from it
either TO the right or to the left?
j nat tests equilibrium.
II you were seated on a piano stool
and then whirled around. do you
think you could read five lines Of
ordinary type held a few feet from
/ you? That's a test of vision
| one hundred and thirteen young
men have been in Buffalo within the
last week who are interested in avia-
4 uon. sixty of them come from
| Yale university and fortv-six of them
/ from Ohio state. 1t is likely that
many or thes" young mon and some
/ three hundred others will he trained
! for the aviation corps Of the army
and the navy in Buffalo and the other
Curtiss schools this spring and sum-
/ Nor
| The sixty-sevcn Yale students.
many OF them from cities in the Mid.
die and Far West, came to Buffalo
under the direction OF these members
of the Yale faculty, j. w Koc, II, l..
Seward, Z. q. Waters and T. NJ. VIII
icox, They spent the day at the Cur
tiss Aeroplanc company, visiting the
motor plant in Elmwood avenue and
the aeroplane department In Chur-
chill street,
! Because of the present crisis In
American affairs" said Professor Roe,
the spokesman for the party, yale
will probably discontinue spring and
summer athletics Harvard will do
the same. Practically all the univer-
stiles Will follow suit The chief in
, terest of tho students now is in the
practical possibilities offered by avia-
ton The United States cannot have
too many trained young men in the
reserve corps, and Yale has taken up
the problem with the interest and en-
thusiasm which has always inspired
its activities
Princeton university had secured an
aviation field larger than the training
ground which the Curtiss company
has at Buffalo Curtiss aeroplane in
structors are experimenting the in
stallation Of the hangers The Uni
versity OF Michigan and University OF
! Illinois are also beginning aviation
study. and many requests for instruc-
tors are being received from students
of these and other Western schools
c, NJ. Manley, Of the Curtlss com
pany led the university men through
the motor plant, explaining in detail
all the items Of construction pertfnent
TO aeroplane engine design The men
climbed to the roof OF tho nlant and
after Waddnr their ears with cotton
TO deaden the roar OF the engines on
The test block, watched the motors
whirl the propeller blades around at
! ]. 500 revolutions n minute. they
watched the rocker avn vajvee =.
their wonderfully timed work. At
fthe Churchill plant tho students were
taken through the various denart-
ments nv Fav Fanrote who evnlaI,,aa
the details Of wing design and max,
ing. tho tailoring Of Tho VIM cInths
the assembly Of the fuselasn with tho
various engineering devices Ira cr.
down weight and tc nrovcp+ tho cor-
rodinr nj the wires on which thc
aytators life dnpcnde In air
More than : 600 requests for air.
training have come m tho ,~,rtjo.
Dlant from thn coi,ecos ana f-o,,
,--,,r., ,,7nr II, other ,rre,,ite d,,,.i,,e,
the last unaL The r,urtiss ,l.,,,,,,,,,
iii rain +ha mon under the dirnc-
ton of the T-nitos states rovnrrrno,,t
Plans arc now beine made fo,, ercot
schools OF students here in rrralo
at Miami, FL. ana -. vcwro~t News
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11ot,"N' ''s'i NIX teS,eo ny N"l rus
iistiu.s' ,F'NP aid uaIlHs an enter
"i'r ~, t"e pilSS'cal 'N"',l'Ha''o',,
ne wing men VINO d.a lslN are
mon sent 10 the scnools' "affc a'ter
course oI lessons ny expert nlerS II
Is determined "he'her theN possess
mo necessary courage and judgment
TO become real hVers' Inc govern
ment pays IN" expenses OF the train
ing anu AT inc end the now aviator