Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1926-09-02
IITI JTY COM OFFERING SCHOLARSHIPS in
Flying: BOY AND GIRL ESSAYlSTS TO WIN
COURSES in AVIATION AND ELEClMCllY

In order to stimulate interest In
two modern miracles-eiectriclty ahu
aying-an essay contest among hie'
scbooI students of Georgia is to De
held throughout September by the
Utilities Information Committee Oh
Caorpia and the A. b. McMuiieh
Company, Atlanta Aircraft Corpora
t;on, on the swhject: "How the De-
veIopment Of Flying: Can Advance
the Electrical Art"
Two scholarships will be awarded
tn the winners, each calling for a
comp,ete army course in flying. The
schoIarships will be give nby the Nc
Mullen Company, and the expenses
Of the winners, while in Atlanta TAX
ing the course, will be betrayed IN
full by the Utilities Information
Committee. 4
The instruction, which will require
a maximum of three weeks, will be
given personally by Captain A. b.
McMullen, one of the premier mill
tarv aviation instructors during the
World War, and, since then, a prom
inent. figure in. commercial aviation
IN America. The, instruction will. be
given. 1T Gambler Flied in Atlanta.
ANY .,iga school student who is II
years Of age, or older, is eligible.
One scholarship will be awarded to
boy and another to girl. In the
event no girls participate, the au-
thors of the two best essays among
the boys will he named.
1t will be necessary merely Tor the
contestant to prepare paper, not
longer than 500 words, giving his
non-technical views of the way that
the generation or distribution OF
electricity can be improved through
the use of aircraft or through i'm
provement of the art of flying.
Originality, imagination guided by
logic, and clarity will be considered
in judging the essays.
The board of judges will probably
consist of Governor Clifford Walker,
j. A. X. Maxwell, of HamiltOn-Max-
well, Inc, aerial surveyors; President
p. S. Arkwright, of the Georgia Rail-
way & Power Company; President
M. l.. Brittaia.. Of Georgia Tech;
Secretary F. H. Ahbatt, of the GeOr-
gia Association, and Chairman~L. A.
Magraw, of the Utilities Information
Committee.
Each completed essay is to be sent
with the authors name to the head
quarters of the utilities committee at
1928 Haas-Howell Building, Atlanta.
The contest opens September ! and
closes at midnight September 80.
The judges decision as to the win
r,ers will be announced about Octo-
ber e, and the course will be begun
October IL.
The type of plane to be used is a
Curtiss JN-4-D, the standard type
for instruction during the war, which
is regarded by Captain McMullen as
the best for the work. The safety of
the student will be given full consid-
Grafton. In fact, one of the motives
of the aircraft company in partici-
pating in the contest is to show the
extent to which danger has been
eliminated from modern flying.
The student will be discharged /
from the school competent pilot. !
Captain McMulien. began. his service
in 1917 at Rockwell Field, Cal. Up
on completing the course there,
where he won his wings, he has trans
ferred to the Gosport Instruction
School, where the more likely pilots
were made int constructors. Finish
ing the course, he went to Call Field,
Tex, as an instructor and from
there, much later, to Souther Field
at Americus, Ga. He remained in
the Army Air Service until March,
1920. Since then he has been ac-
lively engaged in commercial flying.
The company at present operates IL
planes in Atlanta and Tampa as we'll
rs the aerial instruction school at
Gambler Field.