Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-14
FIELD Of AVIATION
INVITES YOUNG MEN
Commander of Naval ACtivi.
ties offers Course in
Ground Training.

! An opportunity for young men of
Washington with college educations to
obtain valuable ground training in a
course that prepares for preliminary
and advanced flight training and sub
sequent commission as ensign in
Naval Reserve aviation, is given in the
announcement last night by Lieut. E. w.
Rounds, commander of Naval Reserve
aviation activities here, of meeting
to be held Wednesday night at 1870
/ o'clock in room 90, Corcoran Hall,
George Washington University.
This meeting is being arranged to
line up candidates for the training and,
incidentally, to form a nucleus for q
flying reserve force for the Navy. Lieut.
Rounds who is test pilot at the
Naval Airs Station, AnacoStia, and who
has had wide and varied experience
in all phases of aviation from engineer
ing to tactical flying, will preside over
the meeting. Lieut.. Rounds also will
conduct the classes during the coming
Winter and Spring, which will be
formed at the Wednesday night meeting
Subjects to Be Taught.
The subjects to be taught between
now and June are as follows: Aviation
history. hours; structure and rigging
10 hours; aerology, hours; theory of
fight, 6 hours; aviation engines, 10
hours; aerial navigation, Is hours:
practical flying theory. 6 hours; reg
ulations, 6 hours; scouting, 4 hours, and
radio, hours. Examinations will be
given in each subject.
CtIdnrfc takipu thoco nvoy11i1 fi0YNc
will be competing for selection for pri-
mary flight training to fill vacancies
in the local division of naval aviation.
In order to be so selected. however, they
must conform to the following qualifi-
cations: Be a citizen of the United
States or its inSular possessions; be
resident of the District of Columbia or
nearby sections; be between 10 and 81
years of age; be qualified physically for
enrolment and for fight training; be
college graduate, a senior attending
college, or possess the equivalent of that
education in order that he may COM
plete his primary and advanced train
ing during the same fiscal year; pass
examinations in the ground school
course with mark of rs or better in
each subject (2.5 corresponds to 62.5
per cent?, and be regular attendant
at the ground school lectures.
Primary Flight Tests to Follow.
After successfully completing the
ground school course students become
eligible for the primary flight training
provided at the Naval Reserve aviation
base, Great Lakes, Ill. This consists
of As days training duty, with pay
and allowances, in accordance with a
primary flight syllabus which provides
10 hours of instruction and 80 hours
of regulated solo flight in a primary
training type of plane.
Successful completion of this course
makes the student eligible for advanced
flight training at the Naval Air Sta
ton, Pensacola, Fla, the training CEN
ter for naval aviation. His oppor-
tunity to become commissioned officer
of the Navy, with pilots rating, is re-
ceived during this training.
Students contemplating entering the
ground school which will be organized
Wednesday will not be enlisted until
the preliminary ground training is
partially completed and it can be def
nitely ascertained who will, in all re-
spects, qualify for the fight training,
Lieut.. Rounds said.
Young men interested in the training
are required by Lieut.. Rounds to meet
at Corcoran Hall Wednesday night. or
send their names and addresses to him
at $3.50 Fifth street.