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THE DAILY TAR HKKL FF.ATURI- SECTION
Students Will Try Aerial Acrobatics
In Lightweight Army Trainers Soon
Secondary Course
Will Be Offered
In Summer School
Almost any kinJ of aerial nip-up? may
be expected in the Chapel Hill sky this
summer as some of Carolina's CAA stu
dents climb out of their flying diaper
and start secondary training in the more
versatile light army trainer.
They have been lazily landing, tak
ing off, and buzzing around over the
campus in the slow, relatively fool-proof
Piper Cubs in which they took their pri
marv training. They have been ducking
hastily into the held at the slightest sign
of rain, or when the wind velocity top
ped 18 miles per.
Weighing 900 pounds, the Cubs do
not demand the rlying ability that the
3,500-pound trainers call for nor do
they allow flying ability to be used in as
many kinds of stunt or in a- adverse
weather conditions.
Similar Coiksks
These extra acrobatics and the added
weight of the plane are the chief differ
ences between the primary and second
ary courses. In both programs about the
same number of hours of instruction are
offered and landings, take-offs, maneu
vers and cro-s-country flights account for
about the same proportion of flying time.
The advanced course, like the pri
marv one, begins with about eight hours
of dual instruction, mostly in landings
and take-offs after which the student
solos with nearly the same thrill as the
fir-t one.
The differences- are reflected in the
tvpe of licenses awarded. Graduates of
the primary course are given "1 land"
ratings which entitle them to fly any ship
weighing less than 1,300 pounds with
a fuM load of non-commercial passen
gers one person.
Advanced graduates get "2 s" ratings
which show that they can be trusted in
heavier planes. "One land" pilots may
fly 2 s ships solo, but not with passengers.
When they finish the course, advanced
students will have about the same amount
of flying instruction that they would get
in the first three to five months in the
army air corps and will really have earn
ed their wings.
FiNhiiH) Pilots
They might almost go so far as to
call themselves "finished pilots" if the
time were the early 1920's instead of
the '40's. But science and the govern
ment have extended the things that a
pilot may learn about the airplane and
there are still other ratings.
At the end of the advanced course, a
student pilot will have a total of from
SO to 100 hours of flying time in his
log book. When this has grown to total
200 hours he may apply for a commercial
license and if he can pass the flight test
he will be allowed to fly any type of
land plane for money.
He then can get an instrument rating
for blind flying which will allow him
to climb into any cloud he wants and
with a little experience with seaplanes,
he may fly any type of ship under any
weather condition.
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Puzzled? Here's
Your Solution
To the c-ves, the Horace Williams air
port is a broad expanse of just plain
ground a thin spread of grass, a pud
dle or two, some mud around the edges.
On the sides are great cavities of clay
and mud and hole-dotted areas which
used to be forests. One or two unpainted
former homes are still standing against
the wind.
It's dirncuk to get in the grey matter
or in print a clear conception of just what
is going on and what's going to happen.
Here's the mathematicians' solution
a collection of vital statistics:
The original field is about 50 acres of
turf, with one "long" runway of 2,000
feet and a shorter one of 1,800 feet.
This field will be expanded about ten
times on a 607-acre tract, providing two
"long" runways of 4,500 feet and a
shorter one of 4,000 leet.
The center area where these three run
wavs converge will be larger than the ori
ginal field. The 5 50 additional acre
were obtained partly by state funds and
partly from a gift by Dr. Henry Horace
Williams, late philosophy professor.
The expansion will make the Uni
versitv's airport among the largest in the
state with runways among the longest
in the world.
A 120-man WPA crew already has
begun work and will finish about Sep
tember 1. The bill will be $210,000.
Five new hangars will be built and
space left for many more. Secondary
training in light army planes probably
will begin this summer.
Fv next year more than 400 pilots a
vear will be a normal load for the air
port. This year less than 100 will com
plete primary training.
Call It Horace
Williams Airport
Usually called "the airport" by stu
dents and "the University of North
Carolina airport" by newspapers, the
rapidly-expanding airfield about two
miles northwest of Chapel Hill has been
named after one of Carolina's greatest
teachers and personalities Dr. Henry
Horace Williams.
For 50 years before his death last De
cember Dr. Williams taught and lived
his philosophy of spirit and freedom.
Last summer, when the University be
gan launching its aerial expansion pro
gram, he volunteered about 400 acres
of land, a major factor in making the
program possible.
Now, with the effects of his teachings
still living in men throughout the state,
the airport will be developed into the
nation's largest college field, a concrete
memorial to a philosopher.
Dr. Williams at his death was, in
point of service, the oldest member of
the faculty. At that time he left the
University his entire estate as an endow
ment for fellowships in philosophy.
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LIGHT ARMY TRAIXERS like these may soon circle aboz-e the University
and Chaf-el Hill. Considerably more difficult to fly, they can do cuts and capers
and endure weather conditions completely impossible for the light Piper Cu'k now
being used.
The picture above was taken at Randolph Field, Texas, where hundreds of ex-CAA
students max soon get wings in the Army Air Corp.
EVE'S GIRLS have little trouble learning to fly in the light, easy-to-h-andle CAA
training planes at the University's Horace Williams airport. Here the first two coeds
to study flying at Carolina, are pictured getting ready for a practice spin. They com
pleted their course last year and only recentlx the airfort announced that another
coed, Virginia Broome, has finished this year.
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