AERO CLUB RECEIVES NEW ENGINE

Early this week the new Curtis OXX-6 engine for the seaplane owned by the Aero Club will be installed. For about two weeks the plane has not been in commission, as a connecting rod broke while flying over Lynn harbor and carried away part of the crankcase. The new engine arrives in time to allow the club to complete the training for a pilot's license, of the fortunate one of its members who was selected this spring.

Next year the club hopes to be able to purchase another plane from the Navy and to fit it with landing gear, so that it will have a plane for use on land as well as one for use on the sea around Marble-head.

As several members of the club hold commissions in the Naval Reserve, they have been requested to go into the service again for a short period this summer. The Navy Department has made it possible for all reserve men to serve for one or two months each summer under full pay, so as to keep the men in touch with the changing methods and technique of the flying service.