ICARUS VINDICATED

While the journalistic welkin rings with the praise of long-distance flyers, the rank and file of aviation moves slowly along. Several years ago at Harvard a Flying Club, with no stronger interest among its members than a common faith in the future of flying, languished and died. Now with a plane of its own to operate the club has a year of definite achievement to its credit.

Ten thousand miles travelled in the air, two hundred and fifteen passengers carried, without an accident of any kind, do more than refute the dire predictions of those who foresaw a succession of funerals in the path of the student aviators. It points to a future of invaluable training and experience; it sets an example which may have worthy and far-reaching consequences. The furore created by a General Mitchell dies down, leaving aviation in the United States apparently where it was before; the interest of undergraduate airmen continues and produces results.