Twelve College Flying Club Planes Hover Over New York Skyscrapers for Unique Meeting Concluding Curtiss Tour

Flying in the first intercollegiate aviation club four event undertaken representatives from 12 college flying clubs including the Harvard Flying Club met in the air even New York Saturday at 3.30 o'clock.

Culminating a group of toars from various parts of the country, the planes all completed their fours Saturday and after the meeting over New York landed at Valley Stream. Long Island the landing field of the Curtiss Wright Corporation, the concern that was sponsoring the festivities in the evening there was a dinner in New York for the flyers at which time three representatives of the Curtiss organization made speeches concerning the future of aviation in college.

Curtiss Robins seating three persons and powered with Wright Whirlwind or Curtiss Challenger engines were used by all the clubs the exception of the Harvard Flying Club's plane which is a Travel Aire. A rough estimate reveals that the total distance covered by all the ploanes was ever ten thousand miles with the Minnesota and Kansas flyers having flown about 2300 miles each.

Thomas Fastland Jr. '33, Harvard Flying Club pilot gave a favorable report of the meeting on his return to Cambridge last evening.