Flying Club Unable to Join C.A.P. Says Army

Since the Army has rejected the offer of the Flying Club to assist in hunting submarines, patroling the coast, and convoying ships into Boston along with the Civil Air Patrol, the Club has been forced to abandon its activities for the duration, secretary H.W. Ford King '44, announced yesterday.

Last summer the Club was preparing to fly with the C.A.P., when a government order prohibiting ordinary civilian flying within 40 miles of the coast forced them to send their planes inland. Had the Club owned their own flying craft, they would probably have been able to register it with the civilian patrol organization. However, the aircraft company from which they rented their ships was obliged to call all their planes out of the vital areas.

Since further flying for the Club would be impractical, they have filed their records away until the end of the war.