Flying Club Will Begin Instruction

Fourteen members of the Harvard Flying Club will begin a ground training course this Wednesday evening, according to James M. Revie '60, club president. The instructor will be Lt. Peter N. O'Connor, assistant professor of Air Science.

"We're giving this course in conjunction with a flight training program for three of our Air Force ROTC students," said O'Connor last night. "There will be no charge to members of the Flying Club."

"I plan to cover civil air regulations, meteorology, navigation, flight safety, and general servicing," he added. The course will meet three nights a month through April, providing about 38 hours of instruction.

Club Reactivated

Formed in 1904, the Flying Club has been inactive in recent years because it had no airplane. But last year Robert A. Bryan, a student at the Divinity School, offered the club the use of his two-seater. Members pay the insurance on Bryan's plane, and buy their own fuel.

George F. Baker '61, vice-president of the club, has his pilot's license, and gives free flight instruction to other members.

In 1955, when the club was last active, members made trips to Vassar for break-fast--flying time is 1.5 hours. Weekend skiing trips to New Hampshire were also popular.

The Flying Club is unofficially supported by the Harvard Aviation Foundation, an incorporated, non-profit group of College graduates now in the aviation industry.