Pupils

New students at flying schools of Roosevelt Field and Curtiss Airport, L. I. last fortnight included: John J. McNamara, Manhattan streetcar motorman; Abraham Walter Lafferty, onetime Congressman from Oregon; Buffalo Child Long Lance, Blackfoot Indian Chief, one-time cadet in the U. S. Military Academy, lately a cinemactor (The Silent Enemy, TIME, May 26). Another pupil, one for whom the instruction was exceedingly brief (after he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying), was Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36, inventor of the artificial horizon for airplanes, youngest son of the late great Elmer Ambrose Sperry (TIME, June 23), younger brother of the late famed Pilot Lawrence Sperry who was drowned in the English Channel (TIME, Dec. 24, 1923). The eldest Sperry son, Edward Goodman, is not a pilot, nor is the Sperry daughter, Mrs. Robert B. Lea.

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