Flying Track Meet

With things as they are, many a U. S. college student has recently taken up flying. Last week, when the sixth annual Intercollegiate Air Tournament was staged at Lock Haven, Pa., there were 71 entrants (including four girls) representing 25 colleges. It was the largest group ever assembled.

Intercollegiate air meets are nothing new. Thirty years ago, there were balloon meets among Eastern college students. Intercollegiate competition became national in 1935 when a dozen college clubs banded together to form the National Intercollegiate Flying Club, under the protective wing of the National Aeronautic Association. This year the N. I. F. C. boasts 46 college flying clubs, 1,000 individual members (more than double the membership a year ago).

At last week's tournament, run on a point basis like a track meet, the University of Michigan finished first with 26 points. Williams was second with 25, University of Detroit third with 24. Highest individual scorer was Williams' Bill Watson. He won all his club's points: first in spot-landing from 500 ft., second in bomb-dropping, third in spot-landing from 1,000 ft.

Stressing safety and skill rather than speed, the N. I. F. C. is proud of the fact that no one has yet been killed during an intercollegiate air meet.

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