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Show Young Women Get Air-Wisdom ' " P - i s 4 i s i ' ? t U fll TUSCALOOSA, ALA The young women in the upper picture are preparing to join the Air Age They are students of the Alabama Institute In-stitute of Aeronautics, a resident school for young women who wish , to fly. These women are taking such courses as. Aircraft. Meterology, Flight, Civil Air Regulations, Instruments, Parachutes and General Service of Aircraft, Radio. Navigation and Aircraft Engines. Train-ine Train-ine is under the direction of Walter P Thorpe, Vice-President and Superintendent, a leader in aviation education for 18 years. Flight and ground school training are on the same colorful campus, (lower photo) where for the past five years, U. S. Army Air Force Cadet, Royal Air Force Cadet. Free French Cadet, Civil and War Training Service has been given. Over one-quarter of a million hours of flying time has been registered on the A. I. A. Hargrove Van De-Graaff De-Graaff Field. Oliver L. Parks, President of Parks Air College in East ' St, Louis and of the A. I. A., announced the opening of the school. This step was taken to satisfy an increasing need for well-organized flight and ground school courses for young women. |