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Show JCVIATIOU NOTES AVIATION TRAINING Several aspects of aviation will gain momentum shortly as a result of educational programs set by scores of major colleges and universities. uni-versities. The Board of Regents ol New York State has recommended a State Technical Institute of Aeronautics Aero-nautics at Syracuse, N. Y., to provide pro-vide two-year courses for high school graduates who wish to prepare pre-pare for junior technical positions in the aeronautical industry. . . . Cornell Cor-nell university has taken over Cur-tiss-Wright corporation's research laboratory and wind tunnel at Buffalo, Buf-falo, N .Y., for use in a co-operative research educational program . . . Illinois TJ. has set up three aviation avia-tion courses. . They cover flight training, aviation technician training train-ing and airplane mechanics. . . . University of Texas plans a new course in airport management in addition to courses already offered in air transportation and airline administration ad-ministration and training. . . . Northwestern university is planning the establishment of new Institute of Aeronautics lor the purpose of conducting research on the fundamental funda-mental problems ol the aviation industry, calling lor an ultimate endowment en-dowment of $10,000,000. ... A course in applied aerodynamics will be offered of-fered during the spring term .at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics Aero-nautics at New York university. . . . Iowa Wesleyan college has added an aviation department with 16 semester courses. A man who can walk only with the aid of two crutches recently re-cently received his private pilot's pi-lot's license. The new pilot is Casmer J. Sikorskl of Polonia, Wis., who is a victim of infantile infan-tile paralysis. The license was granted by civil aeronautics ad-ministration ad-ministration after Sikorskl had completed flight training at the Stevens Point, Wis., municipal airport. Sikorskl owns his own plane, equipped with hand controls con-trols for all operations. I l , - : , ENTERTAIN PATIENTS . . . Thirty-five young patients of the Adelaide Tichenor Orthopedic foundation at Long Beach, Calif., got their first plane ride and view i of their city from the air as guests aboard a Mainliner. TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS Providing school teachers with low-fare air travel fellowships on United States international airlines is the objective of a plan broached by J. Parker Van Zandt, director of aviation research at Brookings institution. A teacher awarded a fellowship could "hitchhike" his way abroad and spend six to eight weeks of study and travel in a number num-ber of foreign lands at a total cost of a few hundred dollars. Similar Sim-ilar fellowships could be accorded foreign teachers to visit the U. S. |