North Adams Aero Club
The North Adams Aero Club' was formally organized 9 Mar. 1908. It began as a balloon club with the intent of promoting the spirit of ballooning by the holding of many contests. The club was to purchase the balloon Stevens 21 and refit and christen it as North Adams No. 1 The North Adams Aero Club was one of the first five aero clubs in the U.S. to affiliate with the ACA (it appears to have been the fourth to affiliate).
Initial officers were Col. Frank S. Richardson, president; N. H. Arnold, secretary; and A. W. Chippendale, treasurer. The Aero Club of North Adams entered a balloon in the August 1910 Harvard-Boston Meet.
One if its first events was the christening flight of a balloon called the Conquerer, owned and piloted by A. Holland Forbes of New York, on 2 May 1908. N. H. Arnold accompanied Forbes and described the event in an article about the NAAC, mentioning that an "immense throng broke through the fence and invaded the enclosure" and that subsequently the NAAC would restrict access more carefully.[1]
[does not appear in ACA annuals after 1909, need to research whether it died?]
Affiliated with ACA in 1909 or earlier.
Publications referring to North Adams Aero Club
- Publication 138, 1908, Aero Club of North Adams (Simple title: Aero Club of North Adams, Journal: Aeronautics)
- Publication 9254, 1908, North Adams Aero Club (Simple title: North Adams Aero Club, Journal: Aeronautics)
- Arnold, 1908, A balloon christening (Simple title: A balloon christening, Journal: American Aeronaut)
- Arnold, 1908, The present ballooning center (Simple title: The present ballooning center, Journal: American Aeronaut)
Sources
- 1908 Boston Daily Globe, 10 March; 1908 Hartford Courant, 10 Mar.; 1908 NYT, 10 Apr.; 1908 WSJ, 28 Nov.; 1909 Jane's All the World's Aircraft 251; 1910 BDG, 13, 14, & 16 Aug.; 1 American Aeronaut 256 (June 1908); ACA annual (1909)
| Organization names | North Adams Aero Club |
|---|---|
| Entity type | club |
| Country | US |
| City | North Adams, Massachusetts |
| Affiliated with | ACA |
| Scope | Local |
| Started aero | 1908 |
| Ended aero | |
| Keywords | Conquerer |
| Key people | Frank S. Richardson, N. H. Arnold, A. W. Chippendale, A. Holland Forbes |
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