Yale Aero Club
Students at Yale formed the Yale Aero Club on 21 Mar. 1910. They pledged to start work constructing machines and decided to build gliders and work up to aeroplanes. Within a few days, they had chartered the old boathouse at Lake Whitney and were at work building their machines. Records of the Yale Aero Club at the Yale University Library include correspondence and financial records, 1911-1912, and a history of the club.
Initial officers were R. J. Carpenter, president; Maximillian Von Hoegen, vice president and/or treasurer, and Reuben Jeffrey, secretary. About 40 undergraduates joined the organization. The founding members were primarily students in the Sheffield Scientific School who had taken up the study of aeronautics and included several aviators. Of them, Von Hoegen, who had enrolled at Yale in the fall, had the longest experience in aeronautics, having been a member of the German Army Aerial Corps and was said to have already built and flown a crude aeroplane after he entered Yale.
Sources
- 1910 NYT 22 & 27 Mar. and 24 Apr.; 1910 Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar.; 1910 Aircraft, 1 May; WorldCat.org and WorldCat-OCLC; concerning Yale Aero Club Records, see http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ru.0899
| Organization names | Yale Aero Club |
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| Country | US |
| City | New Haven, Connecticut |
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| Scope | University |
| Started aero | 1910 |
| Ended aero | 1912 |
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- Address: Yale Univesity
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