Budding Aviators

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 12, 4 October 1929, Page 10

Budding Aviators

"THE inauguration of any real live juvenile movement is always to be commended, and certainly the recent formation of a Boys’ Aero Club in Australia falls under this category. This club, which at present has an active membership of over a thousand, is conducted chiefly by the aid of lectures delivered from 2BL, Sydney. The novice members are called Kiwis, and they occupy their spare time by making models and studying aviation. As they become increasingly proficient, they are graduated into higher classes, and are then known as Cadets. ‘To progress in this way it is necessary for them to build working models of kites, balloons, aeroplanes, and gliders, all of which must fly a specified distance within a given time. It has been found that the application the schoolboy will not take to his mathematics, "he lavishes on his hobby, and boys generally recognised as dull in school, will work out definite equations when associated with aeronautics, Every possible encouragement is given to this club by the Australian Broadcasting Company, and, after all, wireless and aviation are so closely connected that this assistance seems only fitting. A New Zealand Club, conducted along similar lines, would no doubt prove as great a success, especially in view of the developments to: wards aviation at present taking place in this country.