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[[stamped]] FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE [[/stamped]] 

this flight he was determined to learn to fly, and when he finally obtained his parents' reluctant consent, enrolled for flight instruction with the Beatty Flying School at Hempstead, Long Island during the summer of 1912. His instructor was George Beatty, and on October 2, 1912 he obtained FAI Pilot License No. 176 flying a Wright Model B. His license tests were of particular note, during which he obtained an altitude of 1200 ft. This, in 1912, was a new Aero Club record.

Since Meyer was still in school his flying practice was somewhat limited for a time. In college, however, he took advantage of every opportunity to gain additional aviation experience. In the early spring of 1916 he joined a group of about twenty students to form the Yale Aero Corps. Arrangements were made for them to take an aviation ground school course at the State Armory, New Haven, Connecticut on the new DN-1 blimp build by the Connecticut Aircraft Company. At the time Meyer was one of the few in the group already holding an FAI license. A short time later he joined a group of Yale oarsmen to form an Aviation Corps, after having just been elected as Captain of the next year's Yale crew. In 1915 he had been a member of the All-American Crew.

That spring Meyer joined a group recruited at Yale for a summer training course in aviation, preparatory for examination for a commission in the Aerial Reserve Corps. They were sent to Governors Island, New York. This unit was headed by Capt. Phillip A. Carrol, with Filip A. Bjorkland as instructor, and was financed by a central

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