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PAGR SIXFENCING IS RECOMMENDED pAS AVOCATION FOR PILOTSCiA—rl Popp Proposes ThatPftciaf be Made an Extra-Currknlar Activity For StudeatM.Colonel Karl C. Popp, Director ofUm William and Mary Departmentof Aeronautic*, i* endeavoring to interest the flight students in the artof fencing.Commenting on it, the Colonel stated that “fencing i, the ideal sportfor the pilot. It has the coordinationof the use of the hand, fiot, and eye.is is reunited in flying an airplane.Everyone should have an avocation,and I strongly reclt;all student pilots in particular.•tColonel Popp, an arduous patron ofthe art of fencing, further remarkedthat it not only ha.-* the coordinationly employe I in flying a ship. Fenc-Vtiaiv«thHoiof»Atrof the three e.« entials narried in fly- ! xsing a plane, but it also has the val- **ue of exercise which is not thorough- Haing enables the pilot to use his right j ahand and both feet when lunging, a 1 1 coordination of the stick and rudder in flying; his left hand for balancing in fen ing is interpreted for the maintenance of flying speed, the regulation of the gun,” in flight. Fencing keeps one alert, clear headed, well hananced, and all the psychological and physiological requisites that a student a good uilot.f1At William ami Mary fencing is under the eXMrt Aiiiwrviin a.f Pvnf .u.•or Tucker and foremoStates•Idering to propose that next yearfiy. i si ,dents t’ike fen -ir g us an ex-activity. |
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Williamsburg Flat Hat
Williamsburg, Virginia, US
Tue, Nov 29, 1932
Page 6
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