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IJoutk lakQ5 to Wina5 Dedicated fo the Air-minded Youth of Today. An official National Aeronautical Association film produced by Bray Pictures Corporation with the cooperation of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania. N OUTSTANDING achievemenf, this, (\ n educational motion pictures! A film D notable teaching quality, yet teeming ^'h sheer entertainment values— a motion tture that fascinates, absorbs, and irre- itibly Instructs at the same time. ""Youth Takes to Wings" offers, in one )3rt hour, an excellent demonstration of h foundation principles of aero-dynamics, p their translation into the finished prod- s', the modern airplane. By expert and jginal techniques, the film clarifies the btle actualities of bird flight, unseen and J<nown until the motion picture could bring S revelation, and the transitional adapta- *ns and modifications required for me- lanclal flight by man. It presents, visibly jd vividly, the phenomena of air flow, ■■ce, mass, density, thermals—the basic Ws of flight—by means and methods of jh ingenuity yet thrilling simplicity. Then, >m principles to practice! Full demonstra- in of gliders and helicopters In action, adel airplanes of deft designs, showing ried skills and precision workmanship of 'ys, fly across the screen. Then on to the lendid embodiment of all these established vs and constructional procedures in the tual monsters of the airways. Here is a potent instrument for our na- inal education in schools, theaters and mmunlty halls. It appeals to any audience ung or old, amateur or professional, scho- .tic or theatrical. It not merely deserves tion-wide recognition and use, It Is getting them. The Aviation Education Research Project, established under the C. A. A. in cooperation with the United States Office of Education, headed by three Columbia University professors, is using this film In all its club meetings. The Project is preparing new courses In Junior Aviation for national school use—from the Fifth Grade up!—to correlate widely with curricular courses in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Geography, English, Fine Arts, Social Sciences, even with hfealth Education. The film will integrate with them all. The present surge of interest in aviation demands such film material, not only for the critical emergency of war but for the peace years to follow. The tremendous develop- ment of the automobile in the past genera- tion will inevitably be paralleled, if not sur- passed, by the development of the airplane In the present generation. It is the subject of our day par excellence. The youth of today vitally needs to know Its aviation. Such a film as "Youth Takes to Wings," shown to the millions, will immeasurably promote knowledge and understanding, stimulate to further study and achievement, and aid mightily in bringlnq about that ultimate, greatly-to-be-desired culr'ination of the na- tional effort—America's final world-mastery of the air. The film is available in 16 mm sound, from Bray Pictures Corporation, 729 Seventh Avenue, New York City, and Ideal Pictures Corporation, 28 E. Eighth Street, Chicago.