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Wings Over Western: WKU and Aviation

Lynn E. Niedermeier, Western Kentucky University

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Adapted with permission from echo (www.wku.edu/echo), September 2003

Abstract

More than one hundred years after Kitty Hawk, aviation has become a part of the history of Western Kentucky University. Alumni have distinguished themselves in war and peacetime pursuits related to aviation, and an airplane plays a role in one of Western’s best-known ghost stories.

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Lynn E. Niedermeier. "Wings Over Western: WKU and Aviation" University Archives WKU History (2007).
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/11

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Western's Training School students with model airplanes made to train spotters, 1942