Outlook Magazine - Fall 2024

A STOUT GLIDER

Designed by Aeronautics Club, 1931

esign has been part of UW-Stout’s DNA since Stout Manual Training School opened in 1891. The first students learned how to make

furniture and clothing, among other things. Forty years later, in 1931, students in the Aeronautics Club at Stout Institute designed and constructed a glider. They brought it out of the old Ray Hall to give it some air on the lawn. At right, slightly up the hill and to the north, is Bowman Hall. The club finished the job and succeeded in getting it into the air. The student in the cockpit has aviator goggles on his forehead. Unfortunately, test flights ended that summer when the pilot, Smith, crashed from an altitude of 100 feet, and the glider had to be rebuilt beginning in the fall, according to the Stoutonia. No fatalities were reported.

ON TARGET FOR MARKS & SPENCER

Designed by Dan Runge (’17)

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