Welcome to In Da Club, where Noice parties like it’s your birthday and spotlights one of Harvard’s more obscure student groups on the way. This week’s lucky organization is the Harvard Aviation Club.

The website gives us a detailed look at the club’s storied past - founded in 1909, the Harvard Aviation Club has zipped through the decades in various incarnations until its most recent one in 2007, under the visionary leadership of President Emanuel “The Flight Manual” Beica and VP Richard “Extreme Jet Thrust” Kwant. (We kid you not.) While membership may not come with monthly drinks and a snazzy e-mail address or a Canada pride T-shirt like other similarly named clubs, Harvard Aviation Club will provide you with the resources you need to learn to fly and become a licensed pilot…assuming you have $7000-$8000 lying around and time to study the 700 questions that could be on the FAA Written Exam…

If you’re slightly less hardcore, you may want to keep an eye out for Aviation Club events. Unfortunately, the website doesn’t list any upcoming ones, but the promise lingers in the air – a particularly awesome event in 2007 took students on rides through the Boston skyline in a bright yellow helicopter. (Keep us posted, Webmaster “The Extremely Speedy Dart”!)

But there is a silver lining – chances to procrastinate! (Because we need more.) The Links section of the Aviation Club’s website takes us to Flightlevel350.com, which boasts page after page of aviation videos, ranging from snooze-inducing to downright crazy.  The most popular video of the last 30 days is the thrilling “Virgin 744 Makes a very elegant arrival at London Gatwick on a sunny morning” – check out the Extreme Situations section for more rousing time-wasters.

(Image sources here and here.)