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Love at First Flight
By Charles Spalding
and Otis Carney
CHAPTER .1V
Barred ftvoin the Navy's V-7 pro -
grain because he lacked two yeats of
college math, Lester Dowd tries to
enlist in the Coast Guard but is
turned down beeause of a "facial
sgtunt" The doctor refuses. even to
examine him. Commander Whitman,
an old friend of the family, en-
deavors to get 'a waiver for Lester
so he can join V-7, but after weeks
of waiting Lester learns they still
insist on two years of college math.
He is successful in joining the V-5
Naval Aviatibn and is sent to Ana -
costa Naval Base. Six weary weeks
of preliminary ground school pass..
by ' and lie is filially driven to a
flying field,'
Before the war Hyde Field had
been operated by a pioneer avia-
tar known in flying circles as Al
Manning. He called. his field Al's
Airport • and attracted clients by
doing breath -taking aerial Stunts
on Sunday and when teaching his
magic to young aspirants during
the week. The populace was be-
coming increasingly, air -minded,
and. Al left a pretty good thing
when the Navy evicted him,
I dwelt for a' minute ort the ro-
mance involved. Manning spanned
the period between thelast war and
this. After World war I he re-
turned and eked out a "living as a
barnstormer; aisking his nook to
prove that ay.ation was really here
to stay. The field was a laboratory
m which the experiment developed
slowly frons year to year, and now
that Al had passed along, myself
and countless ethers stood by to
carry on. It 'was a grand heritage.
Swaying a little in this emotional
gust. I took time to inock the with-
ered sages of my school days - who
shook their Iearued pates and
preached that adventure had died
in the glorious long ago. They were
sorry about this, but told us frankly
that our generation was doomed to
find the world in its senility and
our only consolation was that it,
would get worse and worse.
I hadn't noticed much improve-
ment myself until this moment.
The sight of pieties, lined in even
rows, speeded the pulse. The sun
had risen higher and shone on the
rich green woods: across' the way"
The roar of the. planes was a pow- little toe tight, and from his being
' like lotus when David lliunk,: a dent."
stoop -shouldered, slow -speaking lad He looked sway from his chum
from the West "Virginia mug amb- and ,observed me coolly. Since he
led np, his hands in his, pockets. I made no effort to 'speak,' I found
had come to know hitn well. He was, myself stuck 'to • a gum -like mono -
from point cif,serviee, two weeks any lagtue that went on and on like a
senior, and since sleep acid -a 'way of repeating clecirnal.
"You're my instructor. I •hope I.
scan learn, That is, if I can't learn
from 'you, what hope is there?"
He graciously relieved one of
speech.
"When I •ain speaking to another,
you will not interrupt me. Is that
clear?" He laid equal ,stress an
each syllable.
Something died inside me. Gone
was. the informality that character-
ized . Drake's ship.. This was going
to be a rancid relationship, con.
ducted along specific lines.
"Oh, • excuse me." I was taken
aback.
"Excuse me ,what?" he demand-
ed in a frosty fashion.
"Excuse me , . excuse me." I
was somewhat rattled, but that
seemed to cover it.
"Exeuse me, sir . . . sir .
SIR! ! !" Ile seemed to betalking
from a great distance.
"Excuse me, Air, sir, sir"—
I showed how eager I was 'to learn.
volunteand into this outfit,' and if "T see, Dowd, that you have not
ah Iistened to much more of that been long in the military swim,"
he observed, resorting to pretty
imagery.
Recalling the last six weeks I
was compelled to admit I had only
life that learned ,radically ' toward
leisure were his chief concerns, he
had " been forced to discover low
ways of , by-passing Naval routine.
He gladly passedthese secrets on to
a newcomer whose philosophy was
in many respects, in_ harmony with
his own.
"Dowd; 0. IC., son" he drawled.
'Ain see you have ole Glossup for an
instructor,"
"What sort of a fellow is he?" I
asked still suffering from visions
of Drakeand the new Elizabethan
era that had sprung up underfoot.
"He's .a nawthun. boy," he com-
mented as if it had important bear-
ing on a thesis of his, "and he's
full of slime and vinegar."
"He 'sounds pretty bad." Even
adventurers fret now and again.
"Ah badhim first," Munk elab-
orated. "and that ole roach made
roe so orad ah tol;t Captain Miller
to give me a new instruetah, Ah
ole boy ah wuzz goin' to voluntoah
out,"
In spite of his mild 'southern
ways, Munk was r:garded as some-
thing of at.tera'or. He had the re- gust •
got my clothes off.
fresbing habit of repost'ng his su-
periors to their superiors and was Fine talk to a gallant about to
held in an admiral's awe by many explore the new frontier, I looked
of the junior officers. outside to see if the morning still
"He's over talkin' to some en- retained its glow and was not dis-
sign"—Mtmk jerked his head in the appointed. My spirits rose a few
direction. "Ah'd go over and se- degrees.
quaint maltself." he advised, pre- "No, sir," I answered. 'Previous -
paring to lie down. ly we passed the summer in Dark
"That's a good idea," :I started Harbor."
off. A great man could rise above a
Say, one son," Munk called after handicap - like Mr" Glossup, He
me, "you don't get seasick, do could make things difficult for my
your" corporeal being with his insistence
"I don't brow, What's that got
to do with it?"
"Just askin'," he murmured, clos-
ing his eyes. tard plaster attached.
I approached Mr. Glossup from
behind, circled to the side, noticed "Meet me in the 'plane," be com-
itis stiff bearing, his ensign's ranic, minded, adding, "and button your
shirt pocket."
on .official deportment, but my soul
soared, unfettered, beyond his,
heavy grasp: ''It was still a glori-
ous adventure, albeit with a mus
and an expression of perpetual dis-
comfort on his largeplain face.
His clothes were neat, perhaps a
I walked s'owly to the parachute
loft, trying to release my soul like
a carrier pigeon from a. prison
er'ful roar. There' was a youthful radiated the dannp, forbidding chill tower, but it was badly trained or
underfed, and it wouldn't budge.
•"Here, Mack," said the seaman
in charge, handing me a parachute,
"bring it back if it don't work," and
so saying he collapsed with laughter.
His assistant, a finer min in every
respect, reproaohecl hint,
"Joe, ya said that fifteen times
unsteady and it wasn't no good the
first. Now, will ya shut your big
face, Ya underminin' morale." If
Drake had known the sante bach-
nage on the wharves when he!
walked among the enlisted men.
It was the rough local color that
formed a background for the life
in action.
surging in the bright morning, and of the "real Navy man." In my
theme was adventure enough for any best manner that had acquired even
young man who pulled goggles over by • now only . mild naval overtones,
his eyes and dared climb into the I introduced myself.
sky" "Pardon me, Mr. Glossup. My
I wasgulping clown satisfaction name is Dowd, I am your new stu-
British Offnsive
1
ANADIAN NATIEIdAL AI =wAtS
TIME TABLE
Trains will arrive at and depart
•
from Clinton as follows:'
Toronto and Goberricb. Division
Going East, depart .. 6.48 a.m.
Going East, depart 3:08 p.m
Going West, depart .: ; ., , 12,04 p.m.
Going West, depart 11.10 p.m..
London and Clinton Division
Coming North, arrive . 11,20r'a.m a
Going South, leave ,a3.10 p.m.,
hpen in France
On the way down the line tothe
plane, a bloated, yellow -colored ma-
chine known as the N3N, that didn't
loop as if .it could fly if it had to,
the friendly Glossup's voice caught
up with tie. "You don't wear the
parachute in that fashion."
It was bangingagainst the back
of my knees, I• could : either set it
on my head like a Bali maiden or
hoist it up wider an atm. I chose
the conservative 'coarse • and all was
Peace.
• "This is an . indoctrination flight,"
said Mr. Glossup. It was no. -adven-
ture for hien.' "I'll do all the flying.
You watch and try to catch the feel
of it."
I climbed 'into the back cockpit
and fastened the safety belt. I
was about to By. Leonardo had
dreamed of, this, Daedalus' and
Icarus, and no melting wax to worry
you, lblr. Glossup looked carefully
(under_ the wings, tugged at the
struts, examined the tail assembly,
and then leered, "Of course, you'd
go up without seeing - ii it was ,all
Following a 'terrific artillery bar- I anion for one of the biggest battles together:"
rage. British troops lunched a new I ever fought in Europe... Caen itself Apparently, the wax•„ problem had
offensive in the Tilly -Caen sector on' was occupied ly British and Cana not yet been completely solved.
June 25. A bridge -head 2 miles wiile dian troops. on Joly 9th;. He ran the motot• up, • ehecked
was established over they River Odon,I Piettcre Shows: --A •Sherman tank the magnetos; and .signaled for 'the
and soon a 'stream `of tanks, ,guns and passing/ across rough country during inaehanics to pull away the chocks.
infantry was going across int prepar-,the tank battle'in the Caen seeter, We taxied evenly out to the sono -way,
hesitated 'a ` moment, and, then sped
down the gravel strip, cleared a red
silo, and mounted into the sky, des-
cribing a gentle, - graceful bank to.
the left. The wind pounded piny face
and the noise of the motor tempor-
arily obliterated the disagreeable
influence that was Gloseup. I was
curiously alone/ The plane climbed
slowly to three thousand feet and
leveled off, Below, the manchild
scurried about securely fastened to
his natural habitat. He piled his
crops into minute, evenly spaced
piles, fmn•owed and plowed' his tidy
well defined'. squares of land, and
seemed, from three thousand feet,
to live a drab uneventful life.
As my ,exhilaration wore ba and
we continued to fly smoothly around
t�t@ couittr'yside, 1; crossed ni,v %pn1
anci relaxed. This was morn theft 1
'the carefree boyish double -dare of
a Drake. It was more than the
embodiment of a classical Myth. It
was healthy, . Hate • I. aril waiing
about in another dimension enjoy-
ing the invigorating sun -stare and
lapping up unlimited quantities of
fresh, rarefied atmosphere. The
"re
were hordes of people less fortunate,
chained to stuffy offices, claimed for
a. lifetime by factories, the best .of
them deeaving in stiff white collars.
I shuddered to think how narrowly I
escaped .rotting in the industrial
clutch. Sooner or later I should have
had to board the eight o'clock for a
cell'on La Salle Street. Nevermore
quoth the birdman. A flyer's life
for roe.'"
Suddenly the plane bolted upright
and lurched evilly onto; its side.
The boi•izon stood on end and then
disappeared. I had a spasm of
fright such as you might expect
if Dracula climbed 4nto a hot bath
with you, The restive thoughts of
a moment ago scattered like scraps
of paper -beside an onrushing train.
Viciously the plane snapped right
side up again.
"'That was a snap -roll to the
right." .called Mr. Glossup over `the
gosport which made possible a ones
�
way .conversation while in flight.
I hung tightly to the sides, sus-
pecting that when there is a snap -
roll to the right there too. often ie.
a snap -roll to the left. Immediately
the plane heaved sickly and the
same maneuver was repeated on
the other side,
"Did you notice that you can do
a snap -roll to either side?" he
asked.
I nodded in assertion. It was as
obscure as bear tracks in new -fallen
snow. Long swells of swooning sen-
sation rippled in my stomach. Some-
thing I had for breakfast, nothing
more. I opened my collar button,
ran toy, band around my neck, and
waited tensely for the bottom of the
plane to fall out.
For his next selection, .Mr. Glos-
sup pulled the throttle back, pulled
the nose up higher and higher and
higher until the plane stalled, and
then fell spinning toward the moth-
er planet.. It was like falling down
an elevator shaft in a top. The
ground swirled around, revolving
about a whirling- cow. On each
turn I tried to follow the beast out
of the field of vision, It looked hide-
ous with branches growing out of
its side and a red brick chimney
between its ears, I closed my eyes.
Everything seemed a reddish brown
with a long tail swinging front it.
Mr. Glossup returned to level
flight.
"That was a )normal spin," he
said, unfolding his lore.
There was nothing normal about
it, Prespiratlon ran down nay face.
I lifted my goggles and rubbed my
eyes. Inside me there was`much
unsettled activity. I swallowed
several tines to restore order. An
impotent rage welled up in me and
focused itself on Glossup. Why
couldn't he fly around quietly and
smoothly and have . a nice routine
adventure, instead of going ;berserk
in the void? •
We had drifted closer toward
Washington during all this horse-
play. Smoke from the factories
strefshecl lazily upward. odd I have
never , thought of getting a . defense
job in some vital industry. The work
is steady, even if the air is bad, but
fresh air isn't everything. Too muck
of it is bad for you. One out of two
Indians is a physical wreck.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
THURS., DEC. 7th, 1944
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Allied Expeditionary Air Force
From dawn to dusk -pilots of convoy of German Panther Tanks
Roovet-carrying Typhoons and ,l'.igh- is seen en route for the battle area.
ter -bombers ate maintaining ade-
vastating onslaught against the
enemy in support of the Allied
armies in Normandy, Refuelling and
rearming oil airstrips in France.
Allied planes are smashing at the
flow of enemy reinforcements to the
North. In this artist's impression a
Two of the tanks have plunged off
the roads into fields in a vain'at-
tempt to escape, and are being at-
tacked by a Rocket -firing Typhoon.
Overhead other planes of the -,Squa-
dron are manoeuvring into position
for the attack.
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