Tombstone epitaph., 1916-07-30
SeUen thousand feet aboVe Hyde Park, an American giri looked straig6f a6ead and saav "he roof of he sky" from one of Eng lands ne1beSf qvarpLanes
,arphnes

British military aero
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 plane, painted black, and especially designed for pur- suing Zeppelins at night.
 flew across London and. at
 height of 1000 feet
 looped the loop over Hyde fark, and in the New York Tribune Jane Anderson goes on to describe her experience:
 was permitted to make this flight. 10 start from one of Britain's finest herodromes and see, spread in q clear coiored panOrama one mile and n half below me, the houses and the streets or the greatest city in the world.
 Tn the great field from which I start cd the turf was broken by patches of piack mud and the grass was beaten down by heavy rain of the morning,
 but' on the wooden runway, with her wheels blocked and her black pianes silhouetted against the sky il blplane was waiting. She was beou,i. iui--'his machine. There was power Tn the sweep "f her wings: there was power in the shining blades of her pro. peller
 Tier two Lewis guns, of blue steel were mounted on galvanized brocke,s they were particularly businesslike- those guns.
 climbed aboard and was strapped IT, The observers seat. where I sat. was a wide seat, and the fusilare formed my arm rest. There was plenty or foot space. Captain X. who was my pilot, got into his seat behind me. To my right and above me n deaths head design had been painted In white on the wing
 We circ!ed the field. headed into the wind and were of. l mean. we diyed up into the sky.
 When We left the ground we left if IL was good climbing. It was good and stiff. The black nose of tbe hi. plane pointed straight to the sun. saw, swiftly, visions of a stalled mo- tor. of rapid backward slide.
 Below us the roofs of the hangars dropped away, and l saw, over the whirrinS propeller, the great curve of the Ihames-the wide, splendid sweep ot gray water. spanned by bridges.
 Where two streets met there was house with a red roof-a big house set little apart from a long row of cot tases. While I looked at this red roof inc color of it changed; from a clear yermiliOn it became mauve-one small clear square of mauve.
 looked again at the big house with the red roof. But 1t had merged with the line of little cottages; it no longer stood apart with strip of green sepa- rating it from its neighbors. had come up G0OO feet above a little yil- lage which is on the outskirts of London.
 saw, far below inc. the white roads. crossing and recrossing. and the bright green of the fields. But there were no longer any people; there were no longer trans and buses and motors.
 In this swift, upward climbing there was no sense of rising. Before me the blades of the propeller were flashing even in the gray light. l was filled with sense of security.
 l saw the roads, the broad, smooth roads of England, become white threads on clear background of green; from certain centers they reached out, spreading. then converg- ing anew.
 Then I found that I had come into bank of cloud. And, strangely enough, this white vapor increased, mysteriously, my sense of security. There was an extraordinary impress sion of solidity. of substance, after my journeying through the clear higher