The Ordway new era., 1916-07-21
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Seven thousand feet above
Hvde Park. an American
qirl looked straight ahead
and sau "he roof of the
sky" from one of Eng
lands ne1Dest zvarplanes

~ y II British military aero.
N III plane, painted black. and
especially designed for pur-
N suing Zeppelins at night. |
flew across London and. at
"A n height of 1000 feet
looped the loop over Hyde
Park, 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
|acrodromcs and see. spread In Il clear
|colorcd panorama one mile and n half
below me. the houses and the streets
|of the greatest city In the world.
4 In the great field from which | start
|td the turf was broken by patches of
|bIack 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
planes silhouettcd against the sky. n
|bip'ane was waiting. She was beuutl.
|lui-ihis machine. There was power
|ih The sweep of her wings; there wns
power IN the shining bladcs of her pro.
|pelIcr.
Her two Lewis guns. Of blue steel,
were mounted on galvanized brackets.
|'hey were particularly businessIike-
those guns.
climbed aboard and was strained
|ln' The observers seat. where I s,t
|"as WIDE seat. and the fusilage
|ioFmeh my arm rest. There was
|P'eh'y OF root space. Captain Y, who
|Was my pilot. got into his seat behind
me- TO my right and above me n
|"eath head design had been painted
IN white on the wing.
We circled the field. headed ,nto
me wind and were off. mean, we
|d''ed up into the sky.
"hcn we left the ground we left II.
|H was good climbing. 1t was good
|ahd sim. The black nose of the bi.
pane pointed straight to the sun.
|s""' swiftly, visions of stalled mo-
|For, of a rapid backward slide.
Below us the roofs of the huncars
|oropp'd away, and saw. over the
|N"'rrlhs propeller, the great curve of
|ne lha'hes-the wide. splendid sweep
IT, gray water. spanned by bridges.
"h"re two streets met there was
|"'uSe with red rOof--n big house set
"''le apart from long row of cot
|ases' While l looked at this red roof
me color of it changed; from clear
FeFhlliloD 1t became mnuve-one small
Ic'ear square OF mauve.
iooked again at the big house with
ne red roof. But it hnd merged with
|"e me OF little cottages; 1t no longer
|''ood apart with strip of green sepa-
P"uhs 1t. from its neighbors. l had
'"e up 5000 feet above Il little vii
fase which is on the outskirts of
London.
saw, far below me. the white roads,
''>sihg ana recrossing. and the bright
pen OF the fields. But there we're
'ohG"r any people; there were no
'"ser trans and buses and motors.
III ms swift, upward climbing there
Was no sense of rising. Before me the
,aues of the propeller were flushing
wen IN the gray light. ! was filed
C'.h sense of security.
sa" the roads, the broad. smooth
aus or England. become white
"e"ds on clear background of
sn' from certain centers they
aened out spreading, then converg-
hs anew.
ineh l found that had come into
"'hk of cloud. And. strangely
nus''' this white vapOr increased.
my sense Of security.
"s'e was an extraordinary impress
vi solidity. of substance. after my
yihg through the clear higher
watched. on the aluminium rim