Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-07-18

around. But I was hoping that he
do it.
He smiled and said, Maybe
you would rather loop or INNER
man turn or something like that.
If remember right l think I
just sort of tried to grin. Would
not think you could call it a
smile.
He finally decided that there
was not much to an Immelman,
and that would like that. don't
know just how to explain this
stunt but it is some sensation.
think there is more of a throb to
in 1T than most any of the rest of
them.
You start to dive to gain speed
like starting loop and then you
go from there into the first half
of loop. That is until you get
upside down. Then instead of go
ing right on over you turn around
and come back out heading in the
same direction you came from.
Guess | was kind of foolish, as
| tried to keep track of the ground
and listen, when you feel your
self slide out of the seat and look
what seems right straight up and
see the ground you wonder just
how you are going to come out of
it but you do and with some speed
too. We did two or three right
out of one into the other. Then he
leveled up and asked me how
liked it? | am sure | lied then and
said fine, but | think from the ex-
preston on my face, if | had
one, that he knew did not feel
exactly right.
He then informed me that we
had considerable altitude to kill,
and says, Let's stall once and
then spin and spiral and side slip
etc. | lost track of everything af-
ter that as to direction and the
was doing a sort of a
st. Wits flip flop and hand spring,
it seemed to me.
What they call stall is sure
f retty stunt. He headed the ma
Chine up until the propeller won't
lift it any more. 1t then stops and
hangs there and quivers for a
short while and starts to flli
tail first toward the ground. The
engine being i'm front and heavy,
The outfit suddenly changes ends.
Starts nose first toward old Mo-
Their earth and then it is leveled
up and stops the said fall. But
coming out OF stall is a lovely
way to get into a tail spin and
this is what had neN Nose of
going straight toward
the ground and spinning around
on the axis of the fusilage or the
body. Some sensation. This Ger
talnly seems. to be a delightful
way to kill altitude as they call
it. Would take too long to try to
explain side Slips and skids now,
but VIC still did them getting into
the field. did not feelsVery robust
when | got untangled from said
and walked away and
that was just what / did. When I
had time to sit down and think
decided was not going to like it
at all and that it was going to be
work more than any pleasure 1
would get out of it.
1t seems that the rest of the in
did not do these stunts
the first day, but they could very
plainly see me getting mine.
But times have certainly
changed since then. surely do
enjoy it now. OF course am do
ing nothing but straight flying.
take offs and landings. And 7
have not done what they call solo
yet. cTake her up all alone.) And
| am in no particular hurry. The
way | understand it, the more fly
ing you get with good instructor
The better fixed you are to solo.
| like it fine and believe | will
like it better when l am able to
handle a ship better. II is quite
sensation to sit there and hear
good motor purr and see ship
respond to the controls.
Nearly all of our bunch seems
10 feel about the same way about
il and think there will be some
good filters turned out of here and
hope will be one of them.
Their motto here is tackled
very prominently on the bulletin
BOARD.
Fear is the deadliest foe to
Keep your nerve screwed up.
Flying is not nearly as danger
'us. as il used to be. | know of
nothing that has advanced so ra-
oidly as aviation in the last few
ears.
Say Pokey, l have written SO
much more than l intended and it