Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-08
ARIZONA AERIAL EXPERT ABROAD
 MAKES GOOD
ERNEST LOVE, OF PRES corr, IN FINAL s T A c E TO GET IN ACTIO N; RITES INTERESTING LETTER FROM FRANCE.
(From Saturdays Daily)

Ernest Love, popularly known in
 this city, writes to his parents, Mir.
 and Mrs. Allan Love, of Prescott, an
 interesting letter of his experience
 abroad in qualifying as an aviator,
 which will be appreciated in this
 community of what is required in acr- ial ability before one is qualified to get in action in actual warfare. The
 following is taken from his letter:
 Well, 1 have finally started to fly again, and was given a grass cutter, that is a machine whose wing sur face has been cut down so it won't fly, but will just skim along the ground. They start us out with them so that we can get used to handling the machine, which IS harder to han dlc than the Curtis. There arc ten in my class and three of the boys put their machines up on their noses, so you can imagine how 1t goes. l got through quite lucky, blew couple of rotten tires, and five in one round trip of the field. Tomorrow 1 will get aboard of a 3 double, later the l8's and last the l5's, which is fast high powered little machine. The fellows are kidding me for walk ing into hangar when l bumped into a barbcd wire fence, scatching my nose, face and lip. The machine was going at lively tilt and seemed to have an affinity for going into the hangar to get back home.
 Flew at 700 o'clock this morn ing, April 9, with the instructor, and
 made three fine landings, so he turned me over to a tester. for three more landings, when l was lashed.' which means in French, passed After that l was turned loose and went over the field right away in a swift pace. The usual thing is to give each student five landings each time out until about 20 landings have been made. If your work is satisfac- tory they give you a half hour air work, and turn you loose. Of course while Is or 20 landings is the aver age, some arc more lucky than oth- CTS, and 1t was that way with me. 1 misjudgcd on my first landing, but after that hit as close to the mark as was possible and still missed the machine standing on the ground. Well, after making five landings, I looked for them to call me in, but in- stead they motioned for me to goI around again, and made about eight fine landings, when the monitor, (Frcnch for instructor), came over and asked me if I had a watch. I told him, yes, when he said: Go up, and do a half hour air work when 1 beat it off again and had a dandy time, although l nearly frozc. When 1 came down he called to me toI come over, and all he said was that | had passed. l am now anticipat- ing to qualify in few days for navi- gating with the highest type of a machine and l was the first to be passed in my class, but there arc four of us clipping along at the same rate, so in all probability we will be to- gcthcr in the windup. French meth ods in aerial doings are perfect and yet rigid.
 General Pershing and staff, with Secretary of War Baker visited our camp last Saturday. and we Amcri- cans were overjoyed to sec them. | wish I could write as 1 felt, but you know what censorship is exercised. | We are going to win, and mark you there is going to be something hap pen in the air soon"