Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-10-12
CROWDED HOUSE GREETED
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Custer people were given great treat
last Sunday evening when Lieutenant
Hanley Of the U. 5. Aeroplane Service
gave an address at the Congregational
church Lieutenant Hanley is a Custer
county boy OF whom We are proud. He
has made good in the Service and his
only worry now is that he will be held
in This country as an Instructor which,
while il is not so looked upon by young
Hanley, is the evidence Of the splendid
proficiency to which he has attained in
The art o! flying. The old saying that
"a prophet is not without honor except
in his own country" was abundantly dis
approved by the crowded house that
greeted him and listened for more than
an hour while he described in detail the
fying machine and the different uses to
which it may be put Ihe big crowd
and the hearty greeting given him as he
was introduced seemed 10 get on his
nerves at the beginning, and he remark
ed that while he had been in several
close places since he left Custer the pres
ent one promised to be about the most
trying of all However he soon found
the audience and all were intensely in
terested as the young officer described
IN detail the plain flying and then the
stunts" consisting of the Loop the
Loop" "TaiI Spin" and the 'Immelman
Turn, the latter q maneuver invented
by a very famous German her who was
shot down in duel some time ago by
an equally famous English aviator Lieu.
tenant Bail. The Stunts he told us are
praCJiCed to be used in fighting in the
air or in escaping the enemy fire. Lieu
tenant Hanley observed that the first
service of the aeroplane ant is not duel
ling, but Observation work and Bomb
ing. The due.lng is purely side line
and is largely practlced by those who
have the sporting spirit above the nor
NAL. He disappToved the theory which
he said was advanced by the mother of
one Of the fiers who advised her son
TO fly low and not go too fast" as all
who heard him could see that the very
opposite was true at least as TO the alt-
tude. The higher one is the better OPP
pOrtunity to effect landing or become
righted in case anything goes wrong
One could easily see the perfect conf
dence the Young man had in the ma
chine and incidently in his own mastery
Of the air in his observance a number of
times in describing the very difficult
maneuvers "that the thing was very
easy to do when one had gone through
it few times" Altogether the lecture
was the most instructive on the art OF
flying and the description ofthe machine
which has yet been given at Custer and
to have this given in such clear logical
way by one who had clearly mastered
the art was indeed an unusual OCCASION
1t was very evident to those present that
if the Government should choose to re-
tain Lieutenant Hanley as an Instructor
that it would be from the unusual effici-
enCy which he bad attained and an evi-
dence that the Government knew a good
thing when they saw it,
Lieutenant Hanley will return to the
Aviation Camp in Texas about the mid
die Of the present month. With such
clear headed young men as this to rep
resent this country, we have little to
fear in the result, whether it be the
honor or laurels at stake