The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-07-04

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of English, French and Italian bird
men, l remembered, too, that same
calmness, that same sort of exaltatior
although they would not like for me
to use that last word; and | compared
them with our own boys, and l was
not ashamed
He came at last, and young friend
with him. When he stepped from the
fusillage and started toward me, where
l stood back of the deadline, loosening
his helmet, and showing up his Cog
giles to his forehead-oh, / knew him
anyhow, knew every movement of his
slim young legs and shoulders; wasn't
it only yesterday he used to clip those
arms about my neck and laugh? And
yesterday, too when he was tired
out, in the afternoon, he often went
to sleep on my shoulder. Now, he
started eagerly toward me, and then,
remembering, he turned and gave a
quick order to the mechanics, and
sprang toward me again.
He and his young friend were like
all these other lieutenants, striplings,
bronzed, lean, with the same hard lines
gathering about mouths and eyes and
the same look of finality. Many of
them reason that their time is short;
and, when off duty, in the anonymity
of their stations far from home, they
intend to have their fling. Others, if
they would talk frankly to you, would
say:
81 intend to come back. My luck has
been with me so far, l am going to
count on it to the last"
Said one of them to me: al don't
know, sir, how it will be, when l am
told up at the front to go out after
that boche in the sky; and it's an even
break whether I'll get him or he'll get
me. My nerve may give way"
cts not an even break" l answered
and l think | told the Gods truth.
cts at least 2 to l shot in your
favor You are young, fresh, and
you come from a young, fresh Nation.
You 90 against tired men, or tired
race, in an old wornout type of civil
cation. It's a to l shot in your IA
vor; and for the same reasons it's
5 to 1 bet that we win the war"
Three great aviation fields and a
concentration camp, to which aviators
are sent between schools or before en-
barking, we visited in the next two
days, besides camp of some thirty
five thousand men in other branches
of the service. We saw rows of hang
ars half mile long, repair shops
where wings were recovered or re-
stitched, engines overhauled, tires vul-
canized What used to cost the gov
eminent SIS to send East and do can
now be done on the ground for SIS.
Of course most of the ships en-
ployed are Curtiss training planes
with o. X. engines, the ]. N. AID, and
the ]. N. All, the standard, the His
PAM Suiza and the like. They are
slow boats comparatively. They make
perhaps 60 to so miles, according to
the wind. The Hispani Suiza, how
ever, makes more than one hundred
miles; all training planes in future
are likely to be of this type. The
school ships make from 6 to 8 miles
on gallon of gasoline, and they do
not disdain the common garage type
of fuel. Of course the pilots see to
it that wayside "gas" is carefully
strained before they use it. Neither
are these planes so aristocratic as to
demand castor oil Ordinary mineral
oil, such as you put into your motor
car, is quite good enough for them.
When it comes to the little fast and
high flying fighting planes, castor oil
is required, on account of the cold in
high attitudes.
The Canadian Stick" is a Curtiss
plane, so called because made in Tor
onto and stick controlled-not wheel
controlled of the Depper-dessen type.
The "stick" is about like the steering
rod of an electric coupe car, only it
is upright instead of horizontal, and,
working in universal joint, is NOV
able in all four directions. The con-
troll wires run back from the stock to
the rudder at the tip of the tail, to
the ailerons, which are the movable
edges of the wings and govern the
horizontal stability of the ship, and to
the elevator, also at the tail. You have
to steer not merely to right or left,
as in a motor car, but also up and |
down-in other words, in four dimen-
sions.
We became aware of the rat-tat-tat-
tat of machine guns in the air. 1t was
reminiscent of the front lines, and
one almost looked to see the shrapnel
dotting the sky about the planes In
stead we saw the tow targets stream
ing behind the ships. At the end of