The courier-index., 1918-04-12
AIRPLANE IN FLIGHT
 COMES TO MARIANNA
AviATORS MAKE RUN OF FIFTY MILES IN FORTY MINUrES- LAND IN HoYLE FIELD SOUTH OF CITY.

over Marianna arrived here Tuesday morning about ten o'clock from Park Field. Memphis. and for half an hour the aviators. Lieut.. Albrey and Pilot Curry. circled over the city dis tributing Liberty Loan literature. The plane was to have made the flight to Marianna on last Saturday, but on account of unfayorable weath- CT conditions the commanding off cer at Park Field declined to per init any of the planes--to attempt a cross country flight. The plane that came here Tuesday made a landing in the Hoyle field south of the city. Hundreds of people drove out to the landing place to look at the plane and talk with the aviators. They went from here to Helena, thence to Clarksdale. Miss. thence back to Memphis. They made the flight from Memphis to Marianna in forty minutes. The distance is approxi- mately fifty miles on an air line.
 tn connection we reproduce be- low extracts from a letter written to Rev. w. c. Boone, pastor Of the Baptist church here, from his broth er-in-law, Capt Trotter. who recently made his first flight:
 This has been red letter day with me. Had the experience of my young life this morning, and will tell you about it. I went for joy ride for half an hour in an aeroplane and did all the stunts in the air ex- cept looping the, loop and tail dive.
 Another captain and l secured permission from the colonel in com mand of the flying school to go for a joy ride. We went to the equip ment room and drew an aviator's coat. head gear and goggles, got the order for the plane that was to take us up and then went out to the field. They told me to take the first flight. so I put on the gear. crawled into the plane. was strapped In, ana told him I was ready to ride. So they started the motor and we start, ed off across the field getting fast ar and faster until all at once we left the ground and started up into the blue sky. Had funny Kind or feeling when we pulled away rom Mother Earth and began to climp' hut we climbed up so fast that IL was only a minute until everything on the ground was so far away that we couldn't tell very we'll that we were still climbing: and while we were moving no or 115 miles an hour it only felt like we were creep ing along The lieutenant, who was inc pilot. was in the back seat, ana | was in front of him.
 "We flew over Lawton. the lndlan School. Camp Doniphan, the Old and New Post, the School of Fire, ana all over this neck of the woods. Every once in while the pliot would cut off his engine and reacn over and touch me on the shouioer and point out different things to me Sometimes he would bank and turn around. and seemed to me &nat ne was turning almost in place, usihs my head for pivot. Then we would turn over sideways and spirai around and around and down ana down. at the rate of about 400 miles 9 minute, it seemed to me. Tnen we would straighten out and start climbing again.
 "The most thrilling part or 'ne ride though. was the nose ave- when he would kill his engine point the nose of the plane straight at tne earth and just simply drop' l don | see how gravity pulled us down as fast as it did. That's real sport you absolutely drop toward the earth. looking it squareiy m 'ne face. with your body parallel to the ground When you make the landing you have feeling nke nose diving but we made the con nection with scarcely a bump
 "Finest experience l ever nad anu wouldn't take anything for having had it.
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