The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-06-12
SEASlCK, and NOT
A SEA TO Be Seen
Clarence chamberIin Describes First
Trip In Air, Going at so to IS
Miles Per Hour. -.
NOT THE LEAST SCARED, BUT
o Dsyl Such . Feeling Right After .
-, Perfectly Good ereakfast-He
Drops 600 Feet to Earth

Perfectly Good ereakfast-He
Drops 900 Feet to Earth
An interesting letter was received
In Denison last week from Clarence
Chamberlin, who is In the aviation de-
partment and in training at Chanute
fold in Illinois. Clarence first enlist
I'd In the balloon service, but secured
transfer from this department and
went into aviation. He writes of his
first experience in the air. His letter
follows:
Cadet Barracks No. 1,
I Chanute Field. Rantoul, Ill.
got here last Tuesday afternoon,
but did not go up until Friday morning.
Would have gone up Thursday but it
was Decoration day and no one flew.
It's quite bit different up here. They
don't watch you so closely and make
you feel like they were helping you
through instead of trying to kick you
out. The "chow" is much better, too.
II has to be or else it wouldn't stay
down. ! had an awful time keeping
POA 40VSly 6OOu VI O1nkdoI uO"A ycS"
,terday morning. Seasick! Oh boy!
and no sea for miles around. 1t sure
surprised me. There are waves in
the air just like on the ocean only
you 60 up and down much faster be-
cause you are running from so to IS
or 80 miles an hour all the time. You
may be riding along as smooth as
can be and all at once the front end
dips down and you drop about 10
feet, then you come up on the other
side like shoot the chutes. But you
slways come out o. X. The first one
We hit had just gotten settled down
and beginning to feel quite natural
80 that could look around and en-
Joy myself a bit, when all at once it
felt as though some one had knocked
the seat out from under me and l
was falling like rock. Then it felt
like I hit springing board and was
shot back into the air again. This
kept up for ways and about the time
my head was swimming good and my
stomach felt like it was trying to get
into my mouth the instructor shut off
the gas and made 900 foot dive for
the ground. About so feet from the
ground he Strengthened up and we
glided OH and lit as nice as could be.
! was not scared a bit, but had q
mighty sickly feeling. After we land.
ed the instructor asked me how liked
II. :. had hard time telling him it
was dne e.. was wishing he would
say, we'll, that's enough for the first
time, for / was not nearly, so anxious
a. ut FIRST, It was what they call
bumpy weather. Whenever the wind
crosses hill, railroad or bunch Of
trees. or something like that it mixes
the dir all up and makes the plane
Jump; around like it was on rubber
string. went up four times more
and got no better fast I sure was
9lsd when he said, "Well, that's all
ttis time, just think over what you
saw, heard and felt" says, Eyes, sir"
L couldn't have forgotten it anyway.
This morning 1t was different. Eth
or 1t wasn't so bumpy or else was
too busy to notice it. Didn't get
dek. 1 bit. Yesterday I was afraid
might not be able to fly on account
of getting sick, but now know l can
Dc. IT, After the first couple of times
around this morning the instructor
let me run the thing. You see, each
d al has q; set of controls. sit in
the back seat. Then If do anything
wrong the instructor shakes the stick
and l,let 60. The up and down motion
by q stick that runs up from the floor
between your knees. You steer the
thing with your feet. started the
machine of the ground and landed 1t
three times and circled around the
field this morning and the instructor
only took the control out Of my hands
about three times. He helped me
several times, but most of the time
h6 had his hands of. started to
run Il all by myself before I had been
In the air an hour all together.
expect to run 1t without the instructor
In It some time the last Of next week.
Think could 10 it now, but will have
to wait q little while.
We used to think we got up early,
but now we are out ready to fly be-
fore We used to think of getting up.
We get up at 4:15 a. m. (only) and
have breakfast, clean up the room,
make our beds, ETC., and are ready
to ,hy ut $50 a. m. am usually
through flying, by 9 a. m. You see,
have to wait my turn, but as c is
near the front of the alphabet I am
near the first. Then from 10 to IL is
usually, classes, also to s p. m. Then
q lecture Of some kind from 1880 to
$50 d. m. We 60 to bed at 900 p. m.
d eooner and call 1t days work.
Whenever we have a vacant hour you
Will ind ~, sleeping in our hunks. We
are . pretty decent outfit down here,
probably because we have neither time
nor ambition to get out after a days
work. S. #-t- So
This is q much longer letter than
usual for me so will quit for this time.
~ Sincerely, Clarence
had oNLv THREE OR FOUR OTIS.
George Wilcox and Nick Juergsns,
Farm Hands Near Ricketts,, TAX
en- into Custody by Marshal.