Arizona republican., 1919-06-04

ner track like a cup. The motor cars on the ground looked like ants.
 Sensations Begin
 About this time the pilot leaned for ward and yelled something at the pas senger. His words were drowned in the roar of the motor. but at the third attempt the writer discovered he was asking if the former wished to do some stunts. Being out for all the thrills there were and proud of his ability not to get sick, the reporter nodded.
 The real sensations began then.
 With Phoenix straight below, the plane mounted higher until the altitude instrument recorded 4000 feet. The climbing, with several spirals, was sensation, but it was speedily lost sight of in what followed.
 First the planes nose seemed to be pointing straight up.. The world be- low seemed to be going around and around and then disappeared. For an instant he plane seemed motionleSs and the passenger Srasped his seat tightly to assist the strap around his l body to hold his weight. Everything was topsy turvy-and quite naturally, as the machine was up side down in the air. Then it's nose pointed straight downward and in the comet-like de- scent that followed the passenger could | hardly breathe. The sensation was one 1 of 8 tightening of the chest and all the l body. The plane strengthened out again and everything was all right. ] The tiny squares of the city were below ] and the air normal. The plane had ! completed it's first loop.
 Plane Gets Crazy fpI- in, ba stunts that followed. First the plane wOud be standing on one wing and then on the other. One time she would dive ! straight downward so fast breathing was impossible, so fast one seemed to be leaving his stomach in the higher air. Then she would be rising again ! rapidly, and banking steeply this way or that. Everything seemed confused and the reporter who had once beer able to distinguish various airplan, stunts from the ground, could not tel one stunt from another. It seemed one new motion after another, anC sensations followed each other tot rapidly to be remembered. One minut, ones stomach was rising slower thai the rest of his body; the next it Wal sinking too slow to keep up with hi body One minute, on a steep banked climb, one felt dizzy; the next, on ; swift downward dive, one was rathe light headed.
 , But confusing as it was, the pas senger was sorry when the shil strengthened out and headed for tn fair grounds and the landing field. H had not been sick yet, and he wante, 10 try some more stunts. He was late surprised to find that they had per formed two loops, some Immelmai , turns. nose dives, and various othe : artistic stunts.
 Landing is Easy
 But the plane headed westwar steadily, then turned around in a lon arc and began to descend. It woul : dive forward and downward a fey hundred feet, flatten out, then descen again. As the arc was completed tn 7 green landing field appeared straigh I I ahead, swath of lighter color mark ! ing the cut strip in which the plan : was to land.
 2 Downward went the plane and up 5 ward rushed the field to meet it. Lieu Bakers calculations were eXcellen The plane seemed only a few feet i the air when it shot over the outer edg of the field. and in a second or two slight bump gave notice that the shi 1 was aSaln on terra flrna. The re ] porter had been prepared for some ex citement in landing, but none appeared Hardly a bump was felt. When tn plane came to a stop it was at nearl the exact spot from which it ha started The flight was over
 The passenger, be it noted was abl to get out, aunaSSisted, and his onl remaining sensations were a dry thro; and a stuffy feeling in the ears. + could not help feeling he had misse something, however, Captain Applet and Lieut. Baker had been so carefl and kind in their instructions in ca: his stomach got the better of him. Ar he had not been sick once.
 Briefly from his experience in u air yesterday, the writer may prese the following conclusions:
 That flying does not necessari make one sick.
 That it is easy NOT to be afra
 when flying. Just forget about DO
 abilities and enjoy it. It's safe.
 That the Salt River Valley saw
 prospectus from the air, is wonderf place
 ' That the United States has turn
 out some aviators that cannot be e
 celled by any country on earth.
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