Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-10
YES, We BEEN
Up HAVE YOU?
THE AIR |SF|NE'''
Phoenix Takes to Flying
Fast as 800 Persons Go
Aloft in Week-Lots of
EN- Went Back for One
More Trip
Have you been up yet ?"

Have you been up yet?'
The question is becoming a COM
mon one in Phoenix since the arrival
of four passenger carrying airplanes
at the state fairgrounds one week ago.
During the week these ships of the air
have carried more than eight hundred
passengers skyward. Last Monday
the whirr of the motors overhead
caused thousands of eyes to turn up
ward. Yesterday the noise of an air.
plane attracted about as much atten-
ton as the passing of street car.
Phoenix is calloused to the sound.
Transportation through the air has
been calmly accepted by the people
of AriZona-and it was only Ga years
ago that congress appropriated $4,000
for the purchase of camels to be useo
for military transportation purposes.
The camels are said to have Travelled
across the sands Of Arizona at the
rate of about seventy-five miles a day.
A good air pilot can cross the entire
state in less than that time.
Following the camels as means of
transportation across the plains of
Arizona came the burro, and then
along in 1895 railroad spanned the
state.
When a Train Brought Thrills.
81 can remember the excitement
around Tucson when the first train
whistled into the station" remarked
a pioneer of the state as he nom
| chalantly watched Frank Clark bring
| his aircraft out of nose spin above
| the fairgrounds. Those were the days
/ of progress" The airplane swooped
! earthward, and with an air cutting
| shrek passed directly over the head
| of the early Arizonian. Those things
used to scare my horses" was his only
remark.
Ask almost any business man or the
wife of almost any business man in
Phoenix what the city looks like from
the air, and the reply will quickly
come:
TT looks like a big checker board.
Somehow, when you're UP in the air,
the earth seems to be moving under
you while you are standing still.
They all know-they have been up.
And a great many of them have re-
turned for their second and third trips.
Mothers have brought daugters to the
field to try a trip through atmosphere
According to one of the aviators, the
initiative which the older people show
in venturing into the air presents an
interesting study in psychology.
The Women Enjoy 1t Most.
Tive become quite accustomed to
watching a daughter wait for hel
mother to take the first trip aloft,
Ray Goldsworthy. one of the aviators
said yesterday, land it's the same way
with the young men, who step bach
while father climbs into the plane. And
the women really seem to enjoy the
chase through atmosphere more thar
the men do"
While the airman was still talking
Mrs. Thomas E. Campbell, wife of the
governor, came to his airplane, ac-
companied by her two sons, -Allan ant
Brodie.
'I have told my sons what won
derful experience 1 had in the air, anC
now they want to CO." she explained
Governor Campbell and his wife were
the first passengers to be taken int
the air after the four planes arrived
here at the finish of their Los An
geles-Phoenix air derby last Monday
and yesterday their two young son:
made their premier flight.
The airplanes will continue to carry