South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-20
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Perhaps you've read accounts OF arplane trips where
the people ground below are described as
sembng ants2 Well. they bore no such resemblance
Thursday. because though looked long and well the
smallest thing could an automobile. Bicycles
and pedestrians except where there were number OF
people standing together. simply invisible
CITY APPEARS DESERTED
This fact made it appear that South Bend was more
less Of deserted city. although smoke clouds
which flying bore testimony 20 the fac,
that kind Of life existed the otherwise apparent
entity make-believe city spread below Maybe YOU
waved us, didn't see you
You fly over countless houses and innumerahie
YOU your birds eye view Of the city,
Presently the circle completed and you begin 70 ay
south the landing again. But as you look
down you can't md the place where YOU know you
land. Fields of kinds below you but the
proper one doesn't TO be there Maybe you're au
turned around. More thrills
Then suddenly. the machine svoops down. You feel
sickening feeling somewhere the region Of your
stomach The plane skins over a hay field and then
you for the first white tent which marks
the landing place. You feel a bump and the wheels
rumble beneath YOU. The unaccostomed sound seems
loud comparison the smooth motion YOU have
been feeling. You're back on earth You're safe once
more a sigh of relief. The thrills over.
TAKING PICTURES N THE AIR
Someone wrote poem about THAT newspaper guy
which said that press representative gets in
where other people kept That more or Jess
a mistake--tabe for example board of safety
ing. However newspaper did get "a chance
do something else has done n-or above.
raher-South Bend. That take pictures one air
plane another several Thousand feet in the air
With ones mind on his work the fact that the city
is quite distance straight down is All that
reach ones consciousness is that
like machines scootng around close each other.
The world below is forgotten Like camera the
focuses the other machine, and the fields below
simply blur if anything.
When Lieut. C. F. Ballard of the army air service
town. he had been told that The News-Times
would effort to secure his picture in the air.
he knew what the other machine was after.
when he it coming Very accommodatingy. ne
side-sIipped under us flew over u.s. around us.
still. did everything make it possible to get
picture. If the that he slid dangerously
better for a picture he didn't seem TO care about
danger whatever feeling two passengers.
accustomed to aerial acrobatics. might be-
DAY OF sCOFFER PAST
One thing certain about the conquest Of the II
is an accomplished fact No longer is the person who
flies deemed dare devil Flying is rapidly becoming
a popular sport, despite the present IT, O. Of T. Proof
this can be obtained right here South Bend Some
people viewed the city from the seat Of
the McCabe- Sellers machine and in number. APP
proximatey 10 were Dare devils 80. Peo-
pie who want TO experience something new. without
really taking any chances.
The day Of the sconer is past Air travel is here
not coming Enterprsng newspapers throughout the
country using arpanes stories and pictures
in quick time. Mail express passengers are being car
ried the air. I have my desk the announcement
Of a newly formed corporation which intends
augurate great air system. the order Of the New
York Central lines system the ground carry mail
freight passengers and an the ay
air
And there's one more thrill. before Pm through.
want TO mention. That is. being able say:
Flying? on. yes Great sport I've done IT,"