The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-05
NEW ACE THREATENS ag'
TO TAKE LAURELS
3 OF CAPTAIN "Rlck'
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machine starts to rolling across the
fled; friends on the ground pass up
me goodbye josh and I'm off for
the upper realm.
In a moment the plane takes the
air 8haIlllItHallze that for the first
tine ] am flying. The motor is max
ing a deafening noise but I'm just sit
ting there enjoying the exhilarating
sensation climbing upward on moth
ing and floating as serenely as If
were sailing along in the most placid
Wa lers of a quiet bay in the Pacific
ocean.
Air is Choppy.
No, it didn't take my breath and
didn't have any Of that all.gone feel
ing which one experiences when he
takes a trip to the top OF sky-scrap.
er in a rapid transit elevator. The
air is slightly choppy and the ma
chine bucks bit but that only adds
70 the zest of adventure. Capt. Br
M.n is on the job the motor is play
t . merry tune and / see the broad
wings Of the big bird spread out on
either sde-the sense of security
could not be greater,
We sail southwark from the field
We of the o. C. W., going over to
tie far side of the Country club and
tAen make a graceful curve, veering
cat and then north, and now | am
getting a birdseye view of Chickasha
from about 1000 feet above the beau
tlful city. ! ann seeing things, betcher
Ii. e | am, and | wish | had a dozeI
e. es to take in all the wonderful
panorama that is spread out before
ne.
Is Beautiful Sight.
see green fields and crops over
an expanse that seems to have no
ending, the pretty Washita winding
gracefully eastward and Immediately
below | can distinguish even my own
little red cottage on Colorado avenue,
Large objects, such as the First Ma
tional bank building, the mill, Bert
Barefoot and Jim Hill stand out in
bold relief What's that? Two min
nature objects moving snail4ike across
Chickasha avenue. the size of ants
] look closely and discover that it Is
Ed Worthington and Albert Thomp-
son-I would recognize those mugs al
q diJtance of five miles.
On we sail little east of the Rock
Island over the green patches below,
then northward over the Chickasha
cctton oil mill and thence turning
around, we start over the business
section again When Immediately
over Third and Choctaw we make a
big dive almost straight down. and
say, boy, that is the most thrilling
Lart of the whole thing-those dives
when the nose of the machine points
downward and you seem to be head
ing straight for the earth, but, oi
course, you know that you're not go
ing to hit it and you just enjoy the
lensation. AT this point in the trip
| thought for a moment that Capt
Erwin was going to deposit me at
my office door but he swept upward
again and we headed for the field
and after making two or three more
swift dives, bounding upward again
ana side-sailing a few times, We
came gliding down to the field as
smoothly as we went up.
Sorry It's over.
had been in the air about ten min.
uteS, Before going up had fancied
that it would seem like long time
but my impression was wrong-it
didn't seem like we had been gone
more than two minutes. At no stage
Of the trip had there been any un-
p ea5ant sensation, physical or other
wise; 1t was just a bit Of rare sport
lilly, good fun, you might say, and,
of course, like everybody else, l had
the air bug, hankering for more of it,
After l came down l remembered that
had been so busy rubbering at the
landscape and the town below that
hadn taken time to analyze my
ieelings--I might have been in car
On a paved highway, for that matter,
50 gently did the thing sail Except
VIXEN making an upward turn or a
swift dive, l didn't have the sensa-
ton of speed; on the straight ahead
laps of the trip the machine might
have teen ttanding still, poised in
n..d-air.
No doubt the fact that this little
cd, eL.ure was minus the super-thrills
which might be anticipated is to be
attributed to the familiarity with
p 4ncs which we have acquired by
seeing so much of them during the
Ia 3, few years. Furthermore, in my
cr9n case, was not entirely inexpe
renc.ed as an aviator because | once