Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-22
MISS VIRGINIA McGAUGHY
SCARS OVER CITY IN
AIRSHIP.
Loops the Loop With Aviator
from Eberts Field While
Friends Stare.
(By j. H. Sorrells.)

(bN l.. oOTTcllS.)
When Lieutenant Billiter, an avia-
tor and nationally known as stunt
flyer, now stationed at Eberts Field,
Lonoke, dropped out of the sky from
the landing field, east of the city, and
bouncing along the field to where
small group stood watching him, ask
ed Miss Virginia McGaughy, beau
tiful member of the younger social
set if she cared to take spin up
among the clouds, she answered in
the vernacular of the present day
as if some one had invited her to have
an ice cream soda.
"Sure" she said, 81 don't mind"
A number of girl friends who were
with her protested. They drew NOR
bid pictures of falling plane, the
crash, the mangled bodies, but Miss
Virginia had decided that she would
like to take ride in an airplane, and
brushing aside her friends, said to
the officer: "Give me those clothes,
I'm going up"
Accordingly she crawled into the
leather garments, fixed the goggles,
adjusted the headgear and with a
gay smile and a wave, climbed into
the rear seat of the plane as casually
as if she was taking her seat before
her mirror.
The officer strapped her in and then
adjusted his own head gear and Cog
giles, and as he seated himself, look
ed around to see, if probably at the
last minute, she should lose heart
LET 'er go" says Daring Girl
"Let 'er CO." the girl cried, and
with roar the big motors started.
The machine lifted from the ground,
and nose up mounted higher and high
er until it became mere speck amid
the blue of the sky, while down be-
low the little group watched with
staring eyes, and wide open mouths.
The plane was in the air about 80
minutes. 1t circled high above the
city, and it circled so low that people
in the offices of the higher buildings
could almost look down on the occu-
pants of the machine. After they
had circled about very tamely for
perhaps ten minutes, Lieutenant Bill
liter looked back and shouted: "Do
you want to loop the loop?" "Well,
just little bit, she yelled back, and
the machine began looping.
""Want anything else?" he yelled
again.
give me all you've got" she
shrilled, and with her answer, the Of
ficer began to demonstrate why he is
called national stunt flyer.
When the plane touched the ground,
Miss McGaughy unstrapped herself,
and though the lieutenant was ready
to assist her, she jumped to the
ground as lightly and as non-chalently
as if she had been riding in nothing
more exciting than a street car.
Her friends greeted her return to
earth as if she had been brought back
verify from the jaws of death.
"Were you afraid ?" they queried
in concert.
And She's Afraid of Water
"Well," she answered, cts funny,
I'm SO afraid of water that I've never
learned to swim, and it's matter of
record that Pm not the least bit brave,
but do you know, l wasn't the least
bit afraid"
"Sensations!-Oh boy! 1t was,
we'll, it was just grand. You feel
like you are floating along and that
you haven't a care in the world. You
think idly about falling and you Won
der disinterestedly just what the SEN
sation of falling would be, but the
idea of falling doesn't bother you.
You have the most delicious 4 should
worry feeling in the world.
"The officer told me if l felt sick
just to stick my head over the side.
and-well, l didn't get sick one little
bit; / didn't feel dizzy, or anything.
The strain on my eyes was great and
the glare Of the sun was terrible, ev-
en- through the goggles, but my ears
didn't pound.
Willing to Make Flight Again.
Would you go up again."
well, guess yes. I'd go up
again right now; I'd do it any dav.
It's the most satisfactory feeling in
the world-for woman especially.
For nothing can possibly make one
feel quite so superior as floating al
ong up there. knowing these crawling
little ants down there are human be-
ings.
"But, there's one objection. One
cannot possibly look ones best in