Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-10-18

pumped into a cornfeld, toiled to
install the big Liberty motor from
the wreck of Capt. Roy Francis
bombing plane into No. 81. These
two did the skilled work alone.
Trusted to Luck
1--WE trusted to luck-and went to
work." Kline explained.
They rugged up chain over the
limb of a big tree and with il lifted
out the broken motor and hoisted
in the new engine.
Dawn was breaking when the last
nut fastening the propeller was
| frightened and the engine ready.
20. K, warm her up" said Lieu
tenant Maynard.
"Kline climbed into the cockpit
and manipulated switch and throttle
until satisfied that the big power
plant was ready for his chief. Then
he scrambled into the rear cockpit
and dozed beside Trixie, the Ger
man police dog, while Maynard
took up his share of the race, fight
ing the bumps in the air and worry
ing about the route.
One reason why they are break
ing records is that Maynard does a
lot of things not taught or counte-
nanced in the flying schools. Coming
into Grant park, he had too much
altitude, officials say, and according
to the "Hoyle' of flying, should
have gone around the field again.
"Side-Skids" Down.
Instead Maynard did a dangerous
looking skid one way, then the other
way, and set his plane down. This
doesn't take so long.
When time came for Maynard to
leave, he didn't run down to the
other end Of the field and take off
into the wind. He simply gave 'er
the gun" and took of from that
part of the field where he happened
to be, squarely across the wind. 1t
was more dangerous, but quicker.
He held the ship close to the ground
for 100 yards, zoomed it a couple
of hundred feet-that is, shot his
plane almost straight up-turned
the nose southeast and was on his
way to'Bryan, Ohio.
Crowd Volleys Questions.
Dozens Of questions were fred at
the tired pilot by the crowd.
Don't you get awfully tiredl"
asked one.
No, ! don't get as tired as some
of them. One aviator whom ! met
on the way to the coast looked like
a corpse. This country is all right
to fly over. but those mountains"
he stopped as, if description were
impossible.
(Which side of the country would
you recommend to cross-country
fyers?"
"Well, I'd recommend the west if
they want to see pretty country"
he said.
Lieutenant Maynard said that he
rarely went up more than 1000 feet
or, at most, 5000 feet above the
terrain over which he is flying, and
that he didn't run his motor to the
limit of its possibilities.
Good to Movie Men.
When motion picture men crowd
ed about him as he clambered out
of the seat, the flying parson"
smilingly tried to oblige them all as
they lcveled their cameras at him.
Lieutenant, would you mind
picking up your dog again! Now
hold that a minute" they pleaded,
and the hero of the air race good
naturally turned this way and that
Trixie enjoyed it, too, and let one
photographer get snapshot OF her
as she aimed caress at Maynard's
nose with her long, active tongue.
Before Lieutenant Maynard accept
ed lunch from Red Cross workers,
he carefully lifted the dog out of the
plane. He let Kline worry about
the engine, but he took care of the
dog himself. Trixie sleeps most of
the time in the air and saves her
energy for the stirring receptions
she meets on the ground.