The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
FLYING PARSON AT
MINEOLA IN RACE

which 'let them down. on Thursday
with broken crankshaft. There was
| absolutely no indication, OF the hasty
shift OF motors under the most primitive
conditions This reused more admira-
ton on the part of the flying men almost
than Lieut.. Maynard's achievement in
the air.
While this was going on, and as Col
Archie Miller, commander of the Long
Island flying fields, was congratulating
| Lieut.. Maynard, and officers were
pounding Sergeant Kline on the back,
the third member OF the transcontinental
journey was likewise holding a levee.
Trixie, who is nothing but a German
police pup, despite the fact that she has
been generally described as n Skye ter
rier or an Airedale by humorists at
every control. was being patted on the
back simultaneously Ivy many hands.
Trixie. after unqualified approval OF
Mrs. Maynard and the two babies,
smelled the turf of Mineola with the APP
proving shifts Of one who has travelled
far only to ind that there's no place like
home
Both in Good shape.
Both men looked fit, despite the strain
they had been under during the Gays OF
almost COnStdHt uylhk ZIG udy
light hours Lieut. Maynard's face was
a bit scanned by wrinkles and Redeemed
and roughened by the rush OF the air,
but Il was obvious that he was in per-
feet physical trim, or would be after a
little sleep and some real home food.
Sergt Kline was likewise bit worn
by the hard trip, but otherwise in fine
shape.
Lieut. Maynard is in his late twenties.
good looking principally because OF big,
brown eyes and regular features. The
wrinkles about his eyes and on his fore
head were new ones, It was easy to see.
and sure to disappear after bit Of rest.
Both In manner and In conversation
Maynard resembles greatly the average
young American of the Air Service, who
Is. because Of the strictness of. require
ments and examinations, a bit above
the average of the youth Of the nation
Beyong the fact that his speech is with
out forceful explosives he differs little
from the other pilots
The crowd which had waited patiently
for the flier since his start from Bing-
haniton found him much to their liking.
although Maynard himself did not go
out of his way in the least to win their
approval by his manner. He couio not
have been less concerned IL he had
merely dropped down from a practice
hop.
Lieut.. Maynard. however. had treated
his greeters courteously in that their
wait was short indeed, much shorter
than most of the spectators expected.
Word was flashed by telephone from
Binghamton that he had taken of on
the last hop of his arduous journey at
1884.
Few of those assembled had begun
to scan the northwestern sky when he
popped into sight about AS. He COW
cred that last dash of 142 miles In 76
minutes. over country which was rocky
and billy and covered with trees, which
made It a poor place on which to land.
Know Where to Watch sky.
Some discreet pilots who knew the
flying parson better than the rest of the
crowd kept one eye on the light blue
sky over the hangers while they lounged
and he was picked up almost as soon as
he came into range Of vision, a tiny
black speck with an almost imper-
ceptible black train trailing behind. The
black speck grew marvellously In a few
seconds, and Curtiss Jennie. which
was wheeling In the nearer atmosphere
banked around hastily as its pilot
sighted the OH in the distance, and de-
II.
But Lieut.. Maynard was homeward
bound. and before the Curtiss training
plane could complete its evolution the
big gray plane had swept far beyond II.
Almost above the three official tents
Lieut. Maynard abruptly tilted his plane
into a steep bank. SO steep in fact that
hs seemed entirely on end to the
spectators.
He curved rapidly about. losing alti-
tude In a manner impossible in a glide,
and then finished with a beautiful side
slip which made several iiers on the
ground swear despairingly at their own
inferiority. The moment
of landing was imperceptible to the
watchers. so gradually did the plane
cease to skim the grass tops and plant
its black rubber tires firmly on the sod.
AZ 1t came nearer. taxying along the
smooth field. the cheers continued and
reached a climax when the crowd saw
the painted greeting, which Maynard
himself had put on the bonnet OF the
machine before he had started out on
Hello. Frisco" was the salutation.
and It had been the first to flash down
upon the Preside landing field and the
first to leave the hospitable Golden Gate.
The matter of Lieut.. Maynard's flying
time from San Francisco is In doubt
Since the day and night he spent in the
Nebraska corn field will be counted in,
according to the rules of the race. 1t will
be much more than the "a hours Sc min
utes and 55h seconds during which he
was In the air on the way to the Golden
Gate. His elapsed time on the west
bound trip was days hours and AZ
minutes. while on the eastbound II was
3 days 21 hours and >2S minutes.
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