The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-06-14

{ took q big breath, leaned back
comfy like and just flew.
Tries No stunt
u doesn't feel like anything else
I ever did n was powerfully noisy
] couldn't make this fellow with me
hear "a thing without putting up my
i've hands and Just yelling smack
INTO his ear. once stood up and
could DO somes 81 nts II be wanted
turned around to tell the pilot he
Z tu, ~ course he couldn't hear me.
va hc turned he engine of 10 he
could. Gosh. ! 'sposed we'd drop
right down Then but W. kept on GO
ing lie shook his head about the
tun business. sn ! sat down.
Aud say, hlit q WAS windy up there.
There was a little windshield across
the top Of the hole we were In. We
couldn't see through u. tho. because
II was greasy. and besides there
wasn't Qnything To see. lookink up,
except Sky. hut W. were gnins 50
fast that even dow in our hole the
wind blew our cyelashes back into
our eyes. And outside. Whee! !
stuck my arm nut once to wave q
handkerchief. ! Lost the handkerchief
and would have lost my hand II !
haan't brought II back In soon.
After ! got kinda used to every
thinE inside I lpnkod over the edge ~
the body. l didn't see anything at
first except our shadow way down
there moving across the brownish
green ground Two or three little
spcrks ( 'sposed were houses. and
SURF enough we were going ever west
Albuquerque.
River Looks Rig
botcha Albuquerque In the pref
tlost place In the state. from the afr
trs an so neat ana prim looking.
with little rcd and brown n green
roofs and an in % row and green
puff balls Of trees all around. And
green. an ~ and down. I couldn't
figur. u Whose those big lawns
we're. and wondered what kid had to
muw them. Tho man with me said
they were ranches, great green
patches. '
Tho river Is a %whopper tp to-
wards Alamedn. I don't wonder that
they were scared when II over flew.
It's about live times bigger across
there than any place else. Dead
Mans island. below the Barelas
bridge IL an island. after all, with
the water on both sides OF It. ]
never did believe II was u sure
enough island aud nom never would
let me 70 to find out.
The little old volcanoes didn't show
up any more than the sand hills by
.thc university ala, from whore We
were then The lava flats made "a
long dark wigFly streak all along
the river and back Of them was "A
great biz mountain, that YOU can't
cven see from tn" Mt Taylor,
the guy -nid.
Coming back from across the river
We went straight up Central venue.
II could tell IL. because its a streak
going from the river to the mountains
aud the railroad Is another streak go-
ing the other way along the river. l
looked over and picked VA the school
where ( went and counted up the
blocks away from IL where / live and
found my own little house right
where Il 10, was 30 surprised. ]
didn't see anybody around, though.
Eastern folks think our street, cars
are funny little things. They oughta
see 'em from the air. ono was
crawling up the university line. re-
minded me of q little red lady hug
climbing up the stem OF q rose bush.
Automobiles YOU could Just barely
see EN-, little black specks.
Wasn't hit ScarS.
lie took MS back to the mesa and
flew around over the race tHack. We
had a race with one Of those speed.rs
but beat Il all hollow, I don't care
much for turning corners. though 1t
seems rs though the plans stops go-
ing ahead and Just does a ieft face
right there b. the air. once he Turn
ed and started down all az the same
time. That old yellow wing which
ia been looking across at my left
seemed To DE pointing straight down
and I was a%l"auing over and looking
down u.
y ouCe. when We started straight
down. It felt just like a roller coaster
or an elevator back In Chicago. Some
times we'd be- going along smooth
like ana an Of n sudden we'd drop,
That felt funny Inside. u was air
pockets we hit, the man said. The
lower down we got coming home Inc
more my ears thumpod and rams in
side, but that WAS an.
II wasn't skary q bit. lust grand
ana glorious. Forty five people went
up yesterday. including me. The pilot
left town this morning but he's COM
ing back saturday, ana Saturday
get paid again. watch me.