The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1920-09-08
W|SSM|LLER AND
YOUNG PLEASE
LABOR DAY CROWD
THOUSANDS WATCH WHILE
y AVIATOR MAKES STUNT AND
PASSENGER FLIGHTS

Ed. Wismiller and Aisle Young,
the two men who came here from the
the Saginaw Aviation Co., for the
purpose of making the Labor Day ex-
hibition flights and also for the car
rying up of passengers while they
were here were certainly big enough
birds to fill the bill Of expectations
from every way that spectator
might wish to look at it from the
many remarks which we heard passed
among the people of the crowd wiss-
miller and Young had done all that
anyone in the crowd had come to see.
The two aviators had flown from
Grand Rapids to this city, arriving
here Saturday afternoon. They start
ed in carrying passengers on Sun
day afternoon and the following peo-
pie were given a ride in the clouds
that day before it became too dark
for further flying: w. j. Rannel, Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Shawley, Mrs. Frank
Kane, Clyde Christiansen, Clarence
Christensen, w. r. King, Howard
Gould, Ed. ID. Engemann and Ben
Longan. Mondays passengers were:
Elmer Austin, p. F. Vierley, Bill De-
Vlieger, Florence> Richmond, Dun
can Robertson, Fred Martin, Mike
Kennedy, Nellie Gohn, Villa st. Onge
H. E. Miller, Mrs. A. K. Steere and
Frank Clarke. The latter has taken
a number of rides in the various
planes which have, visited this city
and on this last flight he was with
Pilot Young when he made the exhi-
bition flight at $3.50 o'clock, Labor
Day evening in which the crowd saw
seven consecutive loop-the loops, also
Immelman turns, barrel rolls, nose
and tail spins
In making these stunts the avia-
tor is continually loosing altitude and
a regular nose or tail spin loses about
500 feet. For that reason it is nee
essary that great height be reach
ed before any stunts are attempted
and when Pilot Young started in do
ing his stunts he was somewhat bet
ter than three-quarters of mile up
in the air. Mr.. Wissmiller is the
man who performed the wing walk
ing at the celebration here last La
Dor Day and he was going to perform
this here Monday but owing to his
not feeling as well as he should. he
was persuaded not to attempt it.
The editor was treated to a ride
in the big bird, which is a Curtis
bi-plane, of 80 horsepower and which
was originally used in an army train
ing camp for the training of future
flyers. Pilot Young, Immediately af-
ter Mr.. Wissmiller had got us Sc
curedly strapped in, turned on the
gas and We were soon skipping over
the ground at surprising rate of
speed. All of sudden we realized
that we had left the earth under us
and we were soon soaring over the
fields south of the landing place. 1t
took US about minute and we were
over Seeley creek, just north of
Smyrna and then back over the land
ing field where we looked down upon
the people who had gathered there.
They were but seemingly small specks
of black and automobiles were appar-
emily small bugs crawling along at
snails pace over roads which looked
like white threads and led in all dir
ections.
On and on we went and we were
soon over the city where we picked
out many familiar objects which we
The gas plant and other in
one had given the children some
were seeing the results. The whole
city looked like tiny, small playhous-
es and we could not help but realize
the tremendous amount of work which
has entered into the construction of
the myriad of buildings since this
city was started. Neither could we
look at the great view below ms,
without at the same time seeing the
wonderful part which the hand of
God has also taken in assisting a
people in their work. 1t was an in
spring sight and a wonderful trip
and we suppose that with such care
full and experienced pilots as Mr.
Wissmiller and Mr.. Young, there is
no more danger connected with such
a trip than there is in riding in an
automobile-in fact we had far rath-
er take another airoplane ride than
ride in an automobile with some Of
our reckless friends around the city.
After taking us high over the Ban
ner-News office and over the city
again, Mr.. Young turned the big
plane back toward the landing field
and we were soon unstrapped and out
telling our friends of the glorious
trip which we had had.
Mr.. Wissmiller and Mr.. Young re-
mained here over Tuesday and are
still here today. There is one thing
certain and that is that they have
certainly pleased Belding Labor Day
audiences in a splendid manner on
two different occasions in the past
and we cannot in any way to heart
lily recommend them to any city or
place who might be looking for the
services Of a first class flying exhi-
bition and set of flying stunt avia-
tors.
They were here last year in the
employ of the Detroit Aviation Co.
but this year they have their own
concern-The Saginaw Aviation Co.,
Saginaw, Mich, and are the owners
of two planes. the one which they had
here and one which they have in the
eastern part of the state and which
is a $50 horse power, two passenger
machine cf the very latest model.