Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-25
GIRL REPORTER
DESCRIBES FLIGHT
IN AN AIRPLANE
BY MEDoRA FIELD

| To get a free ride in an airplane
and be able to give one away at the
same time-with all the proper
stunts and frills-and thrills-isn't
possible for many Of us, especially
since flying still comes at the mod
crate figure of 81 per minute. But
that's what happened Thursday aft
ernoon at Gambler Field; I got the
| first flight. L don't know who gets
the other. Maybe you, if you hap
pened to find a ticket attached to a
| toy balloon and dropped down some
where in the vicinity of Five Points
from an altitude Of a thousand feet
or so. Wouldn't it be too awful if
it happened to land on top of the
Fourth National Bank building?
You'd also have the honor of flying
with a very famous aviator, Lieu
tenant S. w. Crane. now an instruc-
| tor in the Ohio air school. but an ace
in the late war. with no less than
eight enemy planes to his credit
down while flying over the German
lines, but managed to land just in
side the safety limit.
| After we took off from Gambler
| field and he started looping and ex-
ecuting fancy turns, I'll confess that
I got just a bit paniclky. You see,
had very foolishly told him about last
| spring when l Topped with Bob
Shank and got lost with the Flying
Parson--at an altitude of $4,000 feet,
travelling ITO miles per hour--nav-
| ing a forced landing, and getting
back to Gambler field three and half
hours late. was afraid Lieutenant
Crane was going to try to out-Herod
Herod. It certainly looked that way
at the moment. But the worst thing
that happened was. scraping our
wings on the bank when we landed,
and didn't know about that until
| someone told me, for Lieutenant
Crane is a marvellous pilot, and fly
ing with him is like being waited
away on the wings of the morning.
You can ask Miss Florence Cheney.
of 705 North Boulevard. who took her
first flight with him yesterday after
| noon.
| A certain young man exacted a
promise from Lieutenant Crane that
he wouldn't loop with Miss Cheney
| but when they were just a small
speck in the distance and Lieutenant
Crane turned around and described
| circle with one hand, Miss Cheney
nodded very enthusiastically and the
next moment had the pleasure of
looking down at the blue sky be-
|
| LIEUTENANT Crane is enthusiastic
over the possibilities of Atlanta as
| an air center. and stated that the
| development of the proposed new
| landing field would undoubtedly do
much toward bringing many other
planes to the city and making 1t a
| stop-over point. He saw his first cot
ton the other day, en- route from
Chattanooga to Atlanta. when ne
made a forced landing in a cotton
i field just across the Chattahooehee
river. His plane is an "old relia bic"
ety-horsepower Curtiss. and he
came to Atlanta under the, auspices
of the Tappan Tire and Rubber COM
nany. southern representatives of the
| American Akron Tire company. He is
travelling, all over the United United States 4ss
making demonstration nights, IN the
interest of this company. He will re-
main in Atlanta until next Tuesday
and each day will fly with someone
over the city for the purpose OF
dropping one of the balloons with
| free ticket attached.