Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-08

plane, all right, but they were afraid
to tinker with the machinery and
so we sailed away without a hitch.
Automobiles are not always so easy
to get away in"
Incidentally, Mr.. Goembe1 and his
bride are searching for luggage
which was removed from the plane
over the weekend.
Luggage Missing
1--WE had about ESQ pounds of lug
gage-entirely too much to lug away
from the plane at every stop" ex-
planned the flyer. when we went
out to the field Monday afternoon,
some of our personal effects and
quite few tools had disappeared.
Perhaps the person or persons who
took this stuff thought the plane
had been abandoned. I'm hoping for
it's return"
The field in which the landing was
made is about 800 by 400 feet and
| is located in East Atlanta, off the
Soldiers Home car line.
'"They> told us to look out for a
landing field in the center of race
track" Mrs. Goembel stated. 1'About
| the only race track we saw was at
| Lakewood, circling around a body
of water, and you know we haven't
| a hydroplane.
so we picked out9 this field, be-
cause it seemed our chance. And
somebody took my boots out of the
| ship and now I haven't anything tc
| plough through that mud in"
The couple said they were the first
persons to. visit Mammoth Cave, in
Kentucky, by airplane.
1--WE flew 5000 feet above the
ground, circling over the cave and
| then we went down Echo river
which is $50 feet underground, add
ed the bride. at was dark in there
too dark for me land I'll take my
5000 feet above ground any time ir
preference to being $50 feet under
| ground.
Saw Lots of "Stills"
"And we saw lots of stills flying
over Kentucky. It's easy to spot
them from a ship. You see the
smoke curling up and you can dis
tinguish the barrels and all the par
Eaphernalia very easily. Prohibition
agents ought to try the air method
1--WE didn't see many stills il
Georgia, however," she added, an
Mr.. Goembel cut in with the re
mark that Judging from the news
papers, they are making a grea
deal of the whisky inside the
houses"
"Phil used to fly over and makt
dates by aeroplane," Mrs. Goembe
declared, telling Of their courtship
81 remember once in Seville, wher
I walked out Of a grocery store ant
saw everyone pointing UP at
plane. Then the ship swooped dowr
low over the square and Phil call
ed to me that he would be over tt
see me that night"
"Then, too, up in GAINESVILLE
Tenn, Phil took a fellow and hi
girl thirty miles to see the youns
mans parents. 1t took only II II
minutes but he had the wind a
Experienced Flyer
| Mr.. Goembel is an experienced
flyer, having served three years il
the army aviation corps and more
recently having been attached to al
aviation field at Medina, Ohio. HI
was graduated from Wooster col
lege, in Wooster, Ohio, with a 3
S. degree. His wife also attended
that institution.
He was asked why he decided tc
attend Tech.
Because I had heard it was one
of the best engineering schools in
the country, and because I wanted
to come south, where I could dc
/ commercial flying and pay my way
through school," he replied.
Mr.. Goembel has a three-seated
Waco plane of the commercial type
a ship which is capable of making
about ninety miles an hour in still
air, he said.
Tuesday morning the couple were
out at the Moreland avenue field, set
ting up the partially dismantled ship
and wishing fervently for a change
in weather which would permit then
to move the ship.