The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-16
First Sky Ride Given to
Harold Judd in Stand
ard Oil Plane.
BY ELDORA FIELD

II you were a boy what is the
most fascinating experience you
would choose to come to you? Go
ing up in an airplane, Of course.
Harold Judd, 20, of 767 De Quincy
ST., son OF Mr.. and Mrs. G.. j.
Judd, is lucky youth who went
up 2,400 feet Monday afternoon,
viewed the city just as Indy saw
it and today is delightedly unravel-
ing multiplicity Of impressions of
"how it feels to be up in the air."
Harold is first class Boy Scout,
having taken all but athletic honors
Che has been a cripple for eight
years. so of course he wasn't afraid
"but my, it feels sort of queer and
light inside, as if you were feather
floating around" he says, land did
like flying? Those few minutes
were the most wonderful have
ever lived
Guest of Standard Oil Co.
The boy was the guest of Yelling
ton A. Jones, Chicago, and John c.
Marshall, Indianapolis, representa-
tives of the Standard Oil Company
and the plane was the Stanolind,
the companys official plane. The
ride had been arranged for, follow
ing story in The Times about the
boys bravery in his suffering and
Lindberghs greeting of him the day
The latter was in this city.
THE first big thrill of the ride,
said Harold. was when the earth
seemed suddenly to fall away from
us and we realized we were actually
in the air. A grayish bird was fly
ing far down and to the east of us
that was the shadow of the plane.
1--WE were rising constantly, but
I recognized the Emrichsville bridge
From then on, except at intervals
a world knew and yet didn't know
stretched out below. Pretty -colored
playing blocks - no, they were
houses of course, the bright roofs oil
them. Baseball diamonds. All, Babe
Ruth was playing today. How
ridiculously unimportant e, homer
suddenly seemed, just a pin-point Of
distance if Babe threw the farthest
one of his career.
Monument "Gray Finger"
THAT shiny ribbon, a strip o.
curling tinsel from some lady's dres.
Fall Greek; green velvet pin.
cushions, groups of trees. Some one
said, Fairgrounds" but before !
could find them, I saw a miniature
horse shoe, the round house al
Brightwood."
Then the next great thrill: was
looking down at the business dis
trict of toy city. 1t was beine
nodded before our eyes, gray clay
with finger prints of color; the
Chamber Of Commerce, an upright
postage stamp of corn-yellow. the
Statehouse roof, tiny dab of svivio
green. Then I got the biggest sur
prise of the trip. The monument
great shaft upon which I have SC
often gazed with awe, had become
only gray finger-and not bis
one at that"
More Flights Today
"A child's erector set built in the
center of sand pile; that was the
structural iron Of the new Memorial
building; a wee salmon can on q
box, which turned out to be the fire
tower on the Merchants Bank Bldg
A tall building, like comb Of
honey, its windows. the tiny honey
cells. Then more impressions-Il
be days unfolding them in my mind
Tiny bugs, autos; pencil tracings
railroad tracks; green postage
stamps, lawns, fields"
The Stanolind attracted much at.
tention Monday as it passed owe,
the city The plane is all-metal arc
can carry ten passengers. 1t made
three trips up in the air Monday
carrying thirty passengers. Amonf
these were Senator Arthur Robinson
William Mayborn, Robert 1. Todd
e. G. Atkins, Norman A. Perry, H
S. Swanson. Five flights were SEIZED.
uled for today. The plane vii
leave Wednesday and will cove
points in ten middle western an(
western States.