Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23

was humping over the stabiliser with
his wildly waving hands clutching
nothing but thin air. He pulled the
r1pcord and landed in q cotton field
His pilot, Lieut.. c. E. Duncan, did not
discover until some time later that
ne had lost his passenger.
A slow roll, which gave Lieut.. Gallery
his near-admission to the E. AS was
the medium through which Lieut.. Law
renee J. Carr. Air Corps, became an
elected airman In the Philippines. His
belt broke when the roll was half nm
ished and very suddenly he found him
self flying without the benefit Of his air.
plane, which was some distance away
and rapidly going farther. He landed
IN his parachute in pile Of soft sand
in dry river bed.
Sergt. Fred Roulette of the Indiana
National Guard, like Lieut.. Gallery, also
hooked q shoe in the cowling of an air
plane in which he was flying with Lieut.
Paul A. hartman some years ago. In
Roulette's case, however, he lost the
shoe and went to earth via the para
chute route. Lieut. hartman. having
finished the loop and whip-stall which
elected his observer, turned to ask Rou-
lette how he liked that business and
was startled to find an empty seat. He
spotted the sergeant on his way to safe
ty under a cleaning Alken canopy q
moment later.
Novice Left in Plane.
One elected airman, Capt. D. H.
Young, left behind him In the airplane
from which he so rudely departed, q
novice in the art of flying The novice,
Norman B. Curtice of Cincinnati, as
founded and alarmed when Young fin
ished a loop by shooting out of his seat
into space, took over the dual controls
utes to remember everything he had
ever heard about flying an airplane, at
tempted and got away with landing
at Port Columbus, Columbus, Ohio.
After is male members had joined
the Society of Elected Airmen the first
and only feminine member to date came
along in the person of petite Mildred
Kaufman, who was attempting to es-
tablish a consecutive loop record at
Buffalo, N. Y. She had completed So
loops when her airplane went by-by
and left her looping all by herself. She
had to throw away a couple Of heavy
gloves before she could find and pull
the ripcord and come to safety like q
conventional caterpillar. Miss Kauff-
man attributed her election to the fact
that she was so small she had to sit
on pile Of cushions to reach the con-
trolls. thus necessitating an ineffective
relocation of the safety belt. Miss
Kaufman was later killed in crash.
In his status as near-member Of
the society, Lieut.. Gallery has a COM
rade in the person of Capt Arthur ].
Ennis, Army Air Corps. now on duty
in Texas, but who formerly was sta
toned here in the office of the chief of
the Air Corps. While flying an Army
bombardment plane in the Hawaiian
Islands, Ennis was hurled out of his
seat as the plane struck strong down.
current 81 air over the edge of cliff
He managed to grasp a corner of the
windshield with one hand as he went
out and hung on. feet trailing straight
up in the air while the big plane drop
ped several hundred feet. As it "llit
bottom" and leveled of he fell head
first into the cockpit and was barely
able to get back into his seat and regain
control in time to avoid crash.