Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-05-02

who all she mad
been taken for in her travels.
If there was a plane suffered a force
landing on your farm. and you saw a
woman get out of it you would naturally
think 1t was Mrs Roosevelt. (By the
way these last were not Amelias jokes;
they are mine. You can pretty near tell
that. Mr. Lindbergs mother, she was
very modest. She dident say she had
been taken for the Col, but we all know
she has.
Where she shines in her talks are
after her regular routine is over. She
asks anyone to ask questions, and do
you know where the intelligent ques-
tions come from? They are from the
young kids in the audience. How many
revolutions per minute do you general.
ly fly your plane on the hazardous
trips ?" Twill these landing islands they
talk of in the ocean be practical?" do
you fly by a radio beam, or by tuning in
on some radio station and use 1t as your
SuiuCs dionn pCopiC iutoSiohS ~
comparison to those by older people.
"Do you think women's place is in
the air 2" Does your husband mind you
hying?" What would you do il you
come DOWN." Il went up one time and
got sick. What should | have done?"
asked one woman. Amelia said, What
did you do? That's what you should have
done"
Wiley Post, just about king of EN- all,
cant break records getting to New York
in a six-year-old plane, no matter II he
takes 1t up so high that he coasts in.
Equipment and engines change too fast.
That Winnie May should be right In
all the other historic planes. Its already
done more than any plane in the
World. Twice it has broken records
clear around the world, broken alti-
tude records. He has thrown off his
wheels and has forced landings on his
Belly" And she never breaks a thing.
Six years; that's the greatest advertise
ment for aeroplane safety the world
has ever seen.
So when Wiley gets ready to put
the Winnie May into the Smithsonian
we all want to give him a hand. Its his
own plane, you know. That's all he got
out of two hazardous trips around the
world was that old ship. Lord, last Sum
mer when the family and were days
and days and days by train crossing
Siberia we would come to towns with
great long names. and they would re-
mind us of places where we remembered
Wiley landed at on his crossing OF Rus.
STA. All alone, couldent speak a word OF
Russian, land at a field, and he couldent
tell EN- a thing in the world. What ever
he waiSed done in the way Of some
minor work on his ship he couldent tell
EN-. He would have to do 1t when he
hadent been asleep for a couple OF days.
One place he wanted a drink Of water.
Said he never was as thirsty In his life.
but they couldent understand, and from
his motions and actions, they thought
he wanted liquor, or vodka. Well they
had the welfare OF his trip at heart and
wanted to do all they could. (And he
says they were wonderful to him On
both trips across there. They are great
aviation enthusiasts. the Russians). So
he was sleeping Jul in a shed at the
hangar. and they left soldier on guard
to watch him, and wake him for an
early start. Well he was dying for a
drink, and he kept making signs, and
the soldier kept saying and motioning
mo. MOI"
He was trying to tell him that liquor
would not be good for him. Finally the
soldier seemed to get so mad thai he