The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22
Aero Chatter.

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We think we shall move away
from the airport. Living near the
field has its advantages, we admit,
but also disadvantages. For who
cares about seeing all the ships
that come in as they land, or hav-
ing a student dip a wing in greet
ing when there is always to be
heard the drone of an airplane
motor, a barrage of words aimed
a student as he makes a sloppy
approach for a landing, and when
the ribbon cut during the air shows
falls in your yard. And who en-
of seven in the morning to
speed an early bird on his way as
was the case Tuesday morning.
Our eyes half shut, we wandered
to the airport after being ad-
vised that a ship had landed at
$50 and the pilot wanted gas as
as possible, and found that it
was Dabney Codington of Char
lotte, who had flown over from
his farm near Jacksonville in his
Fairchild. The reason for the haste
was that his passenger, DIR. Wiley
Moore, also of Charlotte, was to
perform an emergency operation at
8 o'clock and the pair was hurry
ing to that city as quickly as pos
A quick trip into town
brought Warren Pennington out to
the field to take over from there,
leaving us to try to resume inter-
rupted slumber in vain =. . And
wouldn't 10Y away. It's too much
fun.
The pilots upstate insist that
summer is still with us. When
the Stinson took off from the
beach field OH Labor Day for
the last hop over the beach for
the season, we thought that
airport had been deserted to
the weeds. With ships still
landing there it seems we we're
wrong. Last weekend Jack Da-
Wis of Winston.Salem flew down
for a weekend at the resort.
incidentally Jack, who is a stu
dent at Wake Forest and also
a C. A. B. student, made the
trip from Raleigh in one of the
Aeroncas used in the C. A. B.
pilot training program there.
Yesterday saw a Cub Coupe
flown by Willis Karcher of
Greensboro on the field there
-. All of which seems to say
it's too early for the red flan-
neIs, according to the birdmen.
Club doin's: The Aero club is
quiet but busy these days. With
the model airport safely tucked
away at the Chamber of Commerce,
members are busy at ground school
study, and getting members back
to meetings after the lull in at
tendance during the summer. Ber-
nard Solomon showed some beauti-
full color slides last Wednesday
night, which really took our breath
away. Also two new members have
been added, Troy Johnson and
Frank Crowell. And speaking of
pictures reminds us that Bernard
promised that at a later meeting
he would show color slides of
at the airport and taken
from the air. Dwight McEwen, the
movie camera fan in the gang,
promised that he'd make a night of
it by showing the films of doings
at the field. Well let you know
when the show comes off. In the
meantime drop in some Wednes-
day night at the Chamber of Com
merce for one of the meetings.
Stalls and Stuff: Sunday after
Moons are getting exciting at
the airport as the two local
ladybirds take to the air to
practice formation flying. It
gets to be a habit each Sun.
day at dusk to see the Cubs
over town in a tight reserve
officers formation. Be sure to
keep your eyes peeled skyward
for this evenings flight
Did va see the short short at
one of the local cinemas re-
Gently informing the public
that young America Flies"
Twas all about the C. A. B.
college pilot training program,
but as Bill Belts, C. A. B. i'll
structor, tells us "That amt the
way I see it" . Yep. Bill is
back intOwn again. The rea-
son. a vacation between pro-
grams. He leaves today to start
the fall program soon. to tell a
new group of University of Vir-
ginia dodos for the first time
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