The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-12
Aero Chatter

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Plenty people began wondering
about the odd clouds that began to
form Wednesday evening, but upon
looking closer discovered them to
be the work of Coffin, the sky
writer. AS we watched him spell
ing out the mile-long letters, we
thought of the National Air Races
and the acrobatics with smoke
that one of ne stunt pilots per-
formed. No foollng, we learned
that a colored preacher decided to
use the sky writing as his text to.
day And the story is going
around the airport that one of the
boys almost put some of the Ie
micals used in forming the letters
in his car, mistaking it for gaso-
line. But we know that his secret
ambition is to learn skywriting!
And that might be a beginning . .
. On Saturday people craned necks
and gazed upward with gaping
mouths again at the flying adver-
tisement. That fellows good at it.
Don't be surprised if you see pic
lures taken at the local airport
in Life magazine sometime in the
near future, for Thursday two
photographers of that publication
flew down and while waiting
around snapped several pictures OF
the goings on. They told us that
they are on ar aerial tour of the
country, taking pictures for an
article entitled Seeing America
From the Air" that will appear
in that magazine soon. The start
ing point of the trip was New
York, and their travels will take
them to California by the South.
ern route then back to New York
by way of Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin. The Stinson company fur
nished a 1910 Stinson los for the
cross country wanderings. That's
really a nice ship.
Club doin's: The Aero club
elected a new vice-president upon
the temporary resignation of Al.
bert Wooten, who has been hold.
ing down that job. Burke Render
will. do the honors while Albert
spends the summer elsewhere
than at the field Most of the
club members will be in Colds
boro today, for Saturday they
deserted this field to drive or fly
to attend the Carolina Aero club
banquet and air show. We recall
the show at Goldsboro last veal
when more than half the local pi
lots turned up there and every
one gathered under the wing of the
Cub While there members o.
the club and of the J i o ]
Chamber of Commerce will extene
an invitation to the Carolina Aero
club to spend the week end o.
June 81 here. That will really helK
put this airport on the map.
Model builders, don't forget thu
regular meeting of the Mode
Aero club at the Y tomorrow
night at 8. Why don't some of 20,
older model fans turn out fol
these meetings.
Your scribe got an unexpected
shower Friday afternoon at thu
dedication of the seaplane floa'
when she swung a bottle of cham
payne CD against the float at thu
christening. And the contents hit
their mark and her too We're
glad that the city finally secured
the float and it will be a decided
advantage to them The Pen
nington Flying Service really
made a swell showing at the cere'
monies, with both the Cub and the
sky writer lined in with a neat
Stinson flying overhead, and the
little smoke display. We thought
a nice gesture was the dropping
of flowers from the Cub We're
glad we were there for after see.
ing the Coast Guard Grammar
land at the field, we wished quite
often we coul6 see an amphibian
on the water. The presence of the
Navy Grammar added quite a bit
of color to that dedication.
Slips and Spins: The high al.
titude bug has bitten one of the
students, for when he flies, instead
of shooting landings or wandering
over the county, he disappears
hcavenward above the field. Mon
day he climbed to about Is, 00C
feet. Well, that's getting above
our heads The Coast Guard
Grammar turns out to be the early
bird with several early morning
visits to the field last week !,
Other visitors included. Billy Cod.
ington of Charlotte in his Waco
Custom Frank Haynes of that city
in an Aeronca, both having flown
over fro Billy's farm lar Jack.
sonville. A Cub coupe owned by a
Greensboro flying club has been
at G-e. field several days A
TALL with n of the members of