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Show Future Air Aces Practice Flying Over Old Trail Aviation cadets winging high across the Oklahoma prairies are having a new and educational thrill. For cross country navigation training trips from the army flying school at Enid, Okla., cover territory terri-tory which 70 years ago echoed with the pounding hoofbeats and rousing cowboy songs of the famous "Old Chisholm Trail." During the last few weeks of their basic flight training here, the student stu-dent pilots take off cross-country, "on their own," just as in the "seventies" their grandfathers were on their own before them. But to the cadets the "now-and- j then" experiences are not comparable. compara-ble. Practicing zooms and dives in their trim BT-15 aerial steeds is far superior to sitting a wildly bucking buck-ing "bronc." ; The famous trail, founded by Jesse Chisholm ill 18G5, was the route across the Indian Territory Terri-tory from northwest Texas to Abilene, Kan., the railroad shipping ship-ping point. Over it thousands of cattle were driven annually from the free grass country to , supply the East with beef. It was the roughest and the tough- j est of cattle trails. On it murders and robberies occurred frequently. Indians occasionally waylaid herdsmen herds-men and demanded tribute, and about it the famous cowhand song, "The Old Chisholm Trail," was written. Aviation cadets are making the welkin ring over the old historic marker. In their silver monoplanes they look down on the same prairies that formerly were tramped |