Show go BROOKSBY LEARNS TO PILOT AIRPLANE dr alfred brooksby ot of fredonia Fre donla has returned home from california enthus bastio over aviation ai lation dr brooksby accompanied by his eiffe and d his as mother mrs airs W J brooksby and mrs anna 11 judd has been in california tor for a month where the doctor went to study aviation at clover rl field aid santa monica dr brooksby says learning to pilot an airplane ia 1 anything but bat easy and it if anyone Is conceited enough to think otherwise let him got get up in the air and just juat try a tall spit spin after taking a physical examination and other preliminaries dr brooksby was allowed to try and fly As ae says the maneuvers lie he cut were not blow and that people who wore were watching must havo have though he was stunt flying after his first experience lie ho decided that he be had struck something he ha learn however the experience was so BO novel tend and exciting ha wanted to try again and after much more coaching and trials lie finally succeeded in piloting a plane piano with a fair amount of accuracy dr Broc brooksby kaby anticipates buying an airplane in tho the near future fugue ll 11 lie gave them the editor the following facts which he says shows the growth of at flying figures that show the tha enormous strides in the aviation industry pr promises 6 a future development rate noi an even two awo years ye ars ago aeo awen ty five years after the tha first railroad line was was constructed intha in the united states anly I 1 miles were in isopera operation silver twenty five years after the first rat plane flow has just boon been celebrated celebrated ft Y it 4 inda finds miles ot at airways in operation more than 1200 ilyina fields licensed planes and licensed pilots it is estimated th that atthe the air mail this year will show chew moro more than tha n miles ot of flying each day F four our yeara ago the output ot of planes VM vas about ikast estl frh mated that the number will 1111 ha clo aa to sodo 8 quo bad weather seems now to bethe be tho only important hazard in flying and with tho the development of radio it Is not too much to that the aviation companies soon will rob ii if af 0 its terrors I 1 the success of aviation in europe v e and america kni erica Is an incentive gabe to 1 the people of other lands lands the national china la seeing american counsel and assistance in dev develop alop ing a system of national airways edward I 1 I 1 fries vice president s ot of aviation and exploration no now in in shanghai says the governments program Is an admirable one ona china looks more toward commercial com iner cial than military aviation and already has developed skill both in flying nd construction that would do credit to nations with better facilities and greater ex parlance experience dr brooksby Broo kaby has consented to write an article tor for the standard on hla his experiences x por perien lences ces as an aviator which will wil bo published in next weeks issue |