Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-23 | Page 1 | Nebraska Doctor Uses Airplane to Call on Patients

Nebraska Doctor Uses Airplane to Call on Patients BEAVER CITY, Neh., May 22. Employment of an airplane as a means of transportation for a physician phy-sician who is called upon to make long distance professional calls was inaugurated here today by Dr. F. A. Brewster, of Beaver City. 'Dr. Brewster's initial flight was made in a Curtiss machine of the biplane bi-plane type with Wade Stevens of Beaver City, a former lieutenant and instructor in the aviation branch of the army, acting as his pilot. Approximately 5000 persons from near-by towns were hero to witness the flight. Shortly after Dr. Brewster made his flight ho received a call to visit I a patient in Kansas. He was mak-I mak-I ing preparations early tonight to make the call in his airplane.