Show e - '- ''' r set ' i ir Poo" - 3 a ' i - ! ) 1""dr t1 r 41 1 ' S ' I 1 e ' - -- - CURIOSITY brought John to watch crop- dusting Plane in fields near his home iss - - ' " "0 0 n F 1 ':1 7 4 - ' - -- a r $ 4 i i e k '' 'itfi r 4 4v r 1 ' 4 r 7 IV S1 u-- r' ''''''i-f- i — I kt otiktoll 1 I ' I: ‘ t lei r ' - ' — ''- - - A 17'41 re U II I ! I ' ' irto ' '' ' ' ' ' - 66 1 ' L tr ' ioa 1 ' Li i I r 1 - how you felt when you got your first ride on a tire engine? That's how John Keating of Greenville Miss felt when he went up in his first airplane It was a plane used to keep the neighboring cottonfields free from bugs John had been shyly hanging around for days watching it land and take off Finally pilot George Metcalfe said "Want a ride Sonny?" John went to get his mother's permission brought along his father with a camera Result: these pictures of boyhood curiosity wonder fear and final triumph 11 naridsEs Jtt ' i - ' crop-dusti- ng ' I 4004t k ' 1 k ' di v" ' ' --P- (A 4 c 14k 1 ' ? f 0 - e eFA0 "Hey Mal" Johnny bites his lip to suppress his fear as plane thunders before -four-year-o- - finally got his wish to fly ld i-- ' rr ilv t ' - '' elf 1 It 01 t I s "1" ' t 14:i 14'ole' i ' fi1( 1 1 1 4 wtti ' MOVtoolelt 11 19$0 - t ti4 ' cope IS -- psattur rsihrusts EARS began to your mouth" "Open iilot atom GAINING to sw iris tAlietehle Are i Ilh Now Torii IL N 1r AU ground-to-plon- LOA nerve e Illeoetv71 - 1 matt z- t - I l'' ‘ k 1 - ' t airman John looked like this on landing FULL-fledg- i t ed 4 he listened directions Inuanstiwal "- 1 ' I ) 1 0 - ' - Ntr‘ft PILOT Metcalfe invited him to sit at controls fiddle with the radio "Howdia like to go up?" asked Metcalfe "Sure" said John nervously parada 4l'4 i IN ''' a 1 ' 4 1 r 1 at p 2 t r sd i i 0 t c 3 - 3 I 1 take-of- f - 0z T 't I ' A r t y I - I g k - I ' I and Pas Aorfrao CePtrlifill 1a211 1 coweetkos |