Show eureka boy describes De his experience in the air sa the following very interesting let ter telling his parents about his ex per lences in the air was written by frank russell who Is now stationed at the flying field at osseo minn the young man is the son sorl of mr and mrs D J hussell russell he has been in the service of ancle sam tor for several months first being sent to one of the texas training camps and then to the minnesota camp dear father and mother I 1 have been waiting tor for a letter tor an age it seems although I 1 sup pose it Is only a couple of weeks I 1 am out at the field now and hav been here for a week I 1 have hal hai three flights already and belle believe e me it is the only real sport I 1 have been above five thousand feet each time and yesterday I 1 was up seven thousand two hundred feet it Is an experience that is worth all the un pleasant part of this life if it were the only thing I 1 should ever realize my experience in the army I 1 don t think there Is anything in the world that can compare with the view 0 of the country obtained from an airplane especially this country here it is just like a great big park with wit h hundreds of lakes and streams scat seat about it I 1 could see right down through the water in the lakes and rivers and see everything on the bottom it is just like looking at a great big map of the country and be ing able to trace every road stream and railroad for many miles then we flew over the twin cities and they are surely beautiful I 1 had an experience yesterday when I 1 was up that every one don t get when we left the ground ev grything ery thing was clear and nice except tor for some clouds in the southern sky we started to the north and travel ed twenty or thirty miles climbing all the time we passed over hun deeds of farms and tour four or five coun try towns ft and then we made a big circle to the east and passed over the mississippi we could see every thing in it and up and down its length tor for fifty or sixty miles then we turned south continuing to climb all the time and passed over minneapolis at feet altitude pretty soon we began to near the clouds that we had seen before we started we then commenced to climb very rapidly and soon reached feet and far below us were the clouds while we were in brightson bright tsun sun light we could see that it was storming down there because the sun reflected on it and it looked to me like rain just then the lieutenant cut oft off the motor so I 1 could hear bear him and asked me what it was I 1 N said it was rain and he laughed and said it was snowing then he start ed a 9 long spiral dive and we dropped two thousand feet and sure enough we found ourselves in a terrific snow storm and we were covered in just a minute next we dropped an f other thousand feet and found our selves below the clouds in perfectly calm air again then we flew north beyond the edge of the clouds and started to climb again and soon we were up to feet again then we started for camp and I 1 had the fastest ride 1 I 1 ever dreamed of hav ing we traveled tra w meled miles an hour for ten minutes and looking down we could see the camp right below us without any naming arning the lieu tenant cut oft off the motor add nosed the ship over and we went into a nose dive straight down for three thousand feet say if you ever want wan t a sensation you can try that I 1 don t think there are any words that can can describe the feeling but I 1 felt just like I 1 was all head and feet it felt like there was nothing in be tween at all after dropping three thousand feet that way he turned into a long spiral and we came down and finally glided onto the field with no more jar than riding on a road in an automobile I 1 am expecting to get to go 90 up u p again tomorrow and they can t take me too soon or too often to suit me I 1 don i know what I 1 am going to do after I 1 leave the field whether I 1 ft ill be an instructor at the school as I 1 expected or not that is just as much as we can tell where we will be from one day to the next when I 1 came here all the other r men who had been selected for instructors were sent out oa 01 here at the same time and today a big bunch of regi lar instructors came out and they don t know any more than we do why when or where it is getting pretty cold here now and it is rather uncomfortable liv ing in tents especially since they haven t any wool clothes here nothing but khaki which we have been wearing all summer what wool clothes we had last winter are about worn out you know the gov eminent has not been issuing any wool clothes in this country but have been sending them all to france but I 1 think they must have forgotten how cold it gets up here in the winter I 1 am acquainted with one of the boys of the quartermaster depart ment merit and he says he doesn doean t know of any wool clothes coming here so far but I 1 guess we will make out all right the Y M C A man Is waiting for me to stop as it Is late and my fingers are pretty numb so I 1 will haye have to quit the Y al C A is a tent here and is the only jonly one that has a lamp in it so we come here to write I 1 will be waiting anxiously tor for a letter your ovong son frank |