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Show Visibility ends the moment you enter a little cloud. We could see - - 'then we couldn't see any more, and had to depend entirely on the turn and bank indicator to keep level. The fog started to drag us down. Streamers o it clung to the wings and stabilizers. Bits of it wound up on the prop. Our plane was like a moth trying to fly thru fluffy cotton. We were fog bound! Getting fog bound is one of the most embarrassing things that can happen to a private pilot. In severe sev-ere cases the clammy fingers of fog hold the plane in their clutches and there's nothing a pilot can do about it but sit and wait for the sun to melt the cloud, after which he can resume flying. Fortunately, it wasn't that bad for us. By exercise of great ingenuity ingen-uity and skil, Bob, at the controls, got the ship into spinning attitude. Slowly at first, with the aid of gravitation , it twisted its way downward, under full throtte. Then - - - we were in clear air again. This soon cut the shrouds of fog from our wing and prop, and we made an easy flight back to the airport; but you may be sure we dodged all the clouds we saw on the way back.! mance ot early navigation, instrument instru-ment flying and meteorology, aerial aer-ial photography, early theories of 'light and plane design, and oven some works on early ballooning, as far back as the ISth century. FOG BOUND . . . Made a pleasant hypothetical Kight in the Aeronca sedan Sunday Sun-day with a couple of hypothetical guys named Bob Nichols and Lewis DMffi-ngton. Parenthetically, Nate Ward was there too, hypothetical-ly- The sky was filled with , a lot of different shaped clouds, and we decided to go up and see them at close range. Their altitude ranged uom 200 ft. above Delta on up. One gets the strangest "out of this world" feeling when flying among scattered clouds. They slip past your wing tips like wraiths. Their nearness restores the sense of speed you lose in clear air. You brush the gaporous edges of them, get a little moisture on the windshield, wind-shield, then fly into the clear again. ag-ain. ThcJ are in front of you, slip-j slip-j ping past beside you, below you and above you. We picked a thick looking little fog cloud and decided to fly thru it. You can feel it when your plane hits one. Maybe the moisture affects af-fects the plane's engine. You give it carburetor heat, knowing the condensed vapor will ice the ven-turi. 0 Rovers--, rNEWS THAT'S FIT l THE S THE DELTA i'V TZdCK MORRISON . lhe word 40 years n go, 1 ' the From the Files I 'fs ped' into the Wing- 11 ".0 weeks ago and thpv got thel'e nobod-v - iian gues. Things like . -"It slip in unless some-l'C some-l'C in and there's only '.'n around the Chronicle . .?"s;" un a trick like that ,0Ul Toots. Trying to make Sous, no doubt. Of ! ,l n't get away with it. ' "'I 'tias nothing to do with -fa0 ,t is as modern as the nd the super-sonic jet i age at that. Toots' ' , mck didn't fool anybody, ; e shows what kind of a 1 lis to even try it. J!,! ted to expose that wo-my wo-my as soon as I can f Frank Beckwith, writ- ' ,.st Sunday's Tribune, said ' an Indian word meaning ', what do you make of that, U . . . ..ofFS AND LANDINGS . . . ,.e Knight, Cedar City airport .;'Iori new in Sunday for the "ant hunt ..-van R- Morley arrived here "'nek to replace E. E. Lucas -iAMT gang. Morley is a ham. s also a percussionist, mann-, mann-, 'he traps in a Salt Lake outfit, ;;ell as being an AMT. j Carter, his son, Jack, and Brewer of Salt Lake flew; in pheasant hunt last week. They were guests of M. H Work man. Mr. Carter is owner of Interstate Inter-state Truck Lines. They made the flight in a 2 engine Lockheed plane owned by Mr. Carter. An air force DC-3 which was in flight to Hill Field made an emergency emer-gency landing here Nov. 14 due to severe icing conditions encountered encoun-tered over Fairfield. Lewis Buffington and Grant Work man did some night XC flying last week, making a night flight l0 Cedar City Wednesday, and one to Ogden Friday. Joe Thompson of St. George passed pas-sed his flight test for private license lic-ense last week, with Leo Burrast-" on as examiner. Ken Roundy, airport operator at Burley set down here last week. Phyllis Ludlum, instructor, and a student pilot landed during an XC training flight, in a Steerman. Representatives of two contracting contract-ing firms flew to Delta on busin-es busin-es concerned with Highway 6 construction. con-struction. Don Cross piloted a Nav-ion Nav-ion Super 260, of the Isabelle Construction Con-struction Co., of Reno. Gibbons and Reed also sent representatives here by air. B. M. Osborne of LA stopped in in flight to Tooele, last week. FLYING WHITERS ... ' Maybe it wouldn't be too inaccurate inac-curate to refer to them as the sky writers: all those people who have been bitten by both the 'flying bug and the writing bug. Amelia Earhart was one. She was an executive, exe-cutive, editor, writer and lecturer. One of her books was Last Flight. Antoine de St. Exupery, the Fren chman, was another. His novel, Night Flight, is one of the best flying stories. George Stewart is qualified by some of the flying passages in his fine book, Storm. Charles and Anne Lindbergh rank at or near the top with such books as Listen - The Wind, North To The Orient, and Of Flight And Life. (Somehow I can't imagine any of the Lindbergh smearing campaign writing anything to equal Flight And Life.) Eddie Rickenbacker has done his share of good writing and there are many more. Here in Delta, Frank Beckwith, Sr., has found in flying the inspiration in-spiration for many articles, the latest of which appeared in the Tribune's Sunday magazine this week. Entitled The Flying Machine Mach-ine Came To Fillmore, it tells of a flight he made in an early airplane air-plane with Lonnie Kauchamp, the Indian Chief, many years ago. What brought all this to mind was a note in Cross Country News that the first aeronautical book auction in the U. S. will be held in New York Dec. 7. Over 500 seperate lots will be offered including many rare books, photos, documents, etc. There will be autographed volumes by Earhard, Byrd, Rickenbacker, Lindbergh, Santos-Dumont, Lang-ley Lang-ley and others. A few of the subjects sub-jects of the collections are war in the air, historical developments, ro |