Show AMERICAN AMERICA 14 BOY TE tells lis HOW H 0 W ty HE AIDS AULDS REAT GREAT t AEROPLANE JU 7 WORK IN FRANCE just now when battles in the air are e ut erody 1 and uncle sam la Is speeding up to give giro aid to the allies with airship anything that gives information as to how the air wok is condu conducted ted is s most interesting the follow following lag letter is reprinted because the editor of the news advocate knows who the family of the young soung man who wrote it are and is sure it ii 1 authentic for it came from a good old republican piper it gives inich information tint thit ably many ot 0 our readers have not seen elsewhere following is what norman hill u young lad from nowton iowa writes to his mother from 41 somewhere in france mitor well I 1 am no longer an olve pilot yta a indeed I 1 I 1 tossed all the tests for my brevi 4 in a very successful manner but let mo me tell you all about them of 0 course I 1 have been flying for a good long time perfecting myself by practice until I 1 was ready for the finals among them are foar cross crom country flights two shirt ones of forty miles each during the wo we have to mike inke two landings and dur durins an r the two long ones three landings the short oies olies were thoroughly enjoyable but quite uneventful I 1 did both of them tho the sime morning besides makinde m otil ofil cial from an of 1 1500 GOO feet linding 1 without hie the use of my iny at t n r given spot then I 1 started on my first long vage from avord which is near tho the old La cathedral town of i bourger to Chateau roux tin and return you can casil easil find these places in t dentral frince on any tiny fair sided mp it wa j ft a glo ilous day and I 1 kept climbing climb lne higher and until I 1 W was 13 incie mote than 1000 foot feet u up 1 11 ly the time I 1 wa wai ovi bourges it is ig ian in pu po sible for forn it e to tell iou 3 ou how beau ticul the cou countey aldo vaa as seon from that height in franco france the ll il laes lages are re ho u picturesque with their red loot ed houses and winding streets and tind the roads road i and nd rivers and cin ila ils ire lined with line old trees aiom my I 1 could easily thit I 1 j waa was looking down on i toy orld one built wilt by santa claut claw for all till good Lh ildren to possess and enjo jit it alwais gives me iho the oddest sensation to look down 0 oct ei the sido of 10 my tuy machine and to see nothing be tween mo me and the bartu b but 1 f several hundreds of thousand of awat of apace space I 1 worder why my weight i dor overbalance over lalance tho the mit duchine chine and send mo me tumbling tum bline down heels ovla head bead and then I 1 remember my nio tor it mcinne ig ro iring so that I 1 can shout aloud and anti sc scarcely heir hear the sound of iny my own voice and tho the wind ig whine rushing past ie ille at such a pace that I 1 c tnt hold out in arm k against it it Is the speed spee d tint keeps keep mo me coins going so comfor tabi labb I 1 look at in pied counter and I 1 see that it 95 93 kilometers in hour just about GO 60 miles mile after I 1 had circled around bournes I 1 hid a race roce with ith a tiala a it coping ct childs toy it seemed I 1 easily passed it and soon it if aas far ne hind me I 1 reached almost I 1 realized zed it there I 1 had my cipera filled ilpo iny my michin in i with ith ga caoline oline and oil and started IV for romor antin on this lap of roy my journey I 1 climbs J to feet and was hitting it off veri merrily due roith r oi th checking olt off the roads to ri aher er forests etc c a my mip in ip ai I 1 pisses p issen over them and then luddeni sud deni up came u an april storm but it was all beneath bene ith me I 1 was in full costume looking don ou on a sea of clouds that pirt of it was aas quite to my likin liking 11 1 1 but what vas ras not quite so pleasant I 1 lost loit all sight of earty and had to depend en tirel ajr on my compass B the time tha the storm had passed I 1 was reidy to come down to romorantin Ro but the atle city wn wai not to be found further more inore I 1 could not place on my map any of the country which I 1 saw under me at that time I 1 had bad descended to 1600 1500 feet in order to SQ gel a betti view evidently I 1 was az a little off my course and so 1 I selected a very attractive looking little A till vil villine lize ize out of a score or more which were in sight below ne rie and decided to land in tho the f fields near it in lit order to inquire my way welt well I 1 wish you could have wit nes my reception I 1 the rhe entire village cime flocking out to see me the b biker bler ler the cun cur tho the all of the old oki people und and hundred sI will Wai about toniy to sy ml millions lins of call children my bly french fench is improving impi oving but it is 1 iona ione too good and nd I 1 had to confess that I 1 was not a frenchman bilal was I 1 then an american I 1 told them an american I 1 I 1 I 1 oh lordy I 1 lordy I 1 thought they were werl all going crazy I 1 could have had the to ton as a sift gift if I 1 bad had wanted it they made madr a tremendous fu fus 5 over me I 1 learned that I 1 was not very far off my t and so after chatting with my loyal subjects for fora a few minutes I 1 started my motor again and away I 1 went up over the roofs of the houses and the church spire and straight on N N E rom the journey from romor antin to avord waa was very interesting the sky was tilled filled with those creat pill up heaps oi 01 april appl clouds louk so beautiful from the aroun ground d but it is not ao bo pleasant plea sint s silling among them tho the cloud bank x tended from 1800 to 2000 meters but at last I 1 climbed until I 1 was clear of them all about feet above the ground there wre were great grea trenta rent s in them thra through gh which 1 I could look down and sec see the atil thus I 1 managed to keep on w ma course without too greit dy tho the time tim c I 1 h hid id re reached ached camp again I 1 had been lying flying for just a half lioni hout above 2000 meters so I 1 min tinta tp up for mother half hour und and thui I 1 did ditt my altitude teat test ot ori the lilt gnp of ml triangle sly my second lom low right was wa dit different Terent from the mat in 10 11 I 1 hd had to fight ight the wind all the way Ms machno was as up tind and down anil tipped this thit way and that dhring tho the whole rquincy jouis cy hut but it IVA at how bow I 1 quiet and c cilen ilal it would bo be in thu the air at SO tie altitudes and how rough at otecia s tha the all alt curi anti seem to bi bf in laneis one poor follow who started on the coatney with me smashed his machine on tho the lauding acain ut tit avord ho lie wis w is not hurt at all I 1 rot got lack safely and und when I 1 WAS sioeli on the ground I 1 breathed i L really feriend fent nt th ink the lord I 1 h id nover been up in such rough weather before nd I 1 w is very in finish my ork without hav ing tin accidents to in machine 1 J did this and my moni deurs gild some deiy nice thines things about me I 1 am no nov cliine a ne new type of mi chine that is ig it Is nc now foi tot me it is an immer se thine thing with t tau vo 90 hoi hoche he powe motors tho the roar of them strikes aso ao into the soul of the no 10 vice like myself and when you got get into the car and st art off well ell aou ou feel as aan an ant might havil ha vit s jo ride in nn tho bill of an ea eagle eale le I 1 had five rides in it erda double corn com di ni did ind th thit it la is with 1 teut ann and then they considered mo inn competent enough to take the machine up alone I 1 wis is just a bit nervous but of course I 1 kt pt m mi feeling to myself and climbed up to my in scat seat between th motors e i ab all the nouha now balance lanco of an old pilot As soon as I 1 got into the air hever hw ever I 1 all right and had no difficult at all but I 1 was kept fairly busy for I 1 had never before flown in a machine aching til with two motors no doubt you an are N on crine dering when I 1 hill in be going to the front of course I 1 don know precisely but I 1 J cm give gie you some idea I 1 have hav e ibous a week to work ork before me here and then I 1 am to bo ba sent to a school near pans parts to learn how to fly a new type of hue huge battle plane I 1 have expect 0 1 1 all n along to bo be perfected perfect el on I 1 the nieuport biplane a small angle ange passenger scout in which tha pilot is his own machine gunner nearly all of the americans who hao we gone to the front have be ben been en eiven given machines of this t ape pe but now for some unknown reason two of us who have just been breveted are to have this now biplane bi plane which carries cam ea three passengers two machine besides the pilot and five fire machine iachine guns two for e each ach of the gunners eunner sand and one for the pilot I 1 naturally I 1 an quite excited over the prospect of piloting a real floi floating ting battleship its satar too mother thin flying alon irin for you have two gunners with you of course the responsibility is creator greater for you have hive their alvo in you hands whereas in the nieuport 3 ou have haw kiil your own I 1 shall very like be in trai tiff ir a month mouth perhaps longer oi thib thit mi ma chine which will mean blat I 1 TO go to the front the itter litter l vil pit t 0 of june next icek there ire are sixty rus siang coming here for training 1 we already belgians 11 a am ain eri elcans cans a few C tn idia i and austra lians haus regular 1 congress con eress of nations it Is a very I 1 irge school with in inina iny dirl divisions ions ever type of army aeroplane is in use here on L fine day the air etith ith machines und and one must keep on ora the alert every minute one is in the air time to go to work heaps of love to all an the ra family xiii norm april 30 10 1917 1017 6 |