Bingham Bulletin | 1930-03-27 | Page 2 | Plane "Blown" from Ice by Another Craft

Plane "Blown" From Ice by Another Craft Chicago. When a party of Canadian Canadi-an explorers and prospectors, flying In a heavily loaded plane, landed on a frozen lake recently they were unable un-able to take off. The wind, which bad been blowing at about 40 miles an hour when they landed a few hours before, had dropped to a dead calm. In vain they tried to give the plane a flying start by placing snow before the skids, but all the big craft would do was to leap into the air and sink heavily to the ice again. As they were about to give np In despair, a second plane landed. There was some talk about transferring part of the first plane's load to the newcomer. new-comer. Tbe pilot of the latter craft, however, declined to take any extra load. "I ll tell you what I'll do," he said. "I'll give you a blow." As no one had heard of a "blow" it was explained. The second plane taxied out to the middle of the lake, followed by the first Faster and faster they went. The second plane rose easily, gracefully, but the pilot held It close to the ice. A little fur ther along the skids of the Prst plane left the Ice. really blown aloft