Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1927 — Page 6

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Life Story Os Captain Charles A. Lindbergh NEW YORK-TO-PARIS FLYER IS NO SUPERMAN, BUT JUST A NORM AL AMERICAN YOUTH WHO HAS THREE OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICS, NAMELY, COMPLETE MASTERY OF HIMSELF, DIRECTION IN LIFE AND GREAT COURAGE.

Captain Charles A. Llndebergh got that heist friends among aviators believe to be the only real fright ot his life in 1924 when at Fowler. Colorado, with a “Flying Circus". It was largely fear for the safety of two men who were riding with him as passengers. "We had come to Fowler to give an exhibition." said Captain J. Wray Vaughn, who was managing the "Flying Circus." “Lindbergh was our great stunt pilot at the time and he was giving the people plenty of thrills. "Two men came to the field and wanted to he taken up. Lindbergh / cordingly hopped off with them. I* was late afternoon. “The ship had harly left the ground when a nasty wind storm blew up. the wind holwled and Lindbergh, with his two passengers circled over the field, but that it would be dangerous to land in such a blow. So he went tip higher and higher to keep out of the danger zone, and before th? storm abated it was pitch dark. "The field where we were flying was small. It was not a regular flying field, but just a big open space which had been turned over to us for our exhibition work, in it were two haystacks and several trees. In dayligh' a pilot as skilled as Lindbergh could land and take off with perfect safty but at night it was a different matter. Flares were not easily available in those days and lighting such a field was an almost unknown practice in that region. "So, while the field might be all right in daylight, it was about the last place in the world to pick for landing at night. ‘"The wind was still pretty heavy and the night was pitch black. I didn’t know what was going to be done about it. I knew he couldn’t stay aloft for ever. He had to come down sometime. “So 1 moved up three automobiles and directed their headlights so they would outline, although perhaps weakly, the boundaries ot the field and

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t show up the haystacks ami the trees. " "Lindbergh was watching and pretty s soon he began coming down. He clrcled around, looking the situation all ) over, and then dropped low and made a perfect landing. i “The two passengers got out and were enthusiastic about the splend’d t ride Lindbergh had given them. They thought the long trip was a part of t our generosity and they probably don t > know to this day that only unusual skill and cool-headedness on the part 1 of Lindbergh saved their lives. "But Lindbergh got out of the plane. ' came over to me anil said. “ ‘You can put that down in the 1 book—in all my flying experience that . is the first time 1 ever was scared.’ ” i Lindbergh had joined Vaughn after ‘ going to St. Louis from his Little Falls > home where he had rested after his » first year or so of following the coun- • ty fairs in the Rocky Mountain states, i Vaughn had taken him back to the west. "I wired Lambert field in St. Louis one day that I needed a pilot for a summer stunt tour through the west," Vaughn said telling how he and Lind- ■ bergh met. "I told them I wanted a pilot with plenty of nerve and one who knew his business. They replied that they were sending Lindbergh. I’d never heard of him before. "So 1 went down to the station in Denver, Colo to meet him. I expected to see a regulation trick airman all dressed up in an aviators uniform. "I stood on the station platform scanning the crowd trying to pick out someone who looked like an aviator, 1 noticed a tall, gangling kid in a misfit,blue suit about three sizes too small He wore an old cloth cap and carried a card-board suitcase and a duffle bag. "The crowd thinned out. but I couldn't find my pilot anywhere. The kid kept hanging around like he was looking for someone and after while he and J were about the only ones left. Then he came up to me and said hesi-

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tatingly: " 'Are you Captain Vaughn?" "I said that I was. I " I'm Lindbergh”, the kid said. "I looked him over ami again said to myself ‘those fellows down In St. ’ Louis are slipping me something. If this kid is ti pilot I'm a horse.' "But the first time I saw him in the air I knew I was wrong. There never ’ was another like him.” . Lindbergh remained with the Fly ing Citcus until late in 1924 when lie decided to take the army training course in aviation and became a ref serve flier. So .one day, he got into his plane and flew to Brooks Field, Texas to en--1 roll as a flying cadet. 1 “1 remember when he camo.” said Sergeant I). Wood, of Brooks Field, 1 "He had an old dilapidated StandI ard bi-plane with most of the fabric . gone from the lower half of one wing, f But that didn’t seem to bother Lindt bergh any. He handled it just as well 1 as if the wing were sound. t "He was a quiet, unassuming chap, who seldom went to town and was al- , ways studying. He completed his primary training ■ at Brooks Field in September, 1924. t and went to Kelly Field. Can Antonio ''to attend the Advanced Flying School. • It was while flying there that he made i the first of his famous parachute ; jumps when his plane was disabled - in that most tare and spectacular of , accident —an aerial collision. . “1 felt a slight jolt followed by a clash," Lindbergh wrote in his official 1 i repott of the accident. "My head was thrown forward against the cowling ’ and my plane seemed to turn around ■ and hang nearly motionless for an instant. I closed the throttle and saw i an SE-5 plane with Lieut McAllister in the cockpit, a few feet on my left. He ■ was apparently unhurt and getting ready to jump. "Our ships were locked together. < My right wing was folded back. The i ships started to mill around and the ‘ wires began whistling. The right wing j commenced vibrating and striking my head at the bottom of each vibration. 1 "I climbed out and jumped back- 1 wards, as far as I could. "I was afraid the planes might fall on me so I did not pull the cord of my 1 parachute until I had dropped several ! hundred feet. ‘ “1 saw Lieut. McAllister floating above me and the wrecked ships about jl 100 yards to one side. 1 watched then, 1 until still locked together, they crash- ( ed in the misquite and burst into |

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