Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1911 — PIG’S FLIGHT IN AN AREO [ARTICLE]

PIG’S FLIGHT IN AN AREO

|carus, Now Famous Shoat, Was Tat _ken Up in a Machine, Wiping Out Famoua Phrase.

“Pies must fly”—possibly one of the oldest sayings in the English language—now ceases to exist as a phrase for expressing the Improbable. A pig has flown. A small pink pig flew with Moore Brabazon over the Aero club’s grounds at Sheppey, London. Comfortably ehsconsed Is a basket fixed beside the engines, the pig evinced great interest In the proceedings and took to the air so naturally that Mr. Brabazon has .christened it “Icarus the Second.” “I' was shooting in the neighborhood,” Mr. Brabazon said, “when a farmer casually suggested to me that I might take a pig up in my aeroplane, give him a flight and ao accomplish what has so long been proverbially impossible. “Tbs humor of the situation struck me at occe e -jmd we all returned to Leysdcwn village to procure the pig. In the yard of the Rose and Crown we found a litter of seven, and selecting an intelligent looking pig just six weeks old, we carried him off to my machine shed. ‘*My man at once opened the shed and we began preparing the machine, while Icarus the Second sniffed happily around. . “Then, when all was ready, we sat Icarus in a basket alongside the engines and off I went. “It was a short, fast flight, and though he squealed a little to begin with, my four-legged passenger soon quieted down and behaved as if be quite realized the importance of the occasion. Even the proximity of the engine did not distress blm in the least. “When released at the end of the flight Icarus showed no desire to depart, but waddled solemnly ■ back to the shed behind the men pushing the machine.” Icarus Ist already famous in the neighborhood of Sheppey. Scores of the local people visit him at Leysdown, and his owner, G. C. Ward, decided to retain him aa a pet and save him from the Thte which hwaits his six little brothers and sisters.