Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1919 — First Flyer [ARTICLE]

First Flyer

Aviation was born ip ancient Greece, observes Camp Kelly Field Eagle. Digging dotvn into the depths of bookery they have found that Icarus was the. 'original boy avliitbr, and though he fell to his death in his first solo flight, there was no flying field named after higi simply because In the golden days of Greek mythology the nations had not gone in seriously for aviation. However, aiaoe there were no fields to

be named, they christened the sea into which he fell the Icarian sea. A board of Investigation appointed 'to investigate the cause of the accidentmade findings that Ike’s wings had come off probably “due to the Intenses heat of tj»e sun melting the wax which held them firmly to his body.”