Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1928 — Page 5

FEB. 21, 1928.

COL.CHAS. A. LINDBERGH’S OWN LIFE STORY

THE STOKY SO FAR Lindbergh completed his education at the University of Wisconsin, where he became interested in aviation. He entered a flying school and later joined a barnstorming outfit nad learned parachute jumping and wing walking. He bought a Government airplane for SSOO and made his first solo flight at Americus, Ga. lindy decided to fly to Texas by direct air line against the advice of more experienced pilots. He made a safe landing the first night at a Government field, but the next night made a hazardous landing in a soft field near Meridian. Miss. \ crowd gathered, and Lindbergh offered air rides for $5 each. Avery heavy man accepted, and the weighted plane missed a fence by three feet in taking off under the load. Lindbergh left Meridian for Texas, but got lost and descended in a field 125 miles from Meridian. A hidden ditch in the field spelled disaster, and the propeller was broken. Lindbergh was unhurt. After repairing the plane, he had a rushing business in passenger carrying. After carrying a few passengers at $5 each, he left Meridian for Texas, but got lost and crashed in a hidden ditch after landing in a field. Lindbergh repaired the plane and had a brisk business in passenger carrying. Lindv took up an old southern Negro as a passenger and "stunted*' for the admiration of the crowd and to the terror of the Negro. Rain and mud forced him from this field and he took off for Texas. Lindbergh crashed and broke another propeller near Shakopee, Minn., while flying from Lincoln. Soft ground caused the “roll over.” Lindbergh’s father took his first flight at Marshall and later went with his son on his campaign. Sirs. Lindbergh became an enthusiast after her first flight at Janesville, Minn. Lindy applied for enlistment as a cadet at Brooks Field and was told to report for examination at Chanute Field, Rantoul, HI., in January. 1924, While waiting, he went barnstorming over Wisconsin and then headed for Lambert Field to see the air races. Bud Gurney, a friend, jumped from Lindy’s plane in the parachute landing contest and broke his arm. CHAPTER VIII. WHEN the period of instruction was completed I flew the old Jenny up to my student's home in lowa and, after watching him make a few solo flights from his home field, I left on a train for Lincoln. My last sight of the old Jenny was as it passed 200 feet over the station near the center of town — and my parting instruction had been to keep a safe gliding angle when over the city, and under no circumstances to come below 1,500 feet. I went to Lincoln to get an S. V. A., which is a two-place Italian pursuit plane, and fly it back to St. Louis. But on arriving I learned that it was in the old Pulitzer Field near Omaha and in questionable condition. It was reported that some cows had eaten all the fabric off the rudder. Cows and mules are fond of the fabric covering, and it is not uncommon to hear of a plane being completely stripped by these animals in a few minutes. On the other hand, I have left a machine unguarded in the same pasture with cattle for days without having them touch it. And during the two weeks I spent at Maben, Miss., there had been a number of mules in the same pasture with my ship, yet they apparently never came near it. We filled the back of a touring car with anew rudder and other spare parts and drove to Omaha the next morning. The S. V. A. was in even worse condition than had been represented. In addition to needing a new rudder, part of the lockstitching had broken in the wings, and as a result the fabric was very loose. The radiator had developed a. number cf leaks, which someone had attempted to stop by dumping in a pailful of bran. And when we eventually did get it started, the engine skipped badly and would not "rev'’ up over 1,100 R. P. M. At last we decided to attempt to fly the ship to Lincoln, where it ■would be much more convenient to work on it, and I took off with a sputtering motor and with the contigrade five degrees below boiling. At the end of five minutes the needle was crowding the peg at 115 degrees, and in fifteen minutes the water expansion tank exploded. I landed in a Stubblefield and hired the farmer to hitch his team to the ship and haul it to a fence comer next to his house, where I left, it to be taken apart and hauled to Lincoln by truck. T passed the month of December barnstorming in Illinois, and in January went to Chanute Field to take the entrance examinations for a flying cadet. On one occasion while at Lambert Field I had made a short flight into the Ozark foothills with Leon Klink,

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an automobile dealer who had bought a Canuck that fall and was just learning to fly it. After I returned from Chanute Field and was waiting for the results of my examinations, we decided to make a pleasure flight through the South, barnstorming only enough to make current expenses, if possible. Klink wanted to learn to fly, and at the same time take a vacation, while my only objective was to keep flying and at the same time be ready to enter the next class at Brooks Field, which commenced in March, provided my examinations had been passed satisfactorily. Accordingly, on the 23d of January we took off from Lambert Field in 5 below zero weather and headed for the sunny South. Our first stop was at Perryville, Mo., where we visited with some of Klink’s friends for several days, and carried nineteen passengers. After leaving Perryville, we flew to Hickman, Ky., and landed in a soft field east of town. We had passed out of extremely cold weather and the wheels of our plane sank several inches into the Southern mud. When we had refueled and attempted to take off it was impossible to get enough speed to lift the tires out of the mud. So Klink got out and I tried to take off alone. On the third attempt the ship gained enough speed for the wings to begin to carry a portion of the load and keep the wheels from sinking so deeply; then it was only a matter of a few more feet before I was off. I picked out a hayfield a little further from town, which appeared to be a little more solid than the first, and landed. By that time it was too late to make another hop before dusk, and as even the new field was too soft to make it advisable to carry any passengers, we left the Canuck tied to a fence and went into Hickman for the night. The first effort to take off the following morning was unsuccessful ;s also the second. We could not gain a speed of over five miles an hour over the soft ground. Finally, with the assistance of several men pushing on each wing, we got the ship to the top of a gentle rise which gave us enough of a start to take off without serious difficulty. We stopped once in Tennessee for fuel; then at Friar Point, Miss., where we landed in an old cotton field and tied down for the night. The Canuck had only one fuel tank with a capacity of twenty-three-gallons, or enough to last for two and a half hours. By leaving hall an hour for locating a landing field, which was quite difficult at times, we had enough gasoline remaining for about one hundred and twenty-five miles in still air. If we were bucking a head wind it would be just that much less. We spent the night with one of the plantation hands near the field and the next day in seeing the country and carrying a handful of passenges. In the evening we visited a “haunted” house with a party of the younger residents, but were unable to find any “hants.” Our next stop was at Hollandale. then Vicksbtirg, where we landed in a little filed six miles north of town by slipping in down the side of a small mountain and ground looping before striking a, stump. After a day seeing Vicksburg we flew to Clinton, where the passenger trade was quite lively and another day passed making sightseeing flights.

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BEGIN SHOW HOUSE Workmen Start on Realtors’ Mystery Building. Construction of the “Mystery house” whicty will form the centerpiece of the seventh annual Realtors’ Home Shop, April 7 to 14. will be started this week, it was announced by H. M. Graves, chairman of a committee in charge of building the house for Indianapolis Heme Builders’ Association.

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RATS MUTILATE BODY Bu Times Special BICKNELL, Ind., Feb. 21.—Rats gnawed the body of Henry Crouse, 67, a recluse as he lay in his shack home in the White river bottoms near here, after dying several days ago. The body was found by Homer Summitt, a neighbor, who went to the shack to borrow a book. Coroner Beck assigned acute alcoholism as the cause of death. Beside the body was a gallon jug containing a small quantity of white mule liquor.

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