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sometimes dragging a 

 wing through the 

 space between a cou- 

 ple of hangars or do- 

 ing vertical virages 

 just in front of them. 



It 1 doesn't seem pos- 

 sible that any man can 

 be so much a part of 

 his machine, can be so 

 consistently accurate 

 that he never misses. 

 For this chap, Lu- 

 miere, has never had 

 a smash. . . . 



A chap named 

 Loughran started off 

 on one of his brevet 

 voyages a few days 

 before I got ready for 

 brevet. He got quite 

 a ways along, ran into 

 a storm, went above 

 it, got caught in a 

 cloud, kept on for 

 quite a long way, be- 

 ing drifted by a strong 

 wind, then came down 

 through the clouds 

 and found that they 

 were only 400 feet 

 above the ground. 



After a while he 

 found a place to land 

 and came down safely. 

 He went to a farm- 

 house, got his machine 

 guarded and tied 

 down. In the mean- 

 time, word had spread 

 over the countryside 

 that an aviator had 

 come down there and 

 the entire population came out to look 

 him over. 



A grand equipage drove up with a 

 Count who lived in a near-by chateau. 

 He insisted that Eddie come to the cha- 

 teau and accept their hospitality. There 

 the fortunate Ed stayed five days — the 

 Countess talked English, and also some 

 house-guests. He hadn't brought a trunk, 

 so borrowed razor, etc., from the Count — ■ 

 went down to see the machine every day 

 in the baronial barouche. 



Photograph by Western Newspaper Union 

 SUIT IN USE BY THE UNITED STATES ARMY AVIATORS 



The airman cannot be clad too warmly. Recently in an altitude 

 flight an Italian aviator, Lieutenant Guiclo Guidi, encountered a tem- 

 perature of 89 degrees below zero at a height of 19,750 feet, but he 

 continued to mount another mile. 



Whenever he went to the little town 

 in the vicinity, all the kids followed him 

 around the streets ; and when at last he 

 left he was presented with a multitude 

 of bouquets and had to kiss each and 

 every donor. He brought back pictures 

 of the chateau — a delightful-looking old 

 place — and numerous addresses. 



THE FIRST CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT 



September 4, 191?. 

 At last the two weeks of wind and 



