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to the airport via the Lawrence and 515 Kahlewa. Willie wasn't too keen about my flying today as the weather wasn't too favorable - misty and rainy. At the airport they informed us the pilot might or ^[[might]] not stop depending on what he thought of conditions but it looked pretty good. It was a half hour to leaving time and a bad storm was approaching from the west but they thought the plane would be ahead of it, and had already left Cleveland, reported over Perry. There were five of us passengers waiting. The ship was due at 3:10 PM and at 3:10 we heard  the roar of it coming. Roy and I stepped out of the hangar into the rain and looked at the sky. It looked as if a landing would be easy. But we never saw the ship- only heard it pass directly over our heads through the low clouds and drove on toward Buffalo. The pilot had orders not to land unless the ceiling was 1000 ft. or better. He came down to 1700 ft. above sea level or 1000 ft. above the field, was still in the clouds, and passed by, leaving about $130 of business standing there in the rain, gnashing its teeth but still with admiration for an uncompromising attitude toward taking any chances whatever. The thing too that impressed me was that the ship probably hadn't seen the earth or the sky since it left Cleveland, and it passed so beautifully over us that it seemed like it was actually over the runway on which it would have landed! All this accuracy due to the "beam" on which they fly.

We were driven back to my home by an airport man quite apologetic, and we spent the