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one day he took off from Washington for Philadelphia in nice weather but they hit a thunderstorm up near Philly. Bill was such a veteran he did not deign to hook his safety belt; he was an old seasoned flyer. Suddenly the plane went into a nose dive and when it came out Bill was lying unceremoniously on the floor. That was bad but what came later was worse. They couldn't land at Philly on account of the storm and they wound up on a golf course over in Jersey, ripping off the undercarriage in landing. Bill was scared and soaked and late home after a 25 mile taxi drive. He hasn't flown since.

2.) One Ely Kinney, a Schdy. GE man, took up flying at 50 and had his own plane. One day he started for Lake George with a young fellow who had never been up before. Halfway to Lake George, a plane flew by them and the pilot pointed frantically at Kinney's plane, then flew around and around them still pointing at the underside of Kinney's plane. Kinney said to his guest, "You've got to crawl out on the wing, look over the edge and see what's wrong." The fellow nearly fainted and gulped, "I can't." Kinney said, "You've got to. I can't land until I know what's wrong under there or we'll both be killed!" So the fellow got up his courage and crawled out, looked and fell back into the cockpit again, reporting he could see nothing wrong. "All right," said Kinney, "Then crawl out on the other wing and look at that side." After some more urgent persuasion, the fellow edged out and took a long look; then he crawled back in and reported one side of the landing gear had broken loose and