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HURON 
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SEPTEMBER 10 1992
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DESPITE 
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STATE FAIR AVIATORS LOVE THEIR WORK
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Volatile Tournier Knows what to do in Emergencies by the Feel of the Air
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Studensky, Rated One of the Best Aviators in Country, Absolutely Fearless
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Little Mercer Tournier, pilot of the fast monoplane at the fair, rolled his eyes and shrugged his shoulders eloquently when a Huronite representative began asking him questions yesterday. He does not speak English and the Huronite could never have secured the little Frenchman's opinion on his work but for the courtesy of Arthur Orr, vice-president of the National Aeroplace company, who went over to France to get Tournier and speaks French fluently. Mr. Orr volunteered to act as an interpreter. 

"How do you like your work?" was asked (through Mr. Orr, of course). 

The little chap's face wreathed in smiles answered the question before the interpreter had time to translate the spontaneous reply. 

"And how do you like Huron?" asked the Huronite representative. 

Mr. Orr preserved the Frenchman's verbal construction: "Very, very much for fly. This wind is so much, though. But for blow all the time, this Huron land best I have see in world for fly. Flier can come down anywhere, most, without hurt."

Tournier is busy with the English language which he desires very much to learn. He likes America well enough to remain away from Paris and has brought his diminutive wife and baby with him. 

Unlike many of the aviators of his ability, this little Parisian has never been a balloonist. He has always been somewhat of a mechanical genius and took to aviation when the science began to attract attention. He has only flown, however for a year and a half. His mechanics and his managers know more about aviation and the aeroplane from the technical standpoint than Tournier himself, for he is not a student in any sense. When he 
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what to do in emergencies in the air, knowing little about the whys and wherefores of air disturbances, the little Frenchman laughed and shrugged his shoulders again. 

"Oh my!" (English version) I-ah 

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Paul Studensky, pilot of one of the huge Beach National biplanes is also a toy man. His big blue eyes are the very picture of childish innocence. The interviewer, however, soon learns that here is no child, but an experienced man of the world and an artist in the saddle of a flying machine. Studensky speaks a broken English besides several other languages. 

"Yess. I ver-ry much love the air. I first learn to fly ze Bleriot monoplane, ze fast French craft like is no faster machine made than ze Nieuport. But I like ze beeg biplane too whole lot."

Studensky flew the big biplane which circled the city last evening at the time Tournier was flying. He is rated as one of the best aviators in the country and has accomplished some daring feats in the air. 

It is plain that he likes his work and that he expects to stay by it all his life. He says that he has no fear when flying and that there is no emergency that he would worry about if he is high enough in thee air to right himself when the trouble comes.
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