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1 Personal Reminiscences
2 [[Flepeluzna Norfia?]]
3 Crosscountry & Meetings
4 Experimenting
5 Exhibition
6 Letters
7 To my friends]]

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GREAT FLYING SEEN AT CICERO FIELD

CHICAGO, May 12,--Farnum Fish, the young Californian, made his debut at Cicero in startling fashion. He was delayed in getting his Wright set up, and when the job was completed on Saturday morning he immediately took her out, although a gusty wind of 30 miles an hour was blowing. While Fish was in the air a storm suddenly blew up, and Field Director Drew waved a white flag, to which Fish paid no attention. Drew then used the red flag, and Fish came down with his plane rocking like a catboat. He said he thought the red flag meant that something was wrong with his machine, and apparently did not consider the violent gusts dangerous. He waited a few minutes until the storm had subsided somewhat, and then took up his mechanic, Hazzard. With the extra weight added, Fish could not fight the gusts, and when he found that he was being blown into the north fence, landed. 

Leaving Hazzard on the ground, Fish went up for what was probably the most remarkable exhibition of wind flying yet seen here. At one time a gust threw him up at an angle of 60 degrees. The young aviator apparently was not worried, and made several very short circles. He finished a 10-minute exhibition by cutting off his motor over the south hangars and glided to the ground, clearing the paddock fence by five feet. Fish was complimented by Drew on the cleverness he had shown in handling his machine, but told that he must use a wider margin of safety in his landings, when they were near the hangars and fences.

[[underlined in red]]Paul Studensky, one of the National Aeroplane Company's aviators, made his first flight in the company's Curtiss on Friday. He handled his plane cleverly, and as he also flies the big 50-foot Beech-National plane, he can be counted on for interesting flying this season. The National company's Nieuport, with an Anzani motor,[[/underlined in red]] arrived Saturday, and will be piloted by the French aviator, Tournier.

Andrew Drew, who, besides being field director, has been appointed testing pilot for several of the experimental machines owned by Harold McCormick and other members of the Aero Club, began experimenting with the "umbrella-plane" on Friday, and made several hops.

George Mestach, the Morane operator, who has been flying at New Orleans, wired for hangar space at Cicero on Saturday. Half a dozen other aviators have written the Aero Club for information concerning Cicero. It begins to look as if Chicago will be the center of interest long before the start of the Circuit Race and the Gordon Bennett.

On May 6, Charles E. Bartley, treasurer of the Aero Club of Illinois, and afterwards his 15-year-old daughter, Miss Gladys Bartley, had rides with Max Lillie. There were about 300 spectators on the field, including Harold F. McCormick, president of the club. Bartley was carried to an altitude of about 650 feet, while Miss Bartley was kept within about 150 feet of the ground. It is believed that this is the beginning of a movement on the part of officers of the club to have practical experience in the air before summer comes and goes.
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