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advantage of a wing breadth and a strip of the fuselage. [[drawing of the front end of a two seater bi-plane with the engine shaded in]] Still again the balance of the planes can be "felt" in back better than in front. The "feel" of the whole machine is different in the two positions and as the [[strikethrough]] nominal [[/strikethrough]] ^[[normal]] flying seat is the rear one, it is essential that the embryo aviator must have at least one trip in the rear seat.

It was over a week since I had been up in the better part of the cockpit and after a trial flight with Clearwater early in the afternoon I waited till nearly dark before I had my chance. Hall was in charge of flying and at 5:20 he jerked his thumb towards C-400 and said, "You can take it if you want to, but go quickly before it gets too dark" I recalled the time, two weeks ago to the minute, when I had ventured up too late in the afternoon as I debated with myself for several seconds before I hopped in with the idea of going up anyway. I had time to