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ground being out of the way. The narrow escapes of men trying to get out of the way, and the narrow escapes from collisions where so many lanes were flying in such a restricted area gave us a lot of concern besides dodging the planes taking off and landing directly in line with our standing group. It was thrilling - yes very thrilling.

  Finally after the crowd had dwindled down to a mere handful two machines from the 139th were made available and Jack Ogden got into one and I got into the other. Jack was first down and he was successful. I followed and was equally clever (?) and this is what I had to do:-

  The circle look like this [[image: circle with a dot in center]] from the air.  It is plain from any height but

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