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that the tail might be set down gently. Now in Texas and elsewhere we were warned time and again that with the scouts the 3 point landing was an ultra-requirement. So put the culmination of all previous training point to the perfection of the [[underline]] 3 [[/underline]] point, coupled with the roughest and unevenest field of all, and a comedy of errors must naturally result if a two-point landing is essayed.
The end of the flying periods, - 3 a day - saw one bus come down, bounded mightily, give a final leap and came to grief with a crushed landing gear. The next ship out of the air would "cheval" and go up on a wing; the next would break a skid and slide on the rudder; one more unfortunate would completely turn over and "wash out". It was almost and epidemic of crashes. The instructing staff went wild, the ground officers taking their usual safety-first delight in