Viewing page 89 of 101

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

19

Monday morning the train returned to Red House. The plane was ready to resume flight and we sat on the train to watch Cal take the air. 

The field in which he had landed was surrounded by a four strand, barb wire fence. He made one start saw he would not clear the fence and taxied around for another. His second attempt was a representation of the first. For his third trial he taxied well back into the field, "gave her the gun" and gambled on getting enough elevation to get over. He lost the bet however. The top strand ^[[of wire]] caught his rudder spun the plane around and another crash resulted. Our second Monday morning of the flight and our second crack up, but Cal was still unharmed.

The train and party returned again to Salamanca, more parts were ordered from Dayton and the mechanicians began, for the second time, to rebuild the Plane. Our sleeper was released and the an party went to ^[[hotel]] for the stay at Salamanca For the remainder of the trip to Chicago we enjoyed the luxury of riding in an