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Excerpt from: Copyright TXu 35 - 025
Dec. 20. 1979
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Wa.a.a.ko!
The Human Investment in WACO Aircraft 
by
Hattie Meyers Weaver Junkin
"Mrs.WACO."
Subject: Air Mail at night 1921 while Mrs. Geo. E. "Buck" Weaver.
I remember two incidents very clearly while in Omaha, 1921. I had never seen anyone fly at night, arranged for little son George Weaver 4 to stay in the Hotel while I piled in with a few pilots and my husband to go out to the field, where Jack Knight was due from the West with the Air Mail. The mail ships were open planes, the landing fields, mostly farms, the landing lights, bonfires built by the relay pilot, or friends. It was a cold windy night, the darkest possible. The boys built a fire for the landing light, as the weather reports were so bad for the flight on to Chicago. The relief pilot had gone back to town flight cancelled. Soon there was the sound of a motor, little jets of light from the motor, andinto the firelight taxied the mail plane. It seemed to come out of nowhere. Jack Knight climbed out, looking thinner than his usual self, his complexion looking almost mongolian in the wind and firelight. 
When he was told what the weather reports were and the relief pilot flight cancelled, Jack Knight said, he would take the mail thru. Air Mail was in its embryonic stages, just as planes were and the test of practicality was saving TIME for the mail bet' the East and West Coast i.e: 78 hours by train. Night flying the answer. The mail pilots had flares to throw over, in case of forced landings. Determined to go [[?]] , suicidal as it seemed,