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Related by: Mrs. Elwood J. Junkin(nee Hattie Meyers, Glen Ridge, N. J. 4[[?]] South Whitehall Blvd.
Garden City, L. I. N. Y.

1932 - Towed by a Waco, piloted by Frank Hawks advertising Texaco a Franklin glider was flown across the U.S.A(Newsreel)

When Harris Hill became the Soaring site in Elmira, N.Y., WACO airplanes were and are used to tow thesailplanes high enough to catch a thermal.

When we built WACOS, like any pilots, mountains were avoided. Who landed in the Soaring site in WACOS? The Chamber of Commerce boys for inspection duty. Regulations were strict.

1931-1932 - Anyone with an advance design in aircraft flew into the Hoover Airport, W.D.C.; to have me try out the controls, which was all I could do, having a parachute and pillow to prop me closer to them. This included the first Autogyro(which landed on the white house back lawn); in one of the Navy high hat pilots planes; and the inbetween motored and sailplanes flying, i.e.: the Akron "blimp". All the old timers came to W.D.C. culminating all the WACO days and my own Scaring, Stories written by me for THE U.S.AIR SERVICE MAGAZINE; Famous Firsts on radio..1938

Addenda: When I divorced Commander R.S Barnaby, the Courts restored to me the name of Junkin. My son, George C. Weaver who could pilot at age eleven, earned his license at a Roosevelt field in 1939, where once his father had flown and Katherine Stinson/and the overseas pilots used Roosevelt for a starting point. 1941, Geo. was a designer of the wing panels on the FAIRCHILD PACKET, wartime troop and material carrier


Signed
Hattie Meyers Junkin

I hereby swear that all statements within this article are true.

RESERVING ALL RIGHTS AGAINST PLAGIARISM IN ANY AND ALL MEDIUMS OF EXPRESSION, INCLUDING OUTER-SPACE

Hattie Meyers Junkin
"Mrs.[[?]] WACO"

Transcription Notes:
I wasn't entirely sure how to denote signatures.