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he stated flatly he got more kick out of getting out and flying than he did "working in an office battling a lot of companies to get decent wages for pilots." But if he were taxed with it today there's little doubt that he would admit that his work for flyers has given him more inner satisfaction than his work as a flyer. It's a case of where the sideshow has swallowed up the main tenet.

Dave Behncke got into aviation back in the baling wire days or, as he once said, when "you made a living by risking your life." For the next installment of this article we are going to try to locate a picture we have seen of the great Behncke flying a "Jenny," with Len Schroeder, "Shorty's" stepson, changing from Dave's plane to one piloted by UAL'S director of military flying and longtime chief pilot, Walter Addems.

Bewhiskered Charles Dickinson, seed king and flying enthusiast, gave Behncke his first job as an airmail pilot. Dickinson's route lay between Chicago and the Twin Cities-and making a living by risking your life was no empty phrase. The facts bear witness: Dickinson's first plane out of Minneapolis after he was awarded the Chicago-Twin Cities airmail contract crashed in bad weather cn June 7, 1926; in less than three months he had only one plant left of the five he had at the start. He threw in the

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