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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 4 Jun 1936, p. 46

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an unusual 'OFportùiity to possess Ium fàinse fracion of their former prices. Ths nique sellig vntofes $10 Frocks junior k> formerly fo $59.50, *Sports and dress-.up types. Gowns. form.erly to $135 $2 Arriving at Curtiss I met Lt. C. C. -Mitchell attached to the !5th Observation Squadron at Scott Field, whose home is lu-Wilmette at 814 Linden avýe-. nue. Lieutenàant Mitchell told me that he ând bisaquadron commadr Major Goldsborough, weretown eih l a Cet "f try ureiteCoestedcoe Ariillc warnitess of over titothe ship and 1*11 show you how « 1 commented on the, laughiitchell1 M the day. Lieutenanit we d it," le added. ed. **Waüt. to sec the clothes that Irnspecta Plane. l'il have té climb into when I take imbed up the side of the plane, off?"He pointed to a: pile of leather ofj and, fpeered. into- thé rear cocýkpit 1 Thoms-MrSewbee al te Ifleece-lifled winter flying suits. the . fiy "*We said, hie but gadge ets necessaryr. for. operating an looked surprised, feet when they lise at 10,000 to 12,'0W0 1target are contained. the Big Gunis. and it's, pleiliy cold, Th(e pilot sits in the front cockpit, up there", hi ichlreîv< iteat i and the observer in the rearfacing 'eevt ieueatMthl .notstrapped i, pýH ail, ofte at Kelly andi Randolphi It would be much too awk 'rdwa traiig fields. Out of his original class oft7 hlm," e x p 1a i n e d Lieutenanthe asnef17tfni.Frn has nd Maj7 o fins.orogh uhr hell I nodded-2"But supposeUtchee MajoroWac Ws., fieano ,er is bumnpy, or it became neces- 1 ill the, for three weeks they will agive towdo arobathcspmige chance for bcûtrownfro artillery th plane6lst Coast Guard iot e to inprove their marksmanship. outany strap to hold hini? any's rarely necessary to do> e but straight flying in observa- N11EWCOMER TO SHIORE LIore ,h hd% ina %id-"One wile lL' .. 'in operated fromn the rear cockpit Dy a clütch on the floor. Two targets are carried-one being a spare i the event that the other should become fouled ini the tail surfaces, or dam-, aged in somne way. ,A pair of w~ire cutters is always carried- to. clip a'way the 'cable1 if it should- become. tangled. A. radio sending and receiving set and a M orse code key are* in the ob-' server's cockpit so that, the flyers, car contact the ground. to ýto norin snuirc lic, ilig , )re he 1 Suits., e e * . e $10 1 HeV It WorVI 1 around the ctujng i za on wsuyul a rope SUSor ride a bicycle A hole about .fifteen feet in diameter ing, WingFalls. Niagara is cut ithe floor of -the rear cock- pended across is plane moving Swiftly a pit, through which the targets are walking on foôrmerly to $85 0 The s;muêer two- and three-$ lowered by the observer. They are colne shaped, of brilliant red cotton material, 35 feet long, and five feet across. The open end is covered with wire that is, wrapped around five times. Wben the target is lowered àt trails behind the plane 2,000 feet, child's play to this man without p r c u ej m nerves. aump He made his first pahter e at Curtiss last Sunday, and fe into stepping at shots practice more space, AI Grifi~n will experiment with the tbrills of delayed jumps. Shor Esrly for liese Amazing Values Jane Meyer, avition editor of thws news-magaase, chats tuiith C. C. Mitchell oft he Ulnited Staes army air corps as :1w gathers nfort for hep weeklrpcolenu.ý

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