j Letters From the Front SHAFFER WINS AIRMAN'S LICENSE IN FRENCH ARMY Walter J. Shaffer, of Dauphin, has completed successfully his training as a military aviator in the French flying camp and has been granted the coveted military license for aviators. \\ ith his license he was granted a furlough of eight days. He. writes home that lie will use this time in taking advanced in sir ictions at the Avord Military Camp. Paris, France, . , Oct. 14, 1917. "Dear Mother: Have been in Paris now for two iluvs on my seven-day permission al lowed me for passing all my tests. Yes, 1 am a military aviator now, but by no means ready for actual lighting. Oh. dear, no, my education lias really only commenced and af ter my permission expires back T go to Avord to take up more advanced training on Nieuport, that light, fast little fighting plane that has been ihe goal of my ambitions, and is "likened by some of the American soldiers to a pipe with winds. 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So he ! sent me to another town which 11 had been to three times already, in cidentally, it was the worst trip of all the cross-country trips, us the field is ! very narrow and bumpy, making landing very difficult. So I was not tickled much over the prospect of' such a journey knowing the way 1 from the previous journeys. 1 had little recourse to my map and landed j all right. But coming back my trou-1 ble began aplenty, for 1 had only j made one circle of the field when my | engine began to miss. Little Walter i came right back to the field and gave! the mechanics another chance to | look at the motor, because a bumpier day 1 never put in and I've been j bounced around quite a lot before, j Take it from me, i was not going to; start home until that doggone c-n-j gine was Uittlng light. Just the' same, utter an hour's work thereon j they sent me away again; but that engine did not sound right yet, and I sure enough when I was halfway) home she went bad again. It looked I for some time there as if I was going! to break my good record —and some- I thing else, because 1 was only 100! meters high, and looking below the j Scenery presented did not offer much j encouragement in the way of land-' ing places. Just as If Fate wanted to | rub it in, there was camp right in < \ sight with thirty or forty miles of vineyards and forests Intervening, j In case 1 might get bored and fail 1 asleep the weather began bouncing) me all over the map; twice 1 thought 1 was gone, a puff knocking me right ' on end, and the warping controls le-j fusing to answer, although hard over, J ! 1 had to stand her right on her noae: to prevent a sideslip. Believe me, 1,. : was having quite an interesting time! ; and after fighting their way for half! j an hour, nursing my engine along, I : and catching puffs before they had a j chance to tilt me up too far, I was! | not so crazy about aviatoire as 1 ' ! had been when I started on the jour- j ney. Since my engine was apt to go j , wrong very shortly, 1 recklessly j j headed direct for camp, flying right | ; across all these vineyards and for- j | ests. instead of flying around over j good landing grounds. buck held j good too, because we finally got there j after an hour and a half (lying and j : landing safely. That finished my cross-country work, and that oven-j I ing they gave me a machine with in-1 struetions to make nineteen landings. l Just fly around the camp in a circle and land, you know.' They call 'hesc! little circle "tour" de piste" In French. To get a military license in this country one must have made fifty landings alone and flew for a total of twenty-five hours. That was 1 the reason 1 had to nvike nineteen landings in a row. Naturally, the shorter I made the circle, the sooner | , I could land and quit. It was only: the landing they were counting. lj made those circles short. That was a.l right when 1 started- in as j there was only two machines in the' air, and the other plane was aoini? the same work I was. But pretty, soon the double control machines lie-'. Kan work, and several other classed also. After that it was not so safe, as machines were coming up and fly ing all around the place. Of course they have traffic rules: they are abso-, I lutely necessary to avoid collision in 1 the air. So the rule is that all planes fly in a circle, turning to the 1 left, or vice versa, depending on the orders for the day, which are given j by pulling two black balls up on ai j high pole. One ball means turn to 1 the right, and two, to the left, and I woe betide the aviator who turns the : wrong way. I did it once in my : \ earlier training and nearly got put in the jug. However, that mistake made in ignorance firmly impressed the meaning of those big black balls i for they are very big on my mind ,ind i I never repeated the mistake. When 1 i nil these other classes began work I was supposed to fly away around them, a circle that required fifteen, minutes to complete. That did not ilsten good at all. It was not flying ! that I wanted that night. 1 wanted to finish up and get my wings. So. trusting to luck that my moniteur j would not watch my machine, there: being so many in the air, I began | | cutting corners. You can under-j | stand how close when I say t hat one | circle took me three minutes and i some seconds, when I should havo' I been gone fifteen minutes. One ofi the fellows in the same class timed \ it. but the moniteur either did not , I notice or else understood my desire! I to finish that evening, so I kept on i | doing it. 1 got quite a lot of fun out of it, too, because cutting in 'ike! I this T had to keep an eye open for, j machines. Needless to say, 1 dodged j quite a few, especially that class that! were flying alone for the first time.' Having passed through that class, tj knew just how wild these pilots were! because their motto is. "We don't I know how to dodge you, so you ket p' out of the way." I kep* out of rheir 1 1 way too, and since I always flew over them at 200 meters, (they are only! , supposed to fly at 100, sometimes though they reach 500 meters), and chuckled as I watched them sit there j with their qyes glued straight ahead, scared stiff but still game, in re membrance of the time I felt the same way. One don't get much chance for meditation in an airplane though, and I was soon rudely brought back to the present by some thing moist hitting me in tlie face. Right away I thought my engine was throwing oil, but when T rubbed my rroggles the liquid did not smear, so it was not oil, and I could not see how it was rain, as the sun was! shining all around. The peculiar I thing happened at the far end of the! field and I soon passed out of It, j came down and landed and went offi again. Coming around to the samej spot the same thing occurred again I j only this time much hnrder and then j j I knew it was rain. They were big drops too, and passing there at my speed of eighty miles an hour they I hit my face with tremendous force. ! It hurt so much that I thought it was a hailstorm, but as my glasses did not break, I had to admit it was only rain. My, how those drops did sting. It must have been hard wa ter. Rain water always is, isn't it? This time I nearly lost control, be ; cause T could not keep my goggles clear and I was only up 100 meters I then. Luckily, I soon ran out of It again. It was the most peculiar and strange thing I have ever seen. Imagine a little farmhouse down in the corner of a large field and every time I passed over It I ran into this I rainstorm. It was not raining any where else nearby. Just that one little area. Of course there were clouds in the sky, but they were these big white, billowy ones, fur thermore they were very high. 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They are to flying what 'lie Ford Is to automoblllng. Just as sal'e and dependable. Unlike the Ford though, they will not fly on their reputaUon. I ought to know. 1 tried It once and fell among the grapes. Oh, yes, they will fly with out an engine, but they will be com ing down all the time. After I had landed about elevei# times I had to stop and have my engine repaired. Wanted a rest, 1 guess. Anyway, the class of ten who were waiting for me finish so they could ride said that when I had made my last land ing I had landed right on a rabbit. It scared the rabbit so badly that he run aiong under the wheels for some time, because I was making a little speed myself.. Of course I did no know this as one can not see the wheels from where the pilot sltS;, but It was very amusing to the class and when they first saw it. they thought X was losing a wheel. I might as well finish the story by saying that when I came around ten minutes later on the next circle I could see that rabbit still running some ten miles off. One gets a very good view from above, you know, and banny was sure making good time. Am writing this in the new Y. M. :C. A. hotel, which is certainly a -well NOVEMBER 8. 1917. appointed and beautiful place. It sure is cold In here though and I wish they would turn the heat on. I am boarding at a French pension and rooming at the Y. M, C. A., three francs a night. Meals cost mo blx francs a day. Will have to stop now, as I am hungry and too cold to write more. I want to add that I am a real honest-to-goodnoss aviator now and I have two silver wings on my col lar to prove it, too. I certainly deserve this rest, for I have applied myself diligently, and have succeeded in going through my training without ■ breaking even a wire . Something in itself to be proud of, although not a rare occurrence by any means, be cause I flew in all all conditions of weather and many the time was placed on my mettle especially with engines J knew absolutely nothing about. Will write soon again. From Tour Aviator Son, WALTER. 3
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