If you have looked skyward at the many aeroplanes flying ove' Shanghai and -have wondered at the nerve of the pilots, even perhaps shuddered a bit at the thought fof flying yourself because of no desire for an carly demise, dismiss the thought. Relegate it' to the limbo of an ancient prejudice, For it must be said in all truth-feiness that the thrill of the early days is gone. No longer does one feel the earth staying behind and tis dinner with dt, and no longer does one alight with a bump that sends him to his dentist, Yesterday a test flight was held and we went, along to record oar thrills, "Unhappily we returned without any.
The Loening-Amphibian in, which the trip was made took off from Lunghua much more easily thas many automobiles in which we've idden and the arrival back at the inger would not have awakened newly born babe.
test flight the trip was a.
as a thrill producer it was about as adventuresome as sitting in front of an electric fan. But it was immensely enjoyable, every nate of it and the pilot said there were 60, It was over only too soon. We should have preferred staying up much longer for we had car first experience of looking down at the Custonis clock, and had an excellent view of the interior of the Kiangsu Prison at Lunghua where an execution was. going on. They even interrupted proceedings to look aloft at us, 80 perhaps the trip was not without merit after all,
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