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“JULY 26,1972 |

Lets face ithe airplane. i is
still a huystery to most of ws

ee eek &

- Once inside Bob, who. is a
Féally.. enthusiast for-small"'

— Oh T know we" ve oven up in
jets and travelled by: air to
Vancouver and other places but

whether the power thal keeps us.
up there is mainly “push-push?"’

or pulf-pull’"": only’ the

engineer, the pilol and other.

mechanically informed people
know,

So il always comes vas) a

distinct thrill (o me--each time E

goiora ide ina smiul, single-
engined jub--putting -my. trust

and my life totally in the fands ;

of oa fellow

human” being.

’ I've always harbored a desire
to fly mysell aud curry quile an

idmiration for those who have ”

tuken the Hime (o lea arn how,

Su f jumped at the chance to
i BO out lo the ‘Terrace
when Bob Bales offered lo tike

A me up for an hour or so in his ’

Hiltle Citaborer,. single-engine
plane, So

wo

It was a cloudless © July |
“evening: as 1.stood. beside the
airstrip while Boli vheeked, the
engine and looked over the trim
little craft, before we ‘pushed’
her out on ‘to the slrip.:

airport ©

he’ did the vital. checks
‘preparatory to takeoff...

Since

Terrace’s airport is without a

cuntral tower, he announced. to

-Ihe ‘radio operator, just how he

was planning his flight and what

runway he. was going to use--_
"choice of runway is governed by

wind direction.

‘The radio m man then gave-him
(he wind direction, wind ‘speed
and reported any-air traffic in
the vi.einity

Bob- conlinued checking his
engine power and the controls of
such things as carburetor heat,
magnelos,.fuel and other vital
parts.

’

“Then he reachéd around and

. turned: a litle knob beside ‘my

héad: (there's just “two seats-~

“one behind the other)--to adjust
the stabalizer which ‘trims the,
° aaircratl-particularly: the tail’

in.the case of small: planes—-lo
balince ‘the plane for different
conditions of  flight-such \:as

; climb, slide and level. flight.

‘Chen’ with a roar we’ sped
down - the: runway.

Come and Meet the Flere

at the me

Terrace. Air Show

planes*warmed up’ thesinrator ‘* “ietid-ai-
= Vicareflly and’ we taxied“dawn ‘;
the run way and paused while °*

" l h e.
On the way home Bab told me ;

And almost.

‘be ore I; Jone it,
there Wwe on

, were:

earth - and -yinouhtians,

We “fiast svemed”.o be
hanging up there like a dragon:
fly--on a kite withou. a ‘string.
kept

But the m 101 : uring

around, the ‘air supported the..
wings and there we were like

‘eagles -
miniature houses and a vast,
‘unfolding: landscape.

peering dawn at.

We flew up the valley to.
Kalum Lake and circled low -

over Hart Farm where you
could distincily see earth baked
hard by the feet of many
youngsters--the: earth gleaming
and bare. between _the camp
buildings, |

Heading back we approached
the airport for our landing.For
asecond { (thought the motor
‘had | stopped then J realized he'd
cut* power-and it was. idling
over whilewe . made: a long,
gradual glide. down-- to

remarkabsy gentle landing on .

strip.

he had learned to fly back in
195i and-because of finances did
Very little flying-lo about 1953

‘and then just had ta forget il. for -

awhile until this: April| when
as “he- pays: “I practically

learned. to th
suspended in’ the hands of
ooking’ throught: jthe. Bob,
‘generous window Space at. Bky ye

“*piloU’s‘liitense with instructor's’ :
_raling: and. has 900 hours of
flying ©

THE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

IV: all, over. ‘again in: .

SAT Se hy ee nee NR

“He holds ‘a commercial

his ~ belt.

He few his Piper. Pacer over
from, Chetwynd--checked me
out-- and saw me solo again.

. under .

with.

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