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A comparison of the Balance Sheet of the Association as of December 31st, 1927, with the
Balance Sheet as of March 31st, 1927, shows an increase in Assets of $152,203,85, and a de-
cided strengthening of condition during the nine months’ period. Stated in approximate fig-
ures, the important changes in the Balance Sheet during that period are as follows:
•4 tf ha eoula use is over the. front.
That night a young pilot walked HP
and said "Yen got me la a fine menn:"
it doveloped ha had had to leave his
squadron on an offensive patrol and
retum to the bass because of en:
qine trouble aad th. commandr »m
dubious.
Lter this insidest eaused Gray to
keep on although ha fell behind his
squadron aavaral miles and beeyme
tha prey at three Hua planes which
brought him disabled to earth be.
hind tbs liana and a prisoner until
3piua‘.
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IS Num to his eredit. On thio trip
the four planes lost the t»«bt earn-
mander in a 4,000-foot bank »t Wood
aa they climbed through and above
to the bright sunshine. Maund Carlin
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c. the Crotx de Guerte, wes ehot
dwn twic, in No-Man’s Land,
the only oiginal offleer left of his
squadron and ended up as an acting
commanding ofticer,
Tha toys now wer • mad, weird
frenzy. The plots would Ito ewake at
Bight trying he think up a new
stent, how to banner their fellows
aad alwayn this fatalistie thought i
“It's a quick easy death and IVn
either her ar to Erases. Why wor-
ry. Lota of fun." And there wm al-
ways a lurking apprehenaion of com-
bat work over tha lines.
lean but pounei
a real fright.
On Mo fifth
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when a terrific concunsion beneath
hi. seal .hot Mo piano tale the air
aad made it flop and spin. Grhy
thought he was hit. Was sore tor
several days like being spanked with
POn hto ninth offensive patrol (they
He Jolned the Saventy-fourth
squadron in Frarce, mentioned in
Lberty Magazine’s “War Birds," on
Jons 88. 1918.
Two examples of the atufL British
flyers were made of-Sidney Carlin,
Englishman, M year eld, and Clan-
ten, 24 years old, friend, of Gray’a,
Cariin began war in tha Royal En-
Leut. Robert H. Gray in an 8. E.-5 Royal Air Corps acout biplane
fer offensive patrols ef the type in which be brought down his first Hun
in his combat over the lines and in whieh ha later wm ehot to earth a
prisoner in Germany. Tha top machine gun to a Lewis, The tube In
front of Gray le not a gun, but the telescopie eights. Ths lower Vickers
machine gun Is under the cowl and over the motor to fire through the pro-
peller.
The Caudron biplane wreck below, shows how George Mitehell, Gray’s
flying school mate, was killed. This type of plans wm the first Gray over
law in New Zealand in which his friend "eracked up" a few minutes later.
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offered a job as instructer, «iven
three-day’a leave away from the field
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and needed there, bel.be wouldn't
consider loot than therfront. Gone
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progress during the period under review.
There has been a decided improvement in the care and accuracy exercised in the clerical
work since our last examination. With the use of the record of bank balances which was
begun January 1, 1928, we believe that the system in use will meet the requirements of the
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sunced on Gray giving him away and fired while they were to
tighe spirals at ISAM feet. The Han
_____i flight over the linee weal down like a falling leat. The
his equadron mat up with a squadron theory wna to dive, pull out, leqk I
of Fokkers at the same level. They around, aad diva again. He took to '
Junt passed keck aad forth several after another Hua to a general dog
timea, no combat. Gray. back at the fight and target oU inatructions. He
field. wanted to know why they didn't forget to watch hie tail er to look
fight them. Instructions were aot to above and chased any ba could gat
enuage Fokkers unlesa at an advan- after. Thea he looked up and saw
tage and the British were at a die- air above full of British nyers 18
advantage of being eight miles bo- appeared, eleven mates to hie aid. ba
hind Unas. ______ thought.
Geta in Virat Combat
the war ended. He was afraid to turn
back to hie base althouh It wee or
den and tha only eensible thing to
da. Afraid at possible ridieule and
suspielon which would have driven
him to death exeept for almaost •
miracle.
Deseribes Dawn Flight
Carlin took Gray ever the lines for
his first trip. When they wens out
on the atrdrome Gray mw only two
planes warming up. He had always
aagocted the first trip to find him
la the protective center of a big
equadron of veterana, Quito e shook.
Over the Unes, he started to fol-
low inatructions aad work his alti-
tude adjustment on ths carburotor
when ellmbing above 10,000 feet. He
choked the engine end had • sodden
fright of lending a prisoner behind
the Has. on hie flnt trip.
Later in a Just before dawn flight
between the linos in squadron form-
st is Gray tpid ts pleture himself as
a hero of ms sir os hs had always
vleloned war aviators.
The lightning-bug flashes sf ths
guns on either side below in the
darkness, n distant chateau sn firs,
clouds, showers, his motss nerenely
on either olds. Thsy were not hero
stuff, he mooed. He was just Hector
Gray flying in n ettange, beautiful
awesome dawn without a core to the
world. No grim knight of the air
here. Thia was his third trip ever
the linss.
HIs commanding officer thsn woe
Major Coldwell, 22 year-old New
Zealander with two decorationa and
By JOB CANNON
It last Sunday's story of the sir
adventures of Lieut. Robi. IL Gray,
Amarillo commerclal flyer, who fer-
merly was a British Flying Corps
see, we showed the young New
Zealander afraid of the air, yet
choosing to become a pilot as a lesser
terror than infantry bayonet and
, trench warfare. -
NF We loft Mm finally embarked on
Wihls oourse to a New ealand private
flying school after he had taken kin
AAmmpm THAT GOOD MAXWELL HOUSE-
WyUTEI Limit 1 Pound—-Lb...............
rack nt the drome On tkls sam- Gray declares. Never before or after
flight an American led Gray elose to has he experienced such a moment
an arehie nest to test his reaction. । of concentrated exeitement.
. - He waited until he was WB foot
On the nest trip over the lineb Ms
squadron aad a Heo squndron flow
op end down the lines, each on his
own side, with no attack. Oa his
sent trip Gray waa firing at 15,000
feet, slowly changing altitude •• •“ . with r.
the custom to throw err his fire off • **J”_“* .7 wT"!*-^***^
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Lieut. Gray, Afraid to Fly ,
" becomes Madman of Skies;
Gets Hun in First Combat
MILK PET erCARNATION—
were making two dolly) he got Me
first comba and Ms flrot Hun. He
bad boon at the front about a week.
HIs port of tke squadron, flvs planen,
were "bait" that day, with the re-
mainder ot the squadron about 6,000
feet higher and to the roar In the
sun. The Hunt used the same scheme.
Below they suddenly spotted five
Huns, alqo belt planes.
At last! Nights of cold sweat in
England thinking of the hour be
would engage the Huns. He already
had seen quite a few of the Hua
fighters in previous patrols. Now tbs
terrifying, thrilling moment was nt
hand. Hs could hardly control his
nervousness welting for the signs!
to attaek. He had singled out his
killed one toy, but of no particular
intereat anless a elose friend. Grey
finally had an inapiration one eight.
His slant that would bool them all.
Climb 2,000 feet, none down oagine
wide open ot about 140 miles an
hour, brush the ground with the
wheels and turn up into a tight loop,
than tank to the direction ke had
come upaide down, almost parallel
to tke ground until ko loot momen-
tum, the plane get shaky then rlgkt
her over. Bo fur ee he knows no other
flyer ever dared to do thia. Safer
than diving almost to earth, he claim-
ed. Each flyer told the other he wm
crazy, that the other would kill him-
‘self, tkat hie own stunt was sufs,
ke knew what bo was doing!
They had dog fights in squadron
formation and fought with camera
guns which recorded how close they
got to the enemy plsne, if they mods
a hit, etc. Gray and a Canadian ser-
geant tied in honors here. Half in
sarnssl they would warn each other,
"Better pull out tomorrow, I'll crash
Into you.” They would dive head on.
Gray would wait until the last split
second until the sky crash seemed in-
evitable, shut his syss, grit his teeth,
yenk back the joy stick and some wsy
they would pose.
Almost inhuman daredevil stunts,
taste of nerves keysd bsyond any-
thing ever dreamed of before.
Later the sergeant and another Ca-
nadian crashed in mid air in S.E-b’s.
Both killed, of course.
The early dawn patrols. Climb to
1,000 fset, dive dswn on the huts with
engins full on where their mutes
were sleeping until breakfast time.
Down to the last second then pull
out. Mates scrambling under the beds
or outdoors, pursing. The fterrifie
roar of the motor sounded terrifying
when 500 feet away but they came
closer and the worst of it was they
sometimes did divs Into ths huts to
their death. That was tbs thing thst
put ths thrill Into the stunt.
Thsss were scandalous days, no
reprimand if ship torn up. Work of
hairbrained men who wore uses in
ths making. Another day Gray watch-
ad a plans land in flames.
Gets War Lust la Veins
Ha graduated in Juns. Ths lust for
Days Becems Meat Freasy
Land out of loopa—divs closer spin
eloser to earth Meh surcessive time-
cock ship on and end fly between ______ ...
two trees er hangars when it was I military cosa. _____ ______
too narrow far level flying. Sixteen , plosive ebell blew the animal to
pieces beneath him, blew Carlin’a
PINEAPPLE Noad.Sled,"btxan.Bzarzd,.......life
BOILED HAM
Then disgust and remome MO
Mm. "There I've done the very
thing I‘ve been preached about, nob
to do." -
The west wind alwaya woe drifting
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R. E. Crudgington
Secretary
A. E. Mayer
H. H. Trolinger
Sam Montgomery -
C. R. Austin
W. N. Durham
Martin Jarett
G. W. Johnson
, J. W. Crudgington
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to earth. Ho suddenly recelled a
metement his instructor had mads
Ui ho theory course. "Turn loose of
Wrything when to a spin out of a
MBttgl. A plane it made-to fin
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would come down with engines full
on and bounce higher than the han-
gore, the next time they weald cat
the gas and drop the loot 100 feet.
Some would fly around until they ren
out of gas and always thsy wsre dis-
concerted by seeing the ambulanees
dashing out to where It looked like
they would land.
Dick Russell, a fellow flyer with
Gray, is an interesting sidelight. HIs
brain didn't work quick enough in the
theory of the School of Aeronauties
so they wouldn't let him join the
pursuit group bat sent him to the
bombing squadrons. He won a D. F.
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fool off up to the knee. Joined fly-
ing corpa in n equadron month ahead
of Gray. Eventually made flight com-
mander, got D. 8, C. Had two Hunt'
in first month. Cracked hree planea
in two toys because of the wooden
feet. Flnelly n bullet razed hie
bend. He recpined consolousnens just
before hitting the ground end became
a prisoner. Gray found him planning
an escape from a prison camp despite
his wooden leg.
Claxon got thirty Hun planus la
throe monthe. Ooi two Hum on last
flight, ended up In German hospital
with his head split opsin. Made bet
with Carlin to England after war that
he could be out of hospital first and
wen by a day. Carlin had another sec-
tion of his leg out off. Claxton had
a piece of bio rib fitted in bio split
forehead as only skin prevented a
fatal bump eventually.
Gray was >5 thsn. He spent his
twenty-six1) birthday in solitary con-
finement in a Garman prison for
making s fruitless attempt to escape.
On the second day in France the
flight rommandsr asked Gray to take
up an B.E.-5 and see what he thought
of it. He came down highly elated
over its performance. Beet plsns hs
had svsr flown, ho reported, and ask-
SUGAR 10-lb. Cloth Bera with 12.00 other merchandin...
It’ll right itself." He turned loose of f
oil controls, the sMp glided out to s
level keel.
Engine Dive on FIret Two Solos
On hie first two solo flights nt 2,-
000 foot above the clouds Gray got
rattled and choked and tailed his sn-
gine and had to make dead stiek
landings, which incidentally made a
hit with hie instructors.
His initiation to pursuit planes wm
n trip with she inetructor who camo
down in a series of mad stunts, in-
cluding the tall spin which, until re-
cently then, wss believed fatal. Gray
was discouraged. He felt ho never
would be able to go through or per-
form such flying himself because the
flight left him reeling. The instruc-
tor finally was taken off the job be-
eanss he broke tke morale of his
students by bls basing right at the
start.
The flyers on their first solo
flights in the fast pursuit planes
which flew 115 miles an hour as com-
pared to the training ship speed of
75 were a eight worth seeing. They
disappeared forever once ho loft the
water to an old-style seaplane,
in thia chapter we followed him
through the Royal Flying Corpa,
final training schools to England,
where the men were molded into
veritable maniacs of the skies by
" dares, taunts and n fatalistic atmos-
- phere which brought them fluttering
to mangled death in greater casual-
ties than at the front, and made la-
ter actual oombat ever the lines tome (
in comparison. I
The Mod Ones Became Heroes
The wildest and maddeat in English ।
flying echools were pointed out m ,
the fortunate ones who would be he-
roes in Franco—if they lasted long
enough! ।
Gray got a Hun plane in his first
combat and ninth trip over the lines
amin less than a week at the front. He
Mhost his bsad, broks sli tbs rules of
Sthe gums and lived to gloat in secret
ever hie prowess. An incident the
second day at the front line base, in
which he played an innocent part, we
will see, finally led to hia doom and
abroughs him to earth with a dead
MBhengine, a prisoner in Germany, until
“he armistice wm signed.
Lieutenant Grey In this series,
with the fact in mind that peace-
time aviation is at hand for every
man, hoe tried to remove the glamor
from the war air heroes sufficiently
to show that some of the aces, at
least, had the same fears and doubts
that most men now feel about taking
to tke air, end tkat circumstance and
tke urge of war played es Important
part in their mad eky maneuvering
as sheer bravery.
Unlike the average man ef 1928
who often has ridden with depend-
able pilots m a passenger before
aver considering how it would feel
to bo alone in the skies. Gray begun
his training m » flyer the toy after 1
he bed taken his first flight.
- Gray Afraid to Coms Down
Ths eix months he spent trying to
get 11 hours in the air in the New
ealand school wore mostly without
event. The training plnnos were
sluggish Curtis F flying boats or
seaplanes and their average height
above ground for that period woe not
more than 100 feet end rarely did
anyone fly higher than 100 foot which
now is considered a low hazard. The
etudents and instructors never flew
when it was windy and the correct
way to turn a piano thsn was in a
horizontal Instead sf banking M they
do now, ths fist turn being recog-
nised as extremely dangerous.
In his second solo flight Gray
ellmbed to the almost unthought of
height of 1,100 foot and got the only
big thrill of hie first course. A sud-
den pang of loneliness and n grip of
terror because he wm so far from
earth soiled him and for a few mo-
menta he was afraid to eoms down.
He salled from New Zealand Octo-
ber 11, 1917, and landed in Liverpool
December B, 1017, without Incident
on the troop chip, although the wire-
less operator got 8.0.8. calle from
three Allied ships which were tor-
pedoed. Upon completing Mo course
end the physical examinatlon in New
Zealand he at last became a commis-
sioned officer, a second lieutenant to
the New Zealand Land Forces.
Then tbs theory of aviation and
warfare at the School of Aeronautics
at Reading, Eng., until January 11,
1918. He finished with high grades
which later aided him in getting tn
ake coveted pursuit or scout squad-
WWhU. st a dance in London, Feb-
ruary 18, he experienced his first air
raid and his schooling in indiffer-
ence to war began then when he no-
Used the casual reception it was
riven by the people on the streets.
dk March 1, he experienced the first
«ir-light or dork of the moon raid
"Md picked up fragments of a high
explosive obeli within a few yards of
where he stood.
JoiM Famous Seventy-Fourth
Then 20 hours in ths air with tha
Avroes, training oMpe, which could
stunt, but wsre slower than the 8. E.
Be he piloted to actual warfare. Then
from B flight primary instruction to
A squadron which led eventually to
the famous Seventy-fourth squadron
Is France,
When Gray and the other pt lota
reported nt the Central Flying school
at Upavon, Salisbury Fialas, they got
their flrot lesson in etooling nerves.
In front of the orderly office wm a
plane half-buried in the ground, a
ghastly reminder thet they were
British Flying Officers.
—Anothar incident occurred toon
t which explained life in training. A
man named Jenkins literally was
- rasued to death. He wm a wild-eyed
' OrMien bravo flyer, but seeking
glory. He would do Booth defying
dives almost to earth. The other
pilots in Ms hearing would start talk-
ing about this fellow Jenkins always
gliding to earth and the lke. With
an oath Jenkins stated ba would thaw
them how to stunt. Hs went up and
dived with engine full on straight
into the ground from BOB foot, sovet-
ing hlo hoad from his body and driv-
ing the engine shaft through hia
body. Thin wm March 81.
On March 24, Gray has a note in
hia diaryi “18 erashes hero today.
Georgs itchel killed to nose dive,
IM feet." Mitehell, whose plane to
shown above, wm Gray’s cabin mate
tram New Zealand to England.
WMle flying one of the Avroes
Ahkay put it late hie flrot epine He
« never done any stunts in his
“Wme la New Zealand. He wm 2,000
feet up and in a few seconds loot all
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