Note 10 — Chapter I · PUPILS

Ralph Johnstone said in a conversation about experiences while learning to fly, "I learned to fly all right but one day when I was up in the air pretty high I seemed to forget all about it and how to operate the controls. I tried them and tested how they worked and it seemed to me that I learned all over again, but it did seem funny to me for just a few minutes." Geo. W. Beatty said, "When I was flying at Chicago, in the contest for duration, when the weather was calm, and I had nothing else to do but sit and think while the machine flew on, round and round, lap after lap, I would look out at a wire and watch it as it vibrated and wonder if it was possible for it to break, while I realised that I could not get out to fix it. This worried me more than flying in a high wind. It seems more natural for me to fly than not to. I have been in the air on an average of two hours every day for over a year."