AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958 - (Page 40) .. - tost of sun atretikiag acrasd the &y. I hitched my shoulder h&niess and taxied slowly across the lonely field totheendof-Bferbpgpavsdm~, Sky Harbor Airport, at, s I seemed like home to m . It was home, e at least,tomy pampered two-aeater, although I doubt if she were thnildag fhpse thoughbas she purred through her q check. he was a sleek teasna 140, aaiaed GwroI~s h @ q l be, cause of her unfailing habit to carry m gently and safely at &m@oppore tunitr to my fiancee in Milwaukee. Heading northwest at 2 0 0 feet, to ,0 use the feest available winds, my thoughts fumed to the vacation ahead- -Ninedays of leave ffom the U. S. Army! And this Beutenaat wouldstartthemoff right. Abrief stop in Milwaukee would be enough to embark the yowaa lady for whom the AwnS. served, and then we would foe flyrng: to a week: of glorima oatdoor {nil at Oaawsy Island in central tike world. When yon r6&(L titis &tory, yon may joat as readily place yourae3f i the starrins role, n It -was a promising dawn, with a dear Ausruat sky abow and the first Wisconsin. Tiro first sigaa 6 Jew-flying cfoads f appearedaslcrosswifhsfamiliar Wabwh River. Autom^ticallyi I crankedupmy LearVHPsetsad called Lafayem radio for another weather check. The report was the same I had heard at tatee-off: Cfaieago and Milwaukee, both 8,000 feet with rain ahowem Visibility, three and a half. No* much ¥worryT. buns UD the earphones and relaxed as we'll a8 I could with the scattered elowla helaw me. When I reached thesouthern shore ofLakeMiflhigIttL therewmftlof haze above tine water, through whidi I could barely discern the big paairnula of Inland Steel where it juts out into the blue. At my dtitude of 2,000, however, t h e air was yelatively dear. 1 could distinguish cloud outlines without trouble at a higher attitude ahead of me. The Chicago Heights -weather r6" port came through as 1 charged out over the water. I t was still reasauring. I daited to fly above the cloud layer which himg ominonsly before m& With Milwaukefi showing 8,080 feet, I should be able to easily over Hie wall of white clouds, fly at least 1,000 on top, and then drop In (Cmti'ituç on, page 44)
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