Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1929, Page 99

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION -MARCH 17, The Aviation Show By W. E. Hill (Copyright. 1929. by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) You don’t have to know his is what the young man “How long does it take to be a pilot? anything about the mechanics, do you?” in charge of the Flying School booth has to cope with over and over again. “That's too technical a question to answer here, young fella.” Its the younger gemeration that asks the sticklers, as many a hardy exhibitor learns from experience. “Now, don’t be saucy, Junior; you've been in there long enough!” Making young America air-minded is not difficult; it's getting him out of the cockpit, once he’s in, that takes time and patience. “Oh, dear, I know he'll get one of his gas attacks and "Il have to be up with him all night!" Just an eager young hushand trying out the orientator against the advice of the little wife. (An orientator, in case you don’t know, simu- lates all the free and easy motions of an airplane without once leaving the ground. While less hazardous than a roller coaster or a bhamboo slide, there's always the chance t the operator may go off to lunch leaving the occupant upside down.) Tired salesman, in charge of the Sticko Waterproof Glue exhibit, thinking of the little home and the kiddies, the lobster and the ice cream he ate for lunch, and one thing and another. He's had a pretty hard day making air-minded America Sticko Glue conscious. At the desk where hooks on the art of flying are on Just a lovely young society aviatrix \:1'.;,'Y?:lx'\x:ml4!1‘1',’4n“|'..»\.v,(.::_ v:.hu;_vr job l~“\g'“l"‘k'_ pmuralmm, is pinch hitting for Miss Amelia Earhart, subs g Miss Grayce Grogan, ) srogan ving Gl . ~ ero 5 stepped ontside for a maple nut sandac. ~And what," aske Lady Heath. Col. Lindbergh and The line that forms on the left climbing the little platform to see what the inside of a de luxe brougham aircraft looks Miss Leuber in response to a demand for a hook on ation Comdr. Byrd at the distribution of like. The young man in the right foreground is in charge for the afternoon and his duty is to see that souvenir hunters do not for the layman, “are Mr. Lehman's initials " prizes in the model airplane contest pry off a door or a cockpit and to assure air-minded ladies that he is not Clarence Chamberlin