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Nile Kinnick correspondence, January-May 1942
1942-01-15: Page 01
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Thursday Jan. 15, 1942 Dear People, Yesterday I was permitted my second hour of solo. What a ride it was! For some reason or another the plane seemed like an entire stranger to me most of the period. I shot a few landings then cruised up the valley for some air work. Now those landings were truly something to experience! There was a rather tricky cross wind blowing out of the west which made it necessary to keep exceedingly alert to avoid ground looping. Let me hasten to add that an ordinary ground loop isn't a serious mishap at all. Such things are happening constantly around here. But, nonetheless, it is a blow to one's pride and goes with your record. Happily, I didn't ground loop but I did have no little difficulty in holding my plane absolutely straight on take offs and landings. Am very sure things will go much better
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Thursday Jan. 15, 1942 Dear People, Yesterday I was permitted my second hour of solo. What a ride it was! For some reason or another the plane seemed like an entire stranger to me most of the period. I shot a few landings then cruised up the valley for some air work. Now those landings were truly something to experience! There was a rather tricky cross wind blowing out of the west which made it necessary to keep exceedingly alert to avoid ground looping. Let me hasten to add that an ordinary ground loop isn't a serious mishap at all. Such things are happening constantly around here. But, nonetheless, it is a blow to one's pride and goes with your record. Happily, I didn't ground loop but I did have no little difficulty in holding my plane absolutely straight on take offs and landings. Am very sure things will go much better
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