Flights & Flyers

Buffalo Child. Muscular, handsome young Buffalo Child Long Lance (Einiu Pokau Inno Stoan), Blackfoot Indian chief, hero of The Silent Enemy (cinema), completed 5 hr. 20 min. of dual flight instruction at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. Instructors, pilots, students stood with upturned chins one day last fortnight watching Long Lance make his first solo. The chins fell agape as his plane, nose down, roared earthward in a power dive, pulled up and over in a perfectly executed loop. Long Lance climbed back into the sky and the dumfounded watchers heard his motor die to a hiss, saw the ship stall, saw it "fall off" on one wing and into what every novice should dread--a tailspin. The motor barked again, and Long Lance pulled out and into a gentle landing. Grinning, Long Lance clambered from his cockpit to face school discipline for his antics. But he was let off with a warning.

Few days afterward, Buffalo Child Long Lance sat in a plane piloted by Parker ("Shorty") Cramer, onetime Arctic flying mate of Sir George Hubert Wilkins. When Pilot Cramer pulled a lever. Long Lance was dumped through the cabin floor into space with a parachute billowing over his head.

Pilot Long Lance plans to interest wealthy Oklahoma Indians in aviation. Said he : ''They have the money, and once they learn what flying is like, I believe they will take to it as quickly as other people."

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