Boys Will Be Boys

Randolph Field's magazine carries a page chiding flight-flustered cadets. Excerpts :

> Cadet S. Weitzman was so relieved at completing his cross-country flight that he released his controls while still rolling on his landing and shook hands with himself. The plane merrily ground-looped down the ramp.

> Cadet Vic Skov radioed the control tower: "I'm taking off on Pawnee Cross-Country." Tower to Skov: "Happy landings, everyone else is going to Temple."

> Cadet R. D. Stevens asked: "Oh, please sir, where am I?" The tower: "You're right over the field, enter traffic and land."

> Cadet O. P. Collie: "Sir, the clouds are forming under me." The tower: "Don't broadcast weather information in wartime."

Cadet C. W. Baumann: "Sir, I'm swimming in oil, what shall I do?" The tower: "Take off your shoes so you won't drown and come in for a landing."

In India graduate pilots had their own fun. The first issue of Roundup, a new eight-page tabloid for American troops in India, China and Burma, featured this memo:

"Subject: Conservation of equipment.

1) There have been several instances which have resulted in damage to aircraft through foolish and wild flying.

2) Commanding General thoroughly sympathizes with desires of young pilots to blow off steam.

3) It is suggested that in the future when pilots feel overwhelming desire to let loose their exuberance of spirit that they immediately land their airplanes in normal manner, taxi slowly to specified parking position, stop engine, climb out of cockpit and take cold bath."

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