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He suggests that he may ‘get While at Benbrook he first . basking in the thrill of handling _ lost‘ on one of his training flights _ hears of the poison gassing of his the controls and remarking on â€" and land in Hamilton. It‘s a time friend Ken Inglis. # , the crash landings. He assures â€" when aviation is new, and any Later, during his stay at his dad that no one is ever hurt in â€" flat spot is a potential landing â€" Talliaferro, Tom was shocked to = 3 them. It is part of an ongoing field. In the same letter he writes hear of Ken‘s death. The news assurance that he gives his â€" that he flew over his Aunt Nell‘s â€" spurs the young aviator to avenge parents t}lat he is being treated _ place that afternoon and waved at the loss of "one of the truest , well and is safe. her or Lena. (Aunt Nell is Anne friends that ever lived.". It Often the letters are filled with _ Wyminga‘s mother.) But for a reminds him of the "seriousness > . the patter of dayâ€"toâ€"day life. At wind blowing in the wrong of the war on the other side". He Mohawk, he commends his direction, he would have landed . is anxious to get over to the front mother for the fine quality of on his uncle‘s farm on that where he can do some real good. socks she has knit him. He has â€" November 8 flight. His parents hear everything. worn them for two weeks On November 16 he turns his first f straight, with no signs of holes, Off to the U.S loop at 3,000 feet. He writes the "which proves their value". He Texpe Higkan Wil(.)le on next day to his mother. "There | promises he will change them e xpemtence Chalioneing somelor was a bunch of mud sticking to | tomorrow, "purely for sanitary hispstereot £ esLHe mgar\glgels auths my wheels however and when I \ reasons". Soon he will have his Ramber ofsl?ors:es Erainules Teud turned upside down it started to ‘ lined leather flying outfit. In the by the contractors who are still fly in my face which somewhat ~ letter he tells his dad he will be putlaine thelbenbrook Camp. Hor alarmed me as I did not kpow \ making landings at the speed of is da§’s Fexchi he recgfints what was happening for a while." 65 miles per hour. Nearly two Soe id detqi]eyof frerilt Living in an age of jet planes, it months later he notes that the i i Ti ¢ P _ is hard to imagine a plane ‘losing ; down. (His dad worked for the p ; grapes that were sent to him Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo ground‘ and averaging only ten arrived "mouldy owing t0 the | pajway,) miles per hour against a head delay in transit." * ; wind, as Tom reported to his (jad © On November 4, he asks his im‘;\itegelg}fi?fifrmtgo ra:fi;’fig on November 22. Or being. . ~ / _dad to telegraph him at CaMP â€" mpankegiving dinner. "I and ma grounded for eight days due to > Borden with a good reason to D8 wige would l?ke yo‘ all three to heavy mist. §3 2Â¥ R A 4 s grantgd leave. 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