AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Nov. 10, 1930

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...

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