Excerpt from Measure, Vol. 4: Summer 1941 The poetry of the sky has been achieved by Anne Mor row Lindbergh. Here is some of the hard prose reality of the world of flying, some experienced by a fledgling pilot. Here are the telltale marks of youth - and all its glory, too. Five consecutive dawns were witnessed by a group of student pilots who were too nervous to sleep with the anticipation of their flight test. Finally weather conditions could no longer stave Off the fateful day and auto traffic to the Indianapolis Airport seemed to stand aside and let us rapidly approach our destination. The sight of the 600-acre field was in itself, alarming. We had never flown from any field larger than Rensselaer's own 60-acre airport. It was evident that the size of this new field was not to be our only headache. Transport, army and civilian planes were landing and taking-off in such rapid succession as to make me wonder whether or not I would fit in between. The possibility of making spot landings on such a gigantic field seemed rather low. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.