HOW FLYING FEELS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1974, 3 February 1914, Page 4

HOW FLYING FEELS.

MISS M'LELLAN'S STORY. HER TRIP IN THE tSRITANNIA. , CBx Tdekrapa.-foifeiil tJor*»Ji>oa«isiH •, -, ~,' .AucWeha, January 31. What it feels like- to be iSKJOft. mi in tho airwasrtold.to a reporter.by Miss hsma M'Lellaii, of the Royal Pantomime Company, who lias tW distinction 91. being the iirs-fc lonian to iuakii a successful aeroplane, flight in ?i!ew 2f.> ,i u r ,i P n Wednesday afternoon Miss M'Lellan-wcnt lip iritli Lieutenant Hartimoiid in the . Government:■ aeroplane IJritanma, and for nearly half an hmir had the, unique experience of 'gehi'mi round above .the: city ftiid suDtirbs./ lr ;' w ' lat was', it like?" said Mies M'Lellaii. "Well, it «a.& likejmst nothing I've ever expftrienceU before, and sii it's quite hard to toll a real story aboiit it. .Mr. Hammond is staying at tho. same hotel and 1 had expressed a wish to go up if evor. Mfelt -Mdined to take a passeriger. Ho fras not quits snrp abbnfc the Britarihia wHeiitt came to,carrying a passenger, howeVer,'and lifi would make lib promise. Oh Wednesday I went put Vrtii atliers, of oiir party, after visiting the' Exhibition, to" see Mr. Harpnioml fly. B was an jibsnhito surprise to irie when M said: 'I'll take a passenger, Witt you come?' I didn't wait to .be asked twice, &M at once got into tho passenger's , seat. . "I honestly didn't £6el the least *'eo bit nervous. Oil file contrary, the.feeling I was most conscious of was oiie of pleasurable excitement, and; 'the first feeling once away wss ]iq* simple and safe it all was. I'd somehow pictured, aviators as having to be tied in or having to hold oii tight. On tho firitaiui.i.-i I never even thought siioiit being frignteiied or. of Ijeirig anything else krt com-' fortiible and pleased.. Thd hjachiiie left the' ground so easily, and ,we, mounted into tho air so naturally. t'ljat it somehow 'seemed to actually inspir.e confix denee. It is eurprisingly difficuie to analyse notv what' my Sensatioßtt were. I only kiiow that 1 Was woiiderfully elated,, and that I just enjoyed every moment of it.< I''r6m your toleanid cones 'I have often looked out orer Auekkhd and thought - it-the -loveliest placo iii the world, but viewed fram ah nMo.pline at a height ot nearly iiOOOft. it was like a glimpse of. something' almost nrireal. The' city itself looked biff enough, but the houses and the people seemed Jjke. those Gulliver must havD met with on his' travels. Wo were travelling faster than I have over tfnveilccf in- the' fastest express trains., btjfc there; was not even the slightest vibration,, nor Was. there aiiy sensation • that. was other than entirely pleasant. When we can actually journey train ono place to another without the fatigue of trainv travelling or tho drawbacks 'of. a. Jea. voyage, how delightful it is going to'lxst •• "When wo descended it W<is all just equally simple and apparently equaHy easy. Corning dottn tlie water-<>lnite at tho Exhibition only two hours before, my frienda had teased me because I was actually scared. Coining down; to earth from tho skies on tlie- Britaiiliin, riever ga;e m.e'o'no tervoiis tlibuglrt. W<s landed as skilfully and as oasily as went up. I'm sorry I 'can't tlescribo my experionco in mor& gtaphic. terhii,but I'm a. wonian, and 1 can best express myself ''_wheh I ''ttse «. woman's phrase and simply say it. Was just lovely. I was more elated w : hil<? in the air .than I;' think ■ Pvo over" ■ bfeen about, any;: : first 'nifsht success'at te' theatre, and" I really think I'm more excited about/ it now w})e.iy : it'is' all ■ever than I was while actually- in ttfd air," ■