DOG GOES SKY-WRITING

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 70, 19 September 1930, Page 3

DOG GOES SKY-WRITING

Meet "Shot," the world's most sophisticated dog! He has flown over 10,000 miles in an aeroplane, travelled at w miles an hour in a speed-boat; sat complacently at the side of his master in a racing car; and is known at practically every night club in London. Shot is the black spaniel belonging to Mr. bydney St. Barbe, the -well-known sky-writing pilot "\.t Hendon'Aerodrome I was introduced to 'Shot.'" writes a "Dai y Chronicle" representative. He immediately showed his love of the air by leading me and his master.to the special sky-writing aeroplane which has had a compartment built into the pilot's seat to accommodate the dog. "He has flown practically everywhere with me since he was given to me three and a half years ago. Now he is better known in aviation circles than 1 am," said Mr. St. Barbe. "He has done nearly everything that I have done. He has travelled in a speed-boat in Poole Harbour, and even went: so far as_ jumping from the back of a, boat travelling at 60 miles an hour in an attempt to catch a seagull! Generally he flies alone in the front cockpit of my Moth aeroplane. He is never strapped in, and often with his paws on the edge of the fuselage he leans forward bo that the air stream catches him full in the face. ''Shot" doesn't confine his activities to travel, though. 'He has the ri^ht of entry into practically every night club in. London, where, although everyone makes a fuss pf him, he behaves perfectly. "; " . .