Top: winter operations in progress, note the skies on aircraft.
Right: Posing between flights while
aircraft is serviced, note heavy winter
flying gear and talk tube around neck.
It was not until the fall drenching rains was there any relief from the smog filled air of the northern brush fires, but not before a life was claimed as a young flyer from Chicago
lost in the low visibility bailed out when he ran out of gas at 200 feet, was to low for chute to open on 9/21/41.
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