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THE FUN OF IT
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quently, the modern pilot’s attitude is quite different from that of the post war flier.

The development of flying is somehow synony­mous with automobiling of a decade ago. If you don’t remember, your parents will, the Sunday rides of yesterday. Roadsides were always lined with cars in trouble—some with flat tires, and some with puzzled begoggled drivers peering anxiously under raised hoods at engines they didn’t under­stand. To add to the complications, there were few service stations and few good roads.

Now yours may be among the 20,000 cars going to a football game, say, not one of which will expe­rience a single mechanical failure on the way.