June 7, 1943

Dear Mom and Pop,

Listen to this, today is the we finished flying. I just got back from the flight line. I had just 43 minutes left to fly my check ride, when the dispatcher gave me a plane and tole me to you out and complete my 65 hours. Gosh! Imagine that. I passes my 60 hour check without even know it. Maybe it's a good thing because I probably would never have gotten by. With my 43 minutes, I went up to 5000 ft., put the plane into a spin, after recovering from the spin I held the nose straight down, got up to 150 MPH pulled up, did a loop, as I came down out of the loop I headed straight down and got up to 160 MPH, pulled straight up and did an immelmann, came out of the immelmann, did a snap roll and then a slow roll. After coming out of a slow roll, I went into a steep turn and three vertical reverses and then ended up with another spin.

An immelmann is a half a loop, when you get to the top of the loop and your upside down so simply do a half roll and come out right side up. A vertical reverse is a steep turn; then you do a half snap roll and end up doing a steep turn in the opposite direction.

Tony and Geezil both passed too. O'conner messed up his spin in his 60 hour check so he gets another check tomorrow.

As ever

Al

P.S. YIPPEEEEEE!