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Besieged by AirplanesPunta Gorda is being besieged almost daily by airplanes from the aviation camps at Arcadia, but the only harm they have hitherto done has been an interruption to business by causing people to rush from their stores and dwellings to gaze upon our aerial visitors and hurt their eyes looking up into a dazzling sunlit empyrean, There is danger that some of our enthusiastic and persistent observers may have their eye-sight seriously affected by staring at a fleet of airplanes passing between them, and the sun. Every observer regrets that he cannot toss up to each plane a dozen glasses of soda water and as many ice cream cones and cigars; and, if the aviators could land here, they would receive a royal welcome from every man, woman and child in Pun-la Gorda.During the past week,.wo were lipnored by overhead airplane vis-ts as follows: Friday afternoon, three; Saturday morning, sis; Saturday afternoon, ten; Monday afternoon, seven.The buzzing of the plane motors is quickly heard by people on the street and, at once, they yell “Airplanes! airplanes!” and forthwith the whole town is emptied into the streets and the enthusiast ie populace turns its face (for once, at least) towards heaven.The planes that favor us with these visits do not come within speaking distance; they fly a mile high and, sailing slowly and gracefully along, look like huge mosquito hawks or dragon flies. They are certainly a most interesting spectacle, and we do not care how often they come, even it their visits should make “rubbernecks” of our entire population.
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Punta Gorda Herald
Punta Gorda, Florida, US
Thu, May 16, 1918
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Samuel A.
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