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Nile Kinnick correspondence, March-October 1943

1943-04-05: Page 04

ployed by the Army disclosed that one of the blades was 5/16" out of line (the Navy only allows 1/8") and 8º degrees out of pitch. Evidently the men who had installed the new props had gotten it "out of tooth" - in fine, not properly aligned with certain markings on the hub and blade. The time necessary to fix it would make it too late to leave for Quonset, so we decided to stay all night. You will note that Newburgh is just a few miles above West Point and is just a little below Hyde Park. Whenever the President spends a few days at home a squadron of P-47s from Mitchell Field flys up and stands by  at Stewart Field as a precautionary measure. The latter field is being used mainly for the training of a portion of the West Point Cadets who will graduate right into the Air Corps. It is beautiful country, this Duchess County and Upper Hudson area. It has a settled, peaceful appearance, and the wooded hills and grassy  glens look like something out of Washington Irving (I wonder if I have used a proper simile?) Sunday morning dawned bright and clear, a wonderful sunshiny day in the spring of the year. We got up around nine oclock, leisurely  took breakfast, just as leisurely filed our flight plan while the men warmed up our planes, and finally about 10:30 AM we were ready to go. What a day to taxi into the wind, give her the gun, race down the runway, and lift into the air, climbing swiftly out of the valley.

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ployed by the Army disclosed that one of the blades was 5/16" out of line (the Navy only allows 1/8") and 8º degrees out of pitch. Evidently the men who had installed the new props had gotten it "out of tooth" - in fine, not properly aligned with certain markings on the hub and blade. The time necessary to fix it would make it too late to leave for Quonset, so we decided to stay all night. You will note that Newburgh is just a few miles above West Point and is just a little below Hyde Park. Whenever the President spends a few days at home a squadron of P-47s from Mitchell Field flys up and stands by at Stewart Field as a precautionary measure. The latter field is being used mainly for the training of a portion of the West Point Cadets who will graduate right into the Air Corps. It is beautiful country, this Duchess County and Upper Hudson area. It has a settled, peaceful appearance, and the wooded hills and grassy glens look like something out of Washington Irving (I wonder if I have used a proper simile?) Sunday morning dawned bright and clear, a wonderful sunshiny day in the spring of the year. We got up around nine oclock, leisurely took breakfast, just as leisurely filed our flight plan while the men warmed up our planes, and finally about 10:30 AM we were ready to go. What a day to taxi into the wind, give her the gun, race down the runway, and lift into the air, climbing swiftly out of the valley.