 To my Beloved Brother Pilots and Pals....I go west, but with a cheerful heart. I hope what small sacrifice I have made may be useful to the cause.
When we fly we are fools, they say. When we are dead we weren't half-bad fellows. But everyone in this wonderful aviation service is doing the world far more good than the public can appreciate. We risk our necks: we give our lives; we perfect a service for the benefit of the world at large. They, mind you, are the ones who call us fools. But stick to it boys. I am still very much with you all. See you all again. Leonard Brooke Hyde-Pearson offered these words for all of the air mail pioneers in a letter "to be opened only after my death."This aviator, who willingly accepted the challenge of the early air mail was one of three who died in 1924. Hyde-Pearson's DeHavilland biplane went down in the Alleghenies of Pennsylvania after fog enveloped his plane while en route to Bellefonte.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Report Broken Links