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WALTER COMES TO GRIEF IN A WHEAT FIELD
At Pendleton, I was flying out of a wheat field in a Standard plane with Hispano 50 hp engine. The field of wheat had been cut with
a combine which kicks the straw out in bunches. Apparently, I wasn't watching out ahead, as I should have, for when I was part way
down the field, I ran into one of these bunches of straw, the plane went up on its nose part way and broke its prop. I phoned La
Grande and they sent over a new prop and was flying the next day. But, I did see the Rodeo that afternoon, one of the best I have
ever seen.
SELECTION FROM WALTER'S JOURNAL
THE STANDARD J-1 PLANE
The Standard J-1 is a two-seat primary trainer developed
from the earlier Sloan and Standard H-series aircraft designed by Charles Healey Day. When the U.S. entered WW I, the Army ordered
the aircraft (then known as the SJ) produced as a supplement to the Curtiss Jenny then in production. At about the same time, Standard
introduced an advanced version of the SJ called the JR. The Army bought only six of the JR-series aircraft, but some of the JR's
features were incorporated into the SJ production aircraft; the resulting version became known as the J-1
Similar in appearance to the JN-4, the J-1 was said to be more difficult to fly and never gained the
popularity of the legendary Jenny.
Information courtesy of the U.S. Air Force Museum
Gallery 5
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