WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20.1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
KU Professor Is Flying Enthusiast
BY DICK MARSHALL
Latest reports from the K.U. secret service and Chicken Every Sunday club say that a flying wolf is loose on the campus. No, girls, this isn't a new type campus Casanova, so you can stop your wishful thinking.
This strange sounding, but by no means strange being is James Wolf, assistant professor of electrical engineering. He learned to fly in 1940 at the University of Rochester where he took civilian pilot training. However, he was engaged for radar work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the war and was unable to join the air corps.
Professor Wolf owns two airplanes, a Piper Cub and a Stinson Voyager, which he bought second hand about three years ago. He uses his planes primarily for business purposes.
"Flying is cheaper for cross country travel than the automobile, and it is much quicker. However it isn't as fast as people think," he said.
The Cub is powered by a 65-horsepower engine and is flown at an average speed of 75 miles an hour.
"Currently a Cub in good shape can be purchased for about $450," he said.
The Stinson is a four-passenger plane, powered by a 165-horsepower engine and will fly at an average speed of 115 miles an hour.
"Once when I was flying over Wisconsin I had to land on Lake Winnebago because of fog. It was the opening day of the ice fishing season and I was afraid of running down an ice fisherman, or getting a wheel caught in one of the holes in the ice. But I made it."
Because of the fog, Professor Wolf had to land with the door of the plane open in order to see what was
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ahead of him. He also had to taxi the plane about five miles across the lake to reach a telephone.
"I was wearing only a suit and the slush from the melting snow was blowing in through the open door. Before I reached a house where I could use a telephone I was sitting in a puddle of ice water. I thought I was going to freeze at any moment." He agreed that this wasn't a hair-raising experience, but it was certainly spine-chilling.
"The ice fishermen were surprised to see an airplane taxiing across the lake, but people are always surprised to see an airplane land on their property or nearby."
He parked the plane in the front yard of a house at the edge of the lake and asked the lady of the house if he could use the phone to call the airport. He had to get back to K.U. so he left the plane there. About five days later when the fog had lifted a man from the airport came out and flew the plane back. Professor Wolf picked up the plane on his next business trip to Milwaukee.
Another time, he landed in a farmers alfalfa field in Iowa, and was met with the same surprised expression when, upon asking to use the phone, he told the farmer he had landed in an airplane.
"The thing about flying is the weather. It's always nice when you go somewhere but getting back is the problem. I spent the summer of 1949 in Washington, D.C., and was on my way home to see the family when I had to land at Jefferson City, Mo, because of the weather. I was anxious to see my family but I had to wait a few days until the weather cleared."
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For the first time in four years a Kansas student failed to win one of the 32 Rhodes scholarships. Wilson E. O'Connell of the University and Paul Olsen of Bethany college were eliminated by the district committee.
Four scholarships were awarded in the six-state area including Kansas. Iowa ranked first with two students. Missouri and Nebraska had one each and Minnesota, South Dakota, and Kansas had none.
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"I like flying. There are no road hazards or traffic jams to put up with, and when you fly 500 miles you are not as tired as you would be if you had driven 500 miles. But I'm strictly a fair-weather flyer."
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