[AAC Cadet Leader]

Mom's Log
Day 39
Tuesday, July 5
Arizona
Tucson, Prescott and Scottsdale.
Called R. Finkenbine (correspondent) he was working today. Met Trey Johnson at Prescott’s (Embry Ridelle Air View.) at 4:00. They followed 4 UPS trucks trying to track down Martha’s shipment of Air Adventurers wing pins that she to gives to her pilots. Pins COD pkg. $800 on its way back to Florida for not having been picked up after four notices. They found the right UPS truck at a gas station getting ready to leave that was about to take the package back to the UPS station to send it back to Florida!

Three TV stations and two newspapers photographed Martha [and Brandon] on take off from Tucson to Prescott. They landed first at Scottsdale where the Arizona Republic News covered - page B5.

Day 40
Wednesday, July 6
Arizona to California
Prescott to Corona
Martha picked up the package containing clothes, etcetera that I sent to Trey Johnson’s home in Arizona. She made calls to her California contacts I’d given her then she left with Brandon Gentry in his Aeronca Champ for Corona at 11a.m. They said they flew over the outer, eastern edge of the Los Angeles area’s brown, thick smog layer into Corona, California. Martha said she’d never seen anything like it. It was unbelievable flying into southern California for the first time.

[It looked very distinct, like an overcast layer of clouds, except that it was a yucky yellowish-brown, instead of white and the air above was a beautiful, clear blue. We took a deep breath just before we sunk down into it, as we descended for the airport approach.]

They arrived at Corona Airport @ 4 PM then had dinner at the airport restaurant with Brandon Gentry and his stepfather. Wore the long white skirt and blouse I sent. She stayed on the airfield in a small furnished, uninhabited, air-conditioned Scotty’s Trailer. The daytime temperature outside was over 100 degrees.