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Nearing Biloxi, Mississippi, I?ran into lirht rains and overcast, and as it was now completely dark I decided that if the poor weather conditions continued it looked improbable that I would go on to Galveston.
I reached the New Orleans Airport at 6:29 P.M. and the weather-was atill threatening. There wns a surface wind of 25 miles per hour which mad? Lake Pontchartrain too roup-h to land on after dark with safety.
I decided/that, since I had accomplished whet I had set out to do and that-ainoe my family and friends were waiting
for me at New Orleans, I would land in the'Industrial Canal about
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one mile Southwest of*the New Orleans Airport.
Although the oanal is very narrow and there was a 25-mile
cross wind, I was thoroughly familiar with the conditions here
so I swung around to tb*South and mode a long, low approaoh to
compensate for the opqif^wind and get in position to "feel? for
the water, it being totally dark and 1 wa3 unable to see the surface
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I landed without any difficulty and taxied up on the .	?	V ';!-<?
*'beachf where my fyi?n4#'V>.w?re waiting for me.
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examined aad the'	stopped and removed from the airplane.
i>he most pleftf?nt part of the flight was the welcome
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1 r*oeived when I landed, and the only time I was frightened &t
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any^time was in being Interviewed over Station WWL at the end
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