First flight (colour litho)

First flight. Two boys, 13-year-old Eddie Gates and 11-year-old Roy Brosseau, who entered the airport in Mastic (New York), board an unattended monoplane and take off. The device reaches a certain altitude, flies over Suffolk County, and after an hour it lands on the track from which it started. Two airmen who had witnessed the last stretch of flight run towards the plane whose pilot they did not see and are in front of the two boys. Eddie had flown the plane following the instructions of his companion who had prepared himself by reading a flight manual. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 30 September 1956.