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Sometimes, on a return trip, the aviator would `` go upstairs '' high over the clouds.

There he'd take a compass reading, figure his air speed, and deduce that in a certain number of minutes he'd be over the broad meadows of the Merrimack Valley where it would be safe to let down through the overcast and see the ground before it hit him.

Bob Fogg didn't have today's advantages of Instrument Flight and Ground Control Approach systems.

At the end of the calculated time he'd nose the Waco down through the cloud bank and hope to break through where some feature of the winter landscape would be recognizable.