Today’s drawing depicts a single engine plane of the late forties and its three passengers. The plane did not have an electric starter like today‘s private aircraft. One had to hand-prop the plane. It is the equivalent to popping the clutch on a manual transmission auto. Fortunately, for the husband doing this cranking, the engine started the first time.
Federal aviation regulations would indeed frown on this type of flying today. The author states that, aside from being very dumb to fly in these conditions, the pilot would lose his license. In this case, assuming he was spotted on a dense, foggy, Christmas morning, that is.
The flight went well. For awhile. The density of the fog varied until it got much worse.
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