The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-09
iSh Officer Describes
/ Dangers OF Flying
dBy Associated Press. }

to depend upon were de-
by Captain B. C. Hucks, of
val Flying Corps, in an ad-
aon Modern Airmanship,"
he recently delivered before
10 nautical Society Describ-
Experience of his own he said
lame "tumbled about" in the
nd that he emerged from it
nearly upside down. Captain
mas emphasizing the mead of
ument that would show an
In the clouds whether he was
&orizontally He said:
out on very cloudy, windy
10 a test climb to 10000 feet
xte type two-seater. On reach
1oO feet we got into 4 dense
fiond, but carried On Leyond
6.0oo feet, still in the cloud. when
the compass apparently began TO
sving although actually it is the
machine that begins to swing, not
the eompass. Efforts to check the
compass had the effect of causing i;
to swing more violently in the other
direcfIon. The air speed then rIsheG
uD ~ beyond normal flying speed
: All oRorts to pull her up checked
her only slightly. Then the rudder
was tried Back went the air speed
"a G6r0. There was an unusual un-
r.Anny foeling of being detached FROM
&c tha r6Schine and | knew her 10 be
d iifeFnilYg tumbling about in the
u cioIi6 All efforts to settle down
be af.nir u straight flying seemed to
~ s,xaNniling, until we emerged
NV frO16 ~ cloud very nearly upside
II. aoWW
o ~ days ago a squadron COM
10 n nv told me that On one occasion
,c,i, xhesf III France everything loose in
IL ma&hine fell out while in a cloud.
wSof aor so ago. on the south
~ .,arf. = machine disintegrated itself
''oN n 65tktd and the main planes land
ol hGlE a mile from the fuselage
fsn II Slo6d you can see nothing what.
yef Guk your machine There is n
ed ixed rdfht visible.
to c.'8 The only means by which you car
tain ciI if you are flying in a straight
;ana oursS h by your compass and YOU
avn ~ aiaa& The compass should give
oin.i on v0tlr direction horizontally, YOU
is 4 ir SPEED speed your direction YER
cally.
onnor "Bsfore your compass starts t
{ love your machine has alread.
liz % ,arted u turn You rudder the op
. vsosite Wv to check it, over-correc
,,.nsa ana turn sharper the other wa
,oi-l bank turn then the nose drop
I'D spoed goes up. Pulling pac
:, BUR elevator lever has little or n
: Tect, for if you are banked abov
angie of As degrees the elevate
49, comes the rudder. All this occur
lthout the pilot being in the leaS
eo vare * the position his machine
!. king relatve to the ground.
..c i Captain Hucks said the rate
r.,pr0s@ment in aircraft was
rs armi&tly rapid that manufactures
. s,nld o6rcely keep pace. Comparin
!, .;s.e avoeAge performance of five di
ao,ere 'ent eypes of machines used
e beGinnin Of the war with OF
o. 16te patterns he said th'
.ximum speed for level flying hS
arly doubled Horsepower w
re tAnh doubled
- q AirEnship had advanced mo
III Yin n WOULD have done in eight
ysnG1 of peace conditions and I
sanco neemed to have been 9loi
at nllght be called convention
Cl1ss-that is. improvement or t
J nda51 designs, and no good resu
Cad hooa obtained from any drpal
from that standard To his mi
provements in engines were
uer nsiblo for present-day perfor
,es to4A far greater extern IN
rouCnent in machines.
ooi1 the most marked deTel'
mNTyIae - The modern machine Is
~actty Cor climbing. At the
ming q the war, he said. the
Cas % Ao1ght uown on active serv
- 4,ooo to 5000 feet Today
I yst = 10000 feet is reached
rogToB continues heights a gr
boyUnd this figure Will
med - usual thing.