Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-20
AIR MOTOR FAILS IN PUZZLE WORLD
 5 IF MILES UP
Army Captain Describes His Queer Sensations While at Great Height Above Face of Earth

Got. Schroeder Of the Unlted states air service, who flew an airplane to an altitude of 2S,900 feet at Dayton, O., last month, was forced to descend the entire distance with a dead engine according to an official report of his exploit which has just been made to Major General Kenly, di' rector of military aeronautics.
 sIn his description of the remarkable flight Captain Schroeder said:
 In order to take an airplane to a higher altitude than any other pilot in the world found that it would re quire more than one or two attempts. l made three attempts. The first one took me to 24,0OO feet, the second to 27O0O feet, and the last one to 2S,9OO feet, but now I feel certain that 1 can get to SO,OOO feet.
 ''The cold, thin air is ones greatest adversary. First ofSall, one must make a study of the performance of his motor at these high attitudes.
 How 1t Felt
 ''I took off at l: AS p. m. Wednesday, September IS, 1918, and made steady circular climb, passing through clouds at 5000 feet, 12,OOO feet and 16,0OO feet. At 10000 feet, while still climbing in large circles, my goggles became frost ed, making it very difficult for me to watch my instruments.
 When I reached 25,000 feet I no ticed the sun growing very dim, could hardly hear my motor run, and felt very hungry.
 S'The trend of my thought was that it must be getting late, that evening must be coming on, but I was still climbing so thought I might as well stick to it little longer, for l knew l could reach my ceiling pretty soon, then I should go down. Even though it were dark, could land all right for had made night landings many times before. So I went to talking to myself. This I felt was a good sign to begin taking oxygen, and l did.
 Oxygen Cures All Ills
 T was then over 25,000 feet, and as soon as I started to inhale the oxygen, the sun grew brighter again, my motor began to exhaust so loud that it seem ed something must be wrong with it, l was no longer hungry, and the day seemed to be a most beautiful one. 1 felt like singing with sheer joy as gazed about through the small portion of my goggles which had no frost, due to drop of oil which had spattered on them from the motor.
 Tt was wonderful to see the very fclear blue sky with the clouds thou sands of feet below The frost on my goggles bothered me very much. At times l had to remove my gloves in order to put the warm palm of my hand on the glass to thaw the frost. did this about every ten minutes so that I could take the proper readings of the instruments, which l marked down on my data pad.
 Takes Off Goggles
 'I believe that if my goggles had been better ventilated they would not have frosted. When I was about 27,- 900 feet I had to remove my goggles as I was unable to keep a steady climb. My hands by this time were numb and worried me considerably. The cold raw air made my eyes water, and was compelled to fly with my head well down inside the cockpit.
 T kept at it until my oxygen gave out, and at that point I noticed my aneroid indicated very nearly 29 ,000 feet. The thermometer showed thirty two degrees below zero, Centigrade, and the revolutions per minute had dropped from 1900 to 1860. This is con sidered very good. But the lack of oxygen was affecting me. I was be- ginning to get cross, and could not understand why l was only 29.000 feet, after climbing for so long a time l remember that the horizon seemed to be very much out of place. but l felt that l was right and the horizon was wrong.
 Feels Better at 10000
 About this time the motor quit. was out of gasoline, so I descended in a large spiral. When I descended to about 10000 feet I began to feel much better and I realized that the lack of oxygen had affected me passed down through the clouds at 16,000 feet and, as l remember, it was showing from these clouds upon the next layer. some 4000 feet below. am not positive of this. as I may have been affected by the lack of oxygen.
 hOlACbu as u6SCeuutu lndl the air seemed to be very thick and stui- fy, but very nice and warm. did not see the ground from the time I went up through the clouds above Dayton, Ohio, until I came down through them again al 4000 feet above Canton, Ohio over 200 miles from where 1 started
 "I was lost beyond a doubt, with dead engine over very rough country landed o. k. and broke the tip of my propeller, which was standing vertical when 1 rolled into a depression in the ground. However, did not nose over or do any other damage to the plane or myself flew back to Dayton with a new propeller"
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