The sun., 1918-12-01

Astonishing and Sudden Development From Almost Moth
ing to 600 Machines Annually Despite Enormous
Handicaps-Unlnited Possibilities Seemingly in
Sight-Marvels of Modern Flights
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would have regarded you with suspi-
cion. You know that what the direc-
tor of the Poughkeepsie Asylum for
the Insane said to Curtiss only eight
years ago, when on his fight down the
Hudson he landed on one OF the sur
rounding fields for more gasolene:
Yes, come right in; this is where all
the airplape cranks end up, anyway"
switch of Effort.
So til > fact that the war stops doesn't
matter much in the airplane game
Filters are going to explore the blue
oceans OF air overhead as navigators
for centuries have been exploring the
blue seas below the air. They are
going to run the Niagaras OF unknown
air cataracts, which are the curse OF
motor flying, and to chart the lakes OF
clouds and TO mark with danger sig
nails the bad pools above mountain
peaks, just as discoveries and explor-
ers have been charting the surface of
the globe.
There viii be switch OF effort, that
Is all, from war ends to Industrial
ends; and the Industrial discoveries
pnd explorations are fraught with all
the romance and adventure of the old
uavigators who charted the earth.
We are going to chart the air and in
,harting the air chart new routes for
the human spirit.
In fact, the deeper you go into air
! discoveries and psychic discoveries the
| more analogies you and between them
| ba q.
discovered in fighting flight and proved
by mathematics, that the force keep
| ing the a!rplane up IS about one-third
air pressure on lower surface and two
| thirds pull of vacuum above the wing
surface. l haven't expressed that in
scientific formula, but you grasp the
| significance.
| Why doesn't the plane go all the
way up to Mars then? Glenn Curtiss
predicts ii will easily so up eight miles
within few years. Why not all the
way to Mars? Because of lot OF
things. There isn't air for the wings
to hang on or the propeller to bite into
| We haven't devised anything to keep
the man in the cockpit from flying to
| pieces from decreased atmospheric
pressure, though we have devised an
oxygen tank for his breath.
Spiritual UpIift Also.
All right. Take the analogy in the
spirit. Haven't YOU known people who
would have spent their entire lives in
rut or hog wallow-with apologies
TO polite ears-if fate had not given
them a terrific lifting kick? The one.
third upward pressure Of the air
well say. After that, if they didn't
come down dead, a something In the
Inspiration of their own spirit-or the
spirit Of God in them-hed them to I'M
dreamed achievenients-the two-thirds
pull Of the vacuum. we'll say.
Or take the other analogy Of an air
man falling to his death from a grea
altitude. Onlookers have related how
when the airplane began whistiinp
earthward in "A fatal tail spin they
turned away and shut their eyes ant
covered their cars before the tina
death crash. That crash haunts the
dreams and shakes the nerves of be-
glnners in the air game. Il needn't
for the man was dead before he hit tn,
ground.
When the falling speed reaches 21(
to $50 miles an hour the vacuum ere
ated stops heart action and fills III,
lungs with blood. The man is dead
Inc spiritual analogy need hardly b
followed out. 1t isn't the final crasi
of a spiritual going to pieces tina
need concern us. 1t is the beg1nnin,
or the falling process, when tn,
/, wings of the spirit might right a mai
and don't.
But to come down to earth of har,
facts: DO you realize it was only ii
1903 that \ little Is horse cover con
traption devised by the Wr!ghts took
flop in the air and called itself an air
plane? To-day we have $50 horse
power engines that have assembled al
, most 10000 feet and flown thousand
Of miles, and by putting three O
, those engines in one plane we hav
: 1850 horsepower contraptions cara
BILE OF carrying air passengers fror
, London to Egypt or New York TO Lon
!. don.
y War Forced Progress.
e We have done the first because wa
= compelled il. We haven't done tn
D second yet. but we are going to
: very, very soon.
5 Do you realize it was only in 100
, that the June Bug airplane took buz
= Of 1000 yards, and another contraptio
S later accomplished the seemingly i'm
possible feat OF flying down the Iud
5 son. amid floods of ridicule from scep
. teal critics and an invitation from a