Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-12
JOTTIEGS FROM
MY NOTEBOOK
By RALPH NJ. MORPHETT
AIRMEN'S TRICKS.
By Clarence Winchester.

Looping the loop is prODaDly the
| most common form of 'aCrobatics.
It is also one OF the easiest tricks
airmen can perform and in some
classes of machine very little abil
4 ity is needed. as owing to their
particular design the acceptance
/ will practically loop themselves.
! provided the pilot has sufficient
confidence in them.
Before the pTesent-day airfnan
does his first loop by himself he is
taken up in an aeroplane fitted
! with two sets Of controls, and his
| instructor treats him to several
loops so that he can get acCus-
toned to the sensation and also
notice exactly how the controls
are manipulated. He is then al
| lowed to do the loop himself, the
J instructor still being in the ma
chine to prevent accidents, and IL
naIly he goes up solo for his first
independent looping exhibition.
Not so very long ago pilots
rhad to do their first loop without
any very definite ideas on the mat
ter, The trick was then consider
ed dangerous. In fact, there is the
story of a Russian military airman
who, after his first loop, was put
into the guard-room for "audacious
flying"
Another trick, now becoming
very common, is the spinning nose
dive" 1t can be done from two or
three thousand feet. The aero
plane is made to dive nose down
toward the earth, and is spun
round and round on its axis until
the pilot desires 10 latten out and
fly level again. He should not
fatten out at less than about a
thousand feet from the ground.
What is known as "the tail
slide" is accomplished by climbing
the machine nearly straight up
into the air and switching Off the
engine. The machine viii then
fail back toward the ground tail
first in a curved path until it is
level, when the engine can be
switched on again.
To roll" is to turn the machine
or roll it over sideways while it is
flying. The pilot does lot remain
| upside down when he has COM
plcted half the roll" but contin-
ues rolling" until the craft is fly
ing level again. 1t is practically a
| sideways loop. In "cart-wheeI-
ing" another simple trick, the
pilot stands his machine on its tail
and by certain movements OF his
controls makes it drop sideways or
cartwheel fashion, so that as its
nose falls the craft comes GU. in
the opposition direction to that in
which it was flying originally.
House zoOming' is q COM
mon stunt among very young
| airmen with very limited expert
| ence. As their knowledge Of fly
ing increases they become aware
| of the risks to themselves and to
the public, and then limit their
low-fying to the open country,
where they can Jump" hedges,
trees and the like without unnec-
essary risks to other people. They
must have practice, but it is I'M
wise to get it by Stunning" al
most in the street and in the gar
dens Of houses. Sudden engine
failure might mean death not only
to the pilot but to any number OF
people underneath him.
/ We are not at all sure that we
shall have any possessions. any
thing OF our own, in the future life,
anything, consequently to give
away Perhaps Il viii all belong
10 all. So let US have enough OF
giving while we can and enjoy the
best part of possession. IN
/ seIow.
Life is to be measured by action.
not by time, a man may die old at
thirty, and young at eighty; nav,
the one lives after death. and the
other persisted before he died
! Fuller.
How this lifts my present life
into the most lurid and awful
light, the thoughts: What am 1
here for? l am here that l NAV
prepare for all that lies beyond.
| What does tomorrow bring to NE?
business hours, do yOu say: oppor-
tunities for hard work and beyond
that, rest? Nay, verify; tomorrow
brings, if its light shall dawn. fur
Their hours to choose. not for today,
but forever.-MOrgan.
Life, like war. is a series Of mis-
( takes, and he is not the best gen
eTal or the best soldier who makes
/ the fewest false steps. He is the
best who wins the most splendid
/ victories by the Tetrieval Of mis-
takes, by beginning afresh. For
! get mistakes; organize victory out
/ Of Observation-Disclosures.
! Who is true man? He who does
the truth, and never holds a prin-
! ciple on which he is not prepared
| in any hour to act, and in aDv
hour TO risk the consequences OF
holding it--Carlyle.
What can a man do more than
die for his country? Live for
them. It is no longer work and
therefore a more difficult and no
bic one.-kingsley.
Be useful where Iivest, that thew
may
Both want and wish thy pres
ence still;
Kindness. good parts, great places
are the way
TO compass this. Find out mems
want and win.
And meet them there All WORLDLY
joys go less
To the one Joy OF doing kind
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