Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-02-20
PERFECT WIRELESS TELEPHONE IS
AMERICAS GREATEST WAR SECRET
For Months American iTpanes Here and in Europe Have Been
Equipped With Apparatus By Which Their Movements Were
Directed by Voice Comma ad--HarGest Tests Fail to
Impair lis Complete Efficiency.

Lieut. Hudson II. Scoring took the air
in De Hayiland at Hazelhurst field,
at an order from General Kenly.
Looks Like Ordinary Transmltter.
Colonel Culver took what looked to
be an ordinary telephone transmitter
in his hand. This transmitter was
connected by a wire with a small wire
less plant built on the field. Lieuten-
ant Scoring had receiver in his he'll
met but no transmitter so he had
been instructed to indicate Eyes" by
a slight forward tip of his machine,
and mo" by waving his plane from
side TO side, much the same as boat
rocking in the water.
When Scoring was $500 feet in the
air and perhaps half a mile from
where the party was standing Colonel
Culver, speaking into the transmitter
in tone only slightly above normal,
said
"Can you hear me, SeeringT
Instantly the machine took a for
ward dip.
do you hear me clearlyf' asked
Colonel Culver.
The machine took another forward
dip.
Are you coldY was the next ques-
tion.
The machine instantly began rock
ing from side to side.
well, climb bit higher" ordered
Colonel Culver.
Without q second of delay Lieuten-
ant Scoring started up.
THAT'S high enough" said Colonel
Culver.
The machine flattened out.
Then followed a bewildering series
Of stunts each in response to a
vocal order from the ground, the flyer
doing nothing on his own initiative.
During Lieutenant Seerings flight, he
ranged from $500 feet to $500 feet
altitude. At no time was he more
than three miles from where General
Kenly and Colonel Culver stood.
Neither his altitude nor his distance
from the transmitter, however, affect
cd his ability to hear whatever was
said to him.
From Hazlehurst field General Ken
Ty took his party to Roosevelt field,
where the performance given was so
remarkable that it threw into the
shade the test made with Lieutenant
Scoring, astonishing as that seemed
at the time. Nineteen battle planes,
the Swiftest Of The De Huylands,
equipped with Liberty motors, took
the air at once. They were command
ed by Maj. Joseph Il. RoSsell, acting
as squadron commander. Eighteen of
The pilots were equipped with receiv-
ing apparatus. Major Rossell alone
had a tranSmitter equipment.
This air fleet shot off into the south
at speed of 1870 miles an hour, but
soon returned in a formation. Major
RosSell flying higher and well behind
his squadron. Passing over Roosevelt
field the squadron went through sew
eral maneuvers, forming right lines
and left lines, breaking of in differ
ent directions and swinging back into
line again. Everything was done with
perfect precision.
Colonel Culver explained that Major
Rossell was giving every order by
word OF mouth and that every man IN
the feet was getting orders at the ex-
act instant
Now if you want to you can stand
here on the ground and hear Major
Rossell give these orders, and you can
ut the same time that you hear them
see them carried out" said Colonel
Culver.
He bed us 10 a small shack from the