The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-02-26
MAKING TRAVEL
BY Air SAFE
Wireless Telephone viii Do Much
70 Insure Speedy Mail
Deliveries.
british EXPERTS At WORK
When NsW System 10 Working Prop
sriy Pilsts VIII Be In Constant
Tevch With Ground by Means
Of Wireless.

Tsvoh Win Ground BY Means
Of Wireless.
LsAdon.-Will the aerial mail serv-
ice. when Its organization has been
Improved. still continue to be inter
rupted by such adverse weather ~
anx1Ag the past week prevented on
several days the flying OF the mail
machines between London and Paris
Asked this question the other day By
= representative Of the London Times,
HOLT Thomas, whose high speed b.
planes carry the London-Paris mail,
replied with an emphatic mo-"
At present he explained, we are
AyfnS daily over what IL. to large
extent. still an unorganized route; and
IT Is no exaggeration at all to say that
when al the organization which we
are busily preparing is brought &C
tually into play, as 1t will be before
We have to encounter another winter.
such conditions as prevented Lieuten-
ant HcAullin from getting through
- Paris on the first day of the air
nAtl last Monday will have no adj
verse effect at all on the flying Of =
machine, either from the point Of view
, q Bafety or Of adhering to scheduled
oas.
Wireless telegraphy will help ~
s0efmously and we have now the
services Of one of the most practical
experts in this country, who II con-
centrat1ng his attention exclusively on
the question as to how directional
wireless and the wireless telephone
may be made to help us In regular
6a1ly flying and to overcome such
ll@cult1es as ut present cause delay.
Information for Plano Pilot.
When we have this system working
properly 1t viii mean that during our
Aeors Of flying, say from IL o'clock to
p. M, every land operator will be
and pilot having set out say from
Aounslow. and wishing to know ex-
actly what the weather is like In the
channel, w1lr simply take up his re-
es1ver and call Hello, Lympne" All
the other stations on the airway will
Near. but only Lympne will reply and
IN moment the pilot will be given
the Information he requires. 1t will
also be quite easy for one pilot to
0eak to another while two machines
are in night
In each machine, also, we shall
place light telescope mast. This
viii be jointed and will lie In the
fuselage without taking up any room.
But should a pilot have to make =
compulsory descent he will on alight-
Ing take out his mast, Joint 1t together
and place the aerial" Of his wire
less telephone on the top of 1t. Then,
when he has raised this mast and
stuck the end Of 1t in the ground
It will be about 80 feet high when
fully extended--he will be able to call
up the nearest aerodrome on his wire
less telephone and tell them just what
Held he is down In and what his
trouble Is. In such a case, II a man
cannot ascend again quickly, we shall
send another machine to him from the
nearest relief point, which will take
On his mails. We shall soon have Z
system. both on the English ana
French sections OF the route, whereby
. pilot who has forced landing can
get into touch Immediately with the |
nearest land agent Of the service, who |
Will take over his mails at once and |
send them on their way in fast mo-
tsrcycle.
The point is now demonstrated very
clearly that with a skillful pilot and
Z fast machine the only sort Of at
conditions which seriously
flying is such as we en-
counter sometimes on a bad November
day, when an opaque mist, beginning
almost at ground level, may extend
upward, In an unbrOken mass, to an
altitude Of something like 10000 fest.
hurtIlns Through the Fog
A pilot in an airplane. dying on
through a thick mist, IL as unhappy
~ . pedestrian in dense fog-only
moro 50. Not only is there the auss-
don Of finding his way. but he Il
heed also by the embarrassing fact
hat, through not being able to turn
liz eye upon any horizon line. he can
,ot Judge the altitude or inclination
II his machine In relation to the
yround below, with the result that he
nay get into a side slip or spin and
nd suddenly that his machine has
,asoed out of his control condition
Z Affairs which may spell extreme
DoriL
Then we expect very soon to have
improved considerably the instru-
nents In q machine which tell its
,ilot its altitude and inclination when
. 10 deprived by fog or cloud q
orixon line. Then, as yet another
sant, We are working On the question
{ lighting aerodomes and landing
rounds so that a pilot can make .
ne contact with the ground even
vhen the air is heavily obscured. ,
His Il, Of course. point Of capital
nportance. 1t il not enough to-
uids 4 man accurately while he II
y1ne In misty weather. You must
Soie to insure him also q sa6s