The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-21
Famed Pilot Tells of Great Risks In- volved, Including Stunts Like Chang ing Planes in Flight; and How Disaster May Be Avoided

also parachute folded tightly against his ~oach. ~ ohce aown on the ground or ice his nrst move will be to fling himself flat to the ground or catch hold of some protection to prevent himself from being carried away by peak VIII work quickly A man cannot live long under such conditions with oxygen and the warmest Of warm clothes His first step will be toward some Of the padded bacs containing oxygen tanks. additional clothing and other supplies which have been thrown near the spot upon which he first landed These bags would be brightly colored in yart- ous hues easily distinguishable. The oxygen supply in the small bottle he carried with him would last only for ten fifteen minutes and he must get bigger bottle to attach to. the tube projecting from his mask If in- struments for scientific observations are re- qtIired they may also be contained fin these bags. Unlike his theoretical rival, the climber, the man on the mountain top can in advance decide upon taking with him any thing he wishes These bags if they con- tained anything of great weight. would, of course. be planted on previous flight made only by the pilot. The different colors would enable the adventurer to tell the difference between one containing oxygen and with food or anything else.
 The parachute strapped to the back of tho man on the mountain is needed not only for the ordinary possibilities of trouble in the air. but also in the event that the landing in the great wind is made at a place where steep slopes are menacingly near. If he did go over it is certain that the terrific wind would blow him clear of the mountain
 Some first hand experience ccnvinces me that a man who wants to leave a mountain top i1 the teeth of bowling gale may do without trouble. In order to test out para chute intended using in the Gorden Bennett race I went up in a plane at Garden City with the silk life saver strapped securely to my back. We making seventy five miles hour I crawled out the wing to make the jump from the tip in order to avoid the tail In that wind speed 1t possible to move. although the pressure the body decidedly heavy. At the tip. looking backward gave the ring a jerk had packed that parachute myself. and I wasn't certain had done it right, Nas highly interested in the result
 The big silk bundle shot out in tumble
 of cords and material until 1t reached the
 end of the cords attaching 1t to Then
 suddenly the parachute opened wide. In
 stantly I jerl1ed off the wing. For a few seconds thereafter gravity had absolutely
 nothing to do with my movements. I was
 pulled horizontally backwards for hundreds
 Of feet before I lost foot of altitude. Then my weight pulled down under the big silk
 umbrella, and. osciIlating considerably. the
 chute and started for earth We got there.
 That experienced convinced that in free
 moving air man has little to fear in Ieav-
 ing such abrupt declivity a mountain
 peak
 How the Successful Aviator
 Will Plant His Flag on Summit
 Returning to our man on Everest. he must
 after getting his big oxygen bottle. e.ialb
 to the peak. if he is not already there, plant r. his flag or make his observations, and get If ready to leave before his circulation quics. V His biggest difficulty is going to be to keep |, his fingers warm Even with the wd-mest , of fur lined buckslkin gloves they may be # come like clubs on the way down the ladder. ., In the plane, of course. electric gloves wi-h f warming current from storage battery ~ ~ or generator are used in this sort of work. r While the observer is the mountain U, the man in the plane will be busy taking 1I photographs of him from the air. For this A " special airplane camera attached to some D. part of the plane and operated by a trigger IT, in the pilots cockpit is used. This type. rS like q fixed machine gun, is sighted by h. heading the plane at the object to be photo s. Grsphed shot and then letting go the as trigger
 II Fifteen minutes or half an hour after the r. man has landed he will be ready to leave. 'e He has two alternatives. If the wind is still D. favorable he may crouch behind some rock % or ice bank while the pilot manGuvres direct an ly over him and gradually settles down so he the rope ladder, twenty or thirty feet long. ye danglcs before him Then up that ladder, he with his oxygen tank and parachute. he must in climb safety in the plane. If this is not It. feasible he still has a method of leaving the q mountain. That is the parachute As the he one he carries his back is emergency e. chute of quick descending pattern. it will he be advisable to another. which is. of
 course. in. one Of the bags previously thrown no overheard The bigger the chute the faster be and further he will be carried from the peak -, or the edge of the precipice from which he = makes his little leap. In this case he fsn',
 at all where he is going 10 land but he
 is headed for thicker air and solid earth
 
 as unknown territory around the mountain tho ts plane will follow order to observe the spot lE where he lands. The maps plans mad, he Of the country beforehand will be valuable ch here. for the pilot will probably be unable
 L, land within miles Uf the chute Jumper 'y- Once landed the big difficulties are over ar for the man out in the wilderness is hookes n up with his camp by the plane, which cal nd bring him maps, compass. food. firearms. o
 anything else he requires he The conquest of Mount Everest by air a plane may seem weirdy imaginative but Is am convinced that if the peak is ever CT. reached it will be in this simila or way The human heart has certain Emita IFS lions very easily reached in high attitudes riy and if cannot get to Mount Everest
 high point by the most improved method O ng transportation he cannot get there by tn we most primitive
 file Such an expedition would be long, costly ld- dangerous and unpleasant, but it would b ne interesting. and the pursuit of the interestin on Is closely connected with the pursuit of hap -en piness Why not be blown off the highes ,ed mountain peak in the world trying to q ing something worth while when any day gern zen may lay you low?