South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-07-30
JULY 30. 1922
CHICAGO. IS MINUTES.


assent TO the request Of C. ". Scott that the
chine be landed in Chicago IN just forty minutes.
Mr. Scott hnancier and airplane enthusiast. asked
for speed He wanted 20 meet some associates be-
fore MS Office closed.
Stinson failed 20 make good. 10 took him 45
minutes 20 bring the great crcllng bird earth
Chicago. He missed his order by minutes.
The plane. an all metal affair with horse
power engine had four passengers. The editor OF
the News-Times was OF those who rode in the
limousine body, as comfortably in any motor
end with many less Jars
Three minutes after tho plane lert the field at
Notre Dame. II was 1900 feet above the Country
Club. The lakes golf appeared be
about tho size OF city block. white shirt of
q golf player looked like spot OF whitewash upon
a field OF green The automobiles that were rarked
at the club house might have been doll Ouggies.
Then the nose OF this machine turned into the
air and when iaporte showed beneath, discernable
largely a cloud OF smoke from its factories the
meter showed a heighth OF 5000 feet
Lake Michigan fifteen or twenty miles away
seemed almost beneath and its little waves, break
ing along the shores. were filed with black SPOTS
the caps or bathers. The nymphs at Michigan
City might have been ants. viewed from that dis
lance thousand feet makes some difference
in viewpoint II those feet happened to be measured
downward the
Great fields OF grain the woods the rivers and
The little canal at Gary did not seem nearly as i'm
portant as they do when you ride past them a
train or over the auto roads.
II was November when the plane reached Gary,
for by that time stinson who had found the roads
rutted and rough, had chosen a path It a level OF
$500 feet The air filed with heated
pockets and the plane rose and fell with rather
diseoncerting regularity until the mile mark had
lassed There the air crisp a Thanks
giving morning and the passengers who had found
the lower levels too warm for coats began to wish
for listers
The pilot holding his plane an easy level and
Gazing over lake and fields, felt the need OF
cigaret. lighted and turned TO tell his pas
sengers that the ship then travelling at about
12O miles hour. To him It was commonplace
To one OF the passengers. least It more than
new and there very keen interest when the
mechanic switched a lever 10 change the flow Of
gasoline 20 the second tank.
There was sputter OF the engine for thirty sec
onds before Il again began It's rythmical and eomni-
ferrous beating and there quick drop of the
airpIane a part OF the operation.
n the ride to Chicago IN IS minutes marks
record civilian experience in eliminating dis
lance believe that the 80 seconds when that shift
was made also made d record for the longest space
OF time. When more the nose OF the plane
rointed 20 thu skies and the engine ito COM
fortng explosion year or ten or dozen would
be a quite accurate measure OF the time when 1t
had stopped for the moment.
The last mile was the worst-that mile when the
pilot saw Tar below dot that the hangar
Cor his machine located far out to the south west
OF Chicago. The last mile the one from the
high level to the ground and made over a
spiral road might find It's duplicate on the earth
in the winding roads some mountain in the
Rockies.
The plane came down IN great sweeping circles.
turned a. graceful angle falling it came and
coming nearer and nearer to the ground.
The automobiles which had appeared like nies
crawling along the white lines OF Sidewalk. be-
came large again. had been less than
plsmles when viewed from the sky were once again
FUN statured.
There was humping as light as that made by
pebble IN paved street little jar. stopping
OF the motor and the party which had been in
south Bend three quarters OF an hour before, was
now on the outskirts OF Chicago. nearly hundred
miles away
How soon VIII every person in this city be TAX
ing a similar ride
T. VIII be in much less tlus than many imagine.
The experience Is one that chases away fear and
invites a repetition The air habit is quite as seduc-
tive and as gripping the auto habit
Il appears safe from the mile heighth. safe and
terribly slow The sensation Of speed is gone, for
the only measurement is through the comparisons
az The ground below and when miles brought
20 -re size OF cty blocks when entire cities
40 larger .han an ordinary pasture field. when men
become does and houses mere srecks. the high rate
of speed checked by comparison and disappears
almost entireI% Looking tnto the skies and ,
from earth &c would appear that the plane was
standing s,.U and not moving at ALL
The next invention in aerouautics viii be de-
vice which VIII permit the landing OF planes the
tops OF great buildings The speed OF today viii
probably be trebled within the next three years.
IS that time enough people viii have flown
planes as 10 make the experience more than COM
nonrlace There viii probably time
when people viii 20 ride IN plane devoted
10 carrying mail and express as people today would
-esent the idea OF riding on a freight car.
The important thing happened The plane took
away One boy declared that he would ride
in one OF those things and that The earth looked
good him
Twenty other boys begged FOR ride That
picture OF America-tWenty 20 one IN enthusiasts,
~ boyishness. IN desires the
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