San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-21

Photo by gath Photo Section.
I;v The use of the Ruggles Orienta-
tor four OF which have just been in
sfulI,d Mt the Primary Flying School
M Brooks Field by William Guy Rug
rlrs of New York, ths inventor, in
structors ut the school hope TO do a
GOOD many things. The ORIGINATOR was
designed to teach student aviators
The use of airplane controls, and TO
familiarize them. with all positions
relative TO the earth into which n
FLYING plane may get.
The ORIGINATOR is an exact replica
of an airplane cockpit. The seat is
made exactly like the seats in air
nlaneS. the belt which straps the
iilot in is the same. the control stick
and rudder bar are the same, and
that part of the fuselage in which
the cockpit is inclosed responds ex-
;ctly the same way to the movement
of the controls as does ship in the
air. The fuselage section contain
jng the seat inclosed in three rod
Traces which move upon three DIFF
ierent sets of axis. vertical, hori-
yontal and lateral, thus permitting
The fuSelage TO rotate freely in three
dimentions.
Like an airplane, the ORIGINATOR has
dual controls, the second seat being
an the platform on which the ma
chine is mounted. An instructor can
Sit in this seat and check the move
lnents of the man in the cockpit. The
Instructor in the outside seat can also
Nobble the stick and bring about the
same movements Of the fuselage that
pilot would have to meet in flying
through air. This practice is done
after the student has mastered a per-
feet control of the various maneu
ycrs of the orientator.
Mistakes Not Fatal.
=. Mr.. Ruggles claims that for eIe-
pentary training that three orienta-
qers and seven training planes will do
The work of ten planes, thus saving
three planes and all the outside work.
time and space that they would re-
qlire.
When a student is assigned to the
orientator for training. he is not al
lowed to 90 at it blindly and do any
thing he wants TO do just because
shere is no chance of his getting hurt.
Ills instructor carefully checks him
IN his movements. He starts out to
do some certain aerial manuever, just
as n, would in, the air. II he makes
4 mistake he can try it again with
rat loss Of time or danger. but he is
not allowed to handle the controls in
y karhazard way.
Mr.. Ruggles and Mr.. Hanson are
now instructing the students at
Brooks Field in "flying' the orienta-
'-or. but this work will be turned over
10 regular field instructors when they
1eave.
(! Each student is given about Is or
20 minutes a day in the ORIGINATOR. In
.fhis time he goes through with all the
stunts and turns that an aviator has
10 learn. and it is claimed that two
hTeeks Of this kind of practice will edu-
Kate his faculties used in flying to the
iioint where an instructor can teach
1,im to handle a ship in a much short
or time than ordinarily is required.
grhr student will have formed correct
habits of muscular coordination 10
such an extent that he will handle
he stick almost instinctively. as does
Il seasoned aviator. This was illus
trated by n simph experiment that
Mr.. Ruggles has performed without
The knowledge of students or instruct
orS. He says that when a student gets
into the cockpit and the fuselage is
tilted in any direction, while he is