Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-24
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practical speed limit. When q modern
pilot flies an old-fashioned Jenny 80
miles an hour he gets impatient over
the sluggishness. You see, It's nothing
more than crawling.
Commercial flyers say they must at
| tain at least 200 miles an hour before
passenger airplane service can be made
| cheap and successful. So there still Is
demand for more speed.
THE objection / see TO flying. say, at
500 miles an hour Is the powerful shocks
and violent treatment delivered to pas
sengers by the plane.
when came third In a recent Pu-
| liter Trophy race was battered to
black and blue pulp. Every time my
plane hit an air pocket or strong cur
| rent, or when / swept around corner,
my ship punished me. The fact was
strapped to my seat and could hardly
move did not ease the pain. Even up
| holstery will not relieve high-speed
plane from delivering shocks TO pasSen-
gers. Flying straight one does not feel
| the bumps nearly so much as when
| banking or making a turn. In race
| it's dangerous to round of corners too
| sharply. In the Pulitzer race we had
| to make IL turns around triangular
| course"
| According to Lieut.. A. J. williams,
another Navy racer, planes capable of
| 500 miles an hour will be built and
| flyers will have no difiiculty In ham
| ding them--at least In straightaway
| fights. 1T Is only In turns and banks
| that the brain is starved of blood" the
| aviator says. But there are ways and
ways. as every racing pilot knows, of
making high-speed turns without Ill
effects.
since began flying in 1922 I have
seen the maximum figure on speed indi-
Gators increase from ITO to 200, go to
$50, then 10 300--on my own plane the
high mark is 302--after that comes a
wide gap.
I'VE viii not need new school of
super trained pilots for the new era.
The same men who ny our racing ships
today will do, providing Chat day comes
before they are riding around in old
mems wheel chairs. All they need Us
the training that comes with expert
ence. common sense, sharpened antici-
patton for the problems Of the impend-
ing moment, alertness to see, hear and
feel tight fix. 10 form decision and
have mental and muscular coordination
that will execute II.
In making a sharp turn at high
speed a pilot feels gripped by some ter
fIflc force. s3Deekb udflCt DeloIC Llo
eys. His vision dims and everything Is
q blur. / confess on one occasion my
brain registered not thing during
those moments Mechanically ! con-
trolled the ship in a straightaWay course
and the nausea passed of,
1T was In my first important race
and didn't dare tell my mates. for fear
they might think was trying TO spring
something new Later | asked ques-
lions and discovered other racing pilots
had had the same experience.
learned, however, not To take curves too
sharply.
THAT incident provoked considerable
comment among laymen and was large
~ responsible for the fallaey that ter
rtt1c speeds have a dangerous effect on
the brain: that the body and brain can
not stand much greater velocities than
|, reached today"
Il THE year 1919 win stand as great
! turning point In aeronautic history
Then, for the first time, the Atlantic
was crossed by an airplane. American
naval flyers. led by Lieut. Comdr. A. c.
Read. reached Europe by way Of the
! Azores Islands.
: June 4, 1919, Sir John Aicoek and
: Sir Arthur Written Brown won the
? London Daily Mails $50 900 prize by
/ making the first nonstop flight across
i the Atlantic Starting from ST. John s.