Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19
STUDENT TELLS OF STALKING
PLANE AT HIGH ALTITUDE
Aircraft Begins Falling Sidewise When
Climbing Too Rapidly-Instructor Tells
How to Straie hten Out Course.

My instructor. being wise one and
cool-headed, and knowing we had
| plenty of altitude let me 90 ahead |
was trying to keep the nose of the plane
| level with the top of the haze. instead
! Of the top Of where the horizon should
| have been.
! tried a turn. Suddenly the rush of
! the air against my face ceased l felt
something was wrong but didn't know
what, Then tried to work the con-
| trolls They tapped about easily, show
! Ing that they were having no effect. /
had climbed her so steeply that we lost
flying speed and stalled. Then a terrific
blast Of air hit the side Of my face We
had come out Of the stall and we're fall
ing sideways.
Instructor Cites Error.
The instructor said through the
phone, You held the stick back and
climbed her too steeply. Now hold II
forward as far as you can so We can so
into dive, Soon as you feel the wind
against us and YOU know we are diving,
pull the stick back gently so as to ease
US out of it,
AS the earth began to appear def
nitely ahead of us through the haze
We we're diving toward it gradually
pulled the stick back and we straight
ened out.
You fell 400 or 500 feet from that
stall. the instructor said. "Wouldn't do
TO stall too close to the earth. would ~
Taking of at $50 O'Clock the next
morning with my instructor We found
me air over the New Jerseysmeadows so
sun the plane few smoothly. For the
nrSt time, the instructor turned the
controls over to me when we were only
a lew hundred feet up. / was able to
cIlmb and ny the plane about the coun-
try in big circles or fgure-eights. turn
ing II easily at times for a forsv over
some bay or lake that seemed attractive.
l did this for about an hour.
Guess you've had about enough Of
TINS. the instructor said through the
earphones. You won't learn much this
way, Your hour is about up Move
me control stick forward so as to point
the nose OF the plane down. I'll show
you the proper gliding angle"
l nosed the plane forward and the
roar of the motor died away as he
throttled 1t down. The earth tipped I'D.
the horizon rose above our nose. The
landing f1eld seemed to move toward us
There was only the shrilling of the
wind through the wires and struts and
It's GOODNESS on my face as we swung
down in wide circles A quarter Of
mile from the field and we were flying
hardly so feet over the meadows.
Gives Flying Order.
Hold your controls lightly. but don't
interfere with me. and feel how I land
the plane" the instructor said.
AS we lost speed for the landing.
could feel the controls being swished
about widely and more quickly than
when the plane is moving fast. This
was because they are less effective at
low speed with correspondingly low
air pressure.
We dropped to the ground so lightly
there was no feeling of touching it. We
had made perfect three point" land
ing; that is. the two landing wheels
and the tail skid all touched the ground
at the same time. so the strain OF
landing was evenly distributed.
Next Sunday Brown will tell how he put
the plane into a spin and how, with the
instructors cool and calm words floating
INTO his ears through the speakinS tubes,
ne recovered.
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