The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-25
In New York
Rr PAUL HARRISON.

eight wheeler that he. won bis fame; it was in airplanes, begin ming with the fragile crates of the early days and leading right up to modern-day airliners.
 Casey Jones--real name Charles sherman Jones--is one of the few early flyers who have made a ca reer of the game and saved money, fame and their necks out of 1t. For a good many years he was the country's best-known commercial pilot. Now he's a swivel-chair avi- ator with his own school of aero- nautics. and his students do their practicing in a dummy airplane mounted on a rotating pedestal on the second floor of a Manhattan office building.
 He rspecializes in radio beam and instrument flying, and has been able to reproduce actual conditions so accurately that veterans trying out the dummy plane get to think
 ing that they're crossing the Al- lelghenies toward Newark. Radio earphones are clamped on the pilot, a hood is drawn over the cockpit. and away he goes. The trick is following the radio beam, audible through steady, beeping signals which give warning of any devta- ton from the course. s
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 Jones gives students most of their training right there in the building; then, when he gets them into>a real ship. they're able to stay on the track. The instructor never was deliberately spectacular flyer, because he had grim lesson in caution back in his high school days in Castleton. Vt. A friend who taught him to fly was himself kill ed shortly afterward.
 Casey has taught blind flying to scores of practical pilots, among them Roger Woolfe Kahn and Hugh Herndon, Also Colonel" Hubert Julian, Harlem's Black Eagle. Julian. has been threaten l ing for years to hop the Atlantic, but his only crossings have been made by liner. He's on the other side now, being cold-shouldered by the emperor of Abyssinia, one of WuO8G PkAACS AO GAaSAN0 NY 41A ing.a a previous visit.
 Colonel Julian used to be a sort of protge of Clarence Chamber lin, who was amused by the brav- ado of the Harlem hero. There was, for instance, that memorable day when Julian asked Chamber lin to take him mp to do a little l parachute jumping. Explained that he didn't want to get out Of practice. Strutting Around
 They went up, and time after time chamberlin banked the ship and signaled the negro to Jump. But he didn't jump: just sat there and shook his head. So the pilot landed and suggested that maybe he'd better try a puH-off-that Is, stand on a wing, open his chute, and allow it to yank hi mon in reasonable safety. Julian thought that would be all right. so he got on a wing and up they went again. Chamberlin gained his altitude
 and again began banking and sigs naIihg for his passengers depar- ture. Julian just stood there, frozen to a strut, grasping 1t until his knuckles were white. The pilot was reluctant to try q landing with the pride of Harlem out thert on the wing, 50 he. decided Ito throw him off. Whipped the
 ship viciously, and. away into tspace went the sepia colonel, strut and all. Somehow he. managed to
 yank his .ripcord and land safely, lbut when Chamberlin got down,
 with a dangerously dapping wing. Julian was standing there, still frozen by fright, and stiI .lgrasp- ling a hunk of the airplane.
 Hits Ceiling
 Author Of Ceiling zero,"c an
 ayiation melodrauia now chilling
 the spines of enthusiastic, custolm- |ers on Broadway, is Lieut-Com-
 mander Frank Wead, who knows
 all about his subject. He went from Peoria, H., to Annapolis. and
 from there into naval aviation. He
 held five world records at one time.
 and in 1928 explained the 4Asneris
 can team that. defeated France,
 Italy and England for the schnei. der Cup.
 He has had several crashes. but
 survived them with scarcely .
 bruise or scratch. Then, one night lin his home in California, he slip |ped down three steps and broke his neck. No one person in ee
 survives such an injury, and Wead
 was in the hospital two years. Hi flying days seemed to De over, sc
 he decided to try to write. From
 tho beginning ho was nuccessful
 with short stories. and later %
 Hollywood seenarso author. "Ceii.
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