The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-05
NO SOONER SAID THAN DONE

While Ernest E. Breech wos telling Bendix Avio-
ton Corporation stockholders that the day OF QUITO
matte fIyno" is just around the corner Army publicity
officers we're releasing the strange toIe OF tour
nootored transport that flew 1000 miles otter its crew
had boied OUT
The Consolidated Liberotor-type plane, you will
remember, had started for South America when ~
miles out, bad toll futter was noticed Pilot K. T.
UImer ordered his five crew members ond two Poss-
eneers to bail out
When they had cleared he headed the plane out
to SEQ, set the automatic pilot for level flight and
took to his own parachute Reversing its course, the
abandoned plane flew to Mexico and crashed against
mountain side.
Experts warn that too much significance should
not be read into the incident The plane did change
its course which would not be permissible in the fool
proof automatic machine Of the future. 1t did crash
into O mountain side instead Of making perfect
landing on preseeoted oirfield and then taxing up
to the administration building or freight shed.
The present-doy oirpIone still lacks something
of what Mr. Breech had in mind when he told his
stockholders about the oomponys progress in devel-
opina ovoton instruments, and then odded:
Developments to dote make it possible for me
flying coming within the next few years.
But by some quirk Of fote the currently standard
automatic controls chose to emphasize Mr.. Breechs
prediction by showing how close already have
come to tornorrow's miracles
It is eosier now, because Of the flying Dutch
mans" accidental feet to believe that within few
-yeors the element Of humon may be more
important in the air than on the ground.
Everybody, almost, vents to fly We ore look
ing forward to the doy when pones-perhops auto
nnoble-bodied heIioopters-w be as simple, os sofe,
os convenient as motor cors are now. The engineers
say we won't have long to wait. The flying Dutch
man" makes the engineers look like good prophets
HANDY!
The little eodgets thot getting hard to GET
they were handy, weren't they2 Something for the
Kitchen or the cellar workshop or the home garage
What becomes Of these fonior things when they
vanish? They just make room for other godgets other
little handy eodeets
Thot con Of chemical that would do the work Of
ten men, that new sproy gun, thot magic fix-oII if
you're missing them now look for them in the news
of botte-between the lines Of course for you don't
see them among the owords for herosm In differ.
ent form they ore there though
Toke the thot initiates rubber fe-roft for
the pilot who hos boed out the ocean; it's just
small contoiner Of eos-you could put it O
kitchen shelf, and it hardly would be noticed Or
take the can Of something other thot men odrift
in the ocean can pour onto the voters, that spreads
and makes great potch Of yellow that con be seen
by rescuers for obove
Just eodeets-the housewife hos long been TO-
nlior with similar oids. Yes, just eodoets-but
hondy!-From The Christon Science Monitor
Just hint to the stolwort gentlemen who heove
the galvanized receptacle containing our weekly
waste up onto the motor vehicle thot collects it
thrice weekly: Be gentle, brethren. In the present
metal strinoenoy it's hard, if not impossible, to re-.
splpce sold receptocle-From The Christion Science