Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 5, 1917, Page 4

180 MILES AN HOUR Latest Battie Pianes Marvels of Mechanical Perfection. DEFY EVEN STRONG GALE Hurricans Nowadays Alone Keeps Avt~ ators From Making Flights—Sense of Spesd Entirely Lost In the Clouds. Golliding With “Air Bumps"—Engine Prevents Freezing. “It's exciting at times; but, generally speaking, it’s rather less sport than a motorcycle,” says a *“wing” subaltern of the British flying corps, according to a correspondent of the New York Trib- une with the British armies in France. He chatted while tinkering with his machine—one of the latest types in a the aeroplane almost from hour to hour. There were marvels of the air two years ago that have no more relation to the machines cf today than the clumsy attempts of a barnyard fowl to the flight of a swallow. An aerial scout that cannot register in the neigh- borhood of 140 miles an hour cannot be classed as truly modern. This speed is caBled for in “level air,” not in running “down hill” or in diving out of a loop. You may attain 180 miles ax hour do- ing that. No Sense of Speed. “QOh, yes, the fighting’s fun!” resum- ed the subaltern. “It's when you go paddling through the air on patrol duty for four or five hours and nothing hap- pens that flying becomes monotonous. In spite of the almost unbelievable speed at which you go you have no sense of speed whatever—nothing like the thrill of forty or fifty miles an hour in a motor, with the trees whizzing by abd a bumpy road beneath you. “Sometimes the air is bumpy, too, and that’s good sport. To collide with an air bump is almost like hitting a big rock in the road. They generally lark near a cloud bank and give you an awful jolt when you least expect it. On dull days, when the air is smooth, you can get a little practice aud excitement by throwing her about a bit, for when you get to close quar- ters ia a fight you need all the stunts she’ll do. In the air one doesn’t even get the sensation of the wind that you get on the ground.” Winhds Are Scorned. Which latter fact may account for the absolute contempt in which the modern army fllers look upon the mightiest blasts old Boreas can blow. It was not so long ago that a ten mile ‘breezé would upset all flylng plans for a day; now nothing short of a hurri- cane can deter the intrepid aviators of the aliles. They laugh at a gale and can almost take a nap while com- fortably ‘riding a thirty mile wind. The real enemy elements are low clouds and ground mists. ‘After a few more earnest remarks on the monotony of patrol work in smooth air, which he Hkened to driv- ing a motor truck along a cement road in a desert, the subaltern climbed into the “cabin” of his machine. It was a wasplike affair, with the imprisoned power of a hundred horses throbbing ia its wonderful engine. Its guns Were attached unobtrusively to the framework and synchronized where mecessary to shoot through the bBlades of the fast whirring propeller in front. The “cabin” of a modern aeroplane suggests the pilot house of a palatial yuacht in minjature. Everything is fin- ished in hardwood, and there are pol- isbed nickel instruments to indicate #peed, height, angle and everything an sir man ought to know. There are in- genious sights for the guns and range finders for bomb dropping and a little &evice to tell that the bombs have been peoperly released in turn and are hurtling on their way to the objective selected for attack. ‘When he fs tucked away only the pllot's head is visible above the free- board. Directly in front of him is a tiuy little half moon of a windshield. “You can lower that in summer time and get more air,” grinned the subal- em. Engine Prevents Freezing. “But what about freezing in the Wwinter time?” was suggested. “Ob,” he replied, “that all depends Wpon the machine. This little scout, for fastance, with the engine in front of 'you, is as warm as toast even when you are 15,000 feet up and the mer- cury bas long dropped below zero. You get all the warmth of the exhaust and cah stay up indefinitely. The plane WiRth the propeller and engine in front 18 a tractor. The ‘pusher’ has engine and propeller in the rear. In one of those you get the full effect of the cold, and you just naturally freeze, that’s all.” The control of the fighting aeroplane Bas Been reduceqd to the simplicity of a single lever. By moving this a few ibches one way or another and with occasional feot pressure on the rudders one can climb, dive, loop, side slip, fall & couple of thousand feet and flatten edt “as right as rain.” You always Bave one hand free for the machine #un, and if necessary you can let the Iever look out for itself for minutes at & time and use both hands for fighting. Or if the trip is a long one, you can let Rer float while you eat luncheon. 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