Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1925, Page 78

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOV R 8, EMB 5. 1925—PART Explorers Face Unusual Perils on Smashed Plane in Jun Two Aviators, Veterans in the Wilds, Lost From an Exp American Wilderness-Hopping Off for the Journey—Guarding Against Star- vation—A Forcecl Danger and a New Perplexity—Ex- g P perience in a Tropical Downpour. Some Observations flight same n airplane. some form | Whenever to find Indians showing unconcern, day after day, To them it was merely f a bird! Indians had no apparatus. was for the hoarded curlosity 1o ex Their one white man's | whitenes: Ours was a skin they loved to touch! We were the first white men they had seen. They act- ’PI] as if we were divine heinge. | "I'say thie of the onex we saw. The edition in a South | | e our amine the veneration others are unknown quantities. The Indians attached to the Rice expedi- | tion as canoe paddlers and baggage | bearers always warned of fierce men |in the trees ahead. The trade winds through the day are severe In this country, and as the place where we were to land was at |a narrow bend in the river, difficult for landing, we wanted to get there in the [late afternoon when the wind was at Landing—A Real of Primitive Life. and hardship to the full. In a comparitively short career as a flver, have fallen to the lot Walter Hinton, formerly a lieutenant in the United States Navy Air Service nlisting in 1918, he was selected in May of the following year as one of the pilots of the hydroplane NC-4 in its memorable and epoch making hop from Newfoundland via the Azores to England. The trip was made as a test of the teasibility of transatlantic flights On December 13, 1920, Lieut. Hin ton, with two brother officers. left Rockaway Beach, Long Tsland. for a day's flight in a naval halloon To their amazement, they came down the next day near a Hudson Ray trading post in the w f Canada, finally reaching human habitations affer trudging weary miles through a trackless forest In intenge cold, attended by a gnaw ing hunger. But the outside world they were lost until January 3. when a message announcing they were safe was received Since resigning from the Naval Air Service Lieut. Hinton has made flights for several private ventures, including that for the Alexander Hamilton Rice expedition to the tribu of the Amazon River, here narrated BY WALTER HINTON. GOOD many vears of my life have heen given over to aerial adventures. | am not hoping to convince any one that these adventures have not meant ex citement for me, but curiousiy enough the greatest nervous excitement has not come at the times when it wc 1 have seemed most excusable I had no fear or mental agitation of any kind on the first crossing of the Atlantic by airplane. 1 was one of the two lots of the ['nited States Navy's 4. The crew was in serv- ice and was ordered to make the flight We made one long hop from Trepassey | Bay. Newfoundlaid, to Ponta del Gada, | the Azores, thex another hop to Lis hon, Portugal. and then on up to} Plymouth, Engand | it was an excellently organized un jertaking. with the hest possible equip. ment then available. Navy ships were stretehed out on the course. The crew | was painstakingly selected. Now that | it has long since been completed. I am sorry to find that the romantic pos. sibilities were so much neglected. At the time it was Just a job to all of us. and there was hardly a misgiving that | we might not survive the attempt. So far as perils are concerned we | were much more in danger when we flew the NC-4 over the waterways of the Middle West in the interest of re- | iting for the Navy. Landing and taking off that big flying boat on rivera had possibilities of crashes every day that were never existent while cross ing the wide Atlantic. The balloon flight from Rockaway RBeach into the wilds of (‘anada. when we wers caught in n blizzard and carried ap near Moose Factory, being lost to Sommunication for 20 days, caused qualms to my two companions and myself that now seem laughable Our groatest fear in the air was that we would land, either of our own volition or because of lack of ballast, gome distance from a raiiroad station and that we would be forced to walk. When we did come down on the second day, after our halloon had crashed on A tree, we were sure we had landed somewhere in New York State, and were afraid we might i our supper. Well e missed severa suppers, and those first nights we mistook wolf howls for barking dogs and plunged through desolate forests looking for barnyards When we finally followed some small atream down to the Kskimo fur trading camp at Moose Factory we could hardly believe that we were almost as near the Arctic Sea as Rockaway Beach! Of course, we practically starved in that time. but we expected a hospitable New York State farmer to turn up every min ute. That was my first experience with ha\lconr'* Adventure P FTHE most colorful adventure I have had was tha first flight between North and South America, from New York to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. that I made in the interest of a New York | newspaper. We were obliged to_stop at six island capitals in the West Indies, the three capitals of the Guianas, and the capital of every At Jantic Coast State of Brazil, from Para 10 Rio, excepting Ceara, in the inter est of Pan-American friendliness The enormous crowds of hospitable | people, the generosity of governors and other officials, the keen interest in the first airplane to be scen in the harbors in which we landed, made this flight a memorable one in my experience. Its theill lay ahead—a diMcult landing place in a “mall harbor basin, the chance that there might he floating logs in jungle vivers, which a fiving boat coming down at 60 to 70 miles an hour must irv to avold new afr and current con ditions never hefore encountered The troubles we had were small mechanfcal bhreaks. and wera very irksome because private flight of this nature it well-nigh impossible to ship stores of extra parts ahead, such as ix done on all distance filghts organized governments 4 But the most exasperating, alarm ing, dumbfounding expérience in my career occurred just a few weeks ago in the northern Amazon jungle. T \was a member of the Alexander Ham ilton Rice 10241923 scientific expedi tion that went up the Amazon and its northern tributaries. the Rios Negro and Branco, ultimately discov. aring the headwaters of the hitherto unexplored Parima River, near the Venezuelan border. The function of the airplane in this expedition was to assist in mapping. fo wcout routes for explorers. to ve connoiter_over villages and e sl | nnfriendly Indians.. Over these v w;ng{-‘: = dropped down beads. fish | hooks and pocket knives, attached to | parachutes, and the expedition expe- | Tlenced no hostility whatever from Any of the many tribes It visited to conduct its research into Indian lan uages and customs | et o Stevens of the United | States Army accompanied me on these | two and three hour flights, as ob-| sarver and map maker. Iew men have | had his aerial training. He holds the world'a record for an altitude par: chute drop. jumping 23,000 feet from the airplane piloted by St. John Me Cready over McCook Fleld, near Day t 0. fn 1923, O OMIY avens And 1 wera missing | for ten dave when we were deep in the jungle with the Rice party, and | ] am sure neither of us¢ wants that) Eaperience again. The fact that we in what might be with thes on A wag its deytime lull. The trade wind, be- ing behind us, sent us up the 90 miles n about an hour. By the way, in that waves 90 miles the river climbs 730 feet, and the s 78 of the miles, according to the map. tog pers, are flled with boulders and shal- low ‘rapids. the worst kind of water for a seaplane landing. Down in the swift stream we fockey- ed around and then I put on power io nd up lost by the Rie <hort tell for happened were missing s was radioed to New expedition’s very efficient transmitter. T shall now st time wh really Stevens and me. o x given { 1 “HE base camp on the day that we ‘started was at Roa Ksperanza, | which ix 530 miles up river from |We were to reconnofter for the camp Mianaos. a big city on the Rio Negro|site. It also was in our instructions near ft< junction with the Amazon.{to spend the night at the site, because We had made a flight up the Rlio[of the early dusk. and return to Boa Urai-cuera from Boa Esperanza, had|Isperanza the next dav. Rut mapped the river. and Dr. Rice want.|was our luck, the muddy river con- ed us to fly up about 90 miles | cealed a houlder that struck the deli to a site he had picked on our map | cate hull of our seaplane, bashing in as one suftable for an advance eamp, a bad hole that at once let in water. which the expedition would re quire at least one month to progress. apt. Stevens and 1 in the little Curtis Sea-gull seaplane pushed off at_about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. We had found air conditions to be best over the jungle in the late afternoon K * x o » PHERE war no danger of our cap- sizing. The seapline hull was fitted with several automobile tubes, fully inflated, and these would have given sufficient buoyancy to have held up the plane. Besides, Capt. Stevens and 1 could have swum to safety. caused worry was that the would become so waterlogged should not be able to take off water was pouring in There was only one thing to do, and that was, in spite of the spreading | twilight, to get back into the air and | attempt to make the base camp at Boa Esperanza, 90 miles away, directly in the face of the trade wind that would slow us down to a 50-mile-an | hour speed | Capt. Stevens, with his aviation ex | perience, immediately get awav. He crankéd up, and off we | went. T circled a couple of times for altitude. and soon the Rio Urari-cuer was a little silvery ribhon helow us silvery in the twilight | The twilight wax a problem. Near | the equator, ae we wers, night falls, | figuratively, with the suddenness of & lowering curtain. We knew we could | follow that river for an hour or longer, | but it was narrow, rocky, and furlous { with running water. and how were we |to make a landing when the light would utterly fafl us? | After we had flown a half hour the | duskiness incrensed so rapidly we had difficulty in making out the trees hor dering the river. I decided it was hest to descend while we could vet see water, spend the night {n our ham | moc and then take off for camp in the morning. 1 siznaled to Capt | Stevens; he agreed, and down we | came. | Because of the | sary make a power aviator should always the wind wherever counter current of air helps to make his landing smooth. He throtiles down his engine for such a landing. When you land across a current of alr it is the | necessary to keep the engine going plane we The, wind 1t was landing land againat possible. This necas WALTER HINTON, FORMER NA. An VAL AVIATOR. WHO PARTICI- PATED IN THE TRANSATLAN- TIC FLIGHT. to We had on of trinkets for board the the usual stock Indians and the | for drive up on a little sandy beach that | uch | What | saw our need to | hull. Water rises and falls with amaz- ing rapidity in jungle rivers, and there was nothing for us to do but wait for an ebb that would permit us to get at _the hole. This was disgusting. We were anx- 10us to get back to camp, and the re pair was only a matter of a few min- utes. We had marine glue, screws and screwdrivers in our kit. Unhappily, we sat down to wait for the water to recede. With luck we might have had enough recession that day to let us get at the repair. But luck wax not with us, and it was soon evident that we had better begin prep- arations for taking care of our mount ing appetites or we should lose vital ity and become subject to jungle fevers, Capt. Stevena hunted brush wood for our camp fire while I got busy with the fish hooks. Using a ball of farina as bait and strips of my shirt for lines, we soon had a mess of fish ready ir first meal away from camp. ven without seasoning they did- not taste bad. We were very hungry Our table n ners might have been subject to criticism For one thing, we had no table, no plate, no knives, no forks. We fried the fish by piercing them with a stick and holding them over the fire. We were to have many fish break tasts, dinners and suppers at that #pot and each one was to taste less and less savory until finally we would become sickened at the thought of having to catch the fish, prepare, toast and eat them But we had to live! Four days went was still high over the sandy of our still Capt. Rtevens is a wonderful man in an emergency of this sort. Nothing teazed him any day, excepting the montony of unseasoned fish! 1 really helieve he grew to like our camp, al though neither of us could sleep well with the swarmea of voraclous insects buzzing about us all night. We koon gave up the idea of keep- ing watch at night! We would have entertained being visited by the most warlike of Indlans. We wanted a change. and wanted it badly! The in secte kept us on the alert, so that even in a drowse we probably could have heard the pad of a bare Indian foot in the middie of the night—but we heard nothing but the whining song of death of the insects: However, on the fifth day naked Indiane broke through the jungle on our side of the river and slowly approached us. 1 was using a machete at the time to cut brush wood. and a machete or knife of any | kind has a fascination for an Indian. One of the Indians stepped up to me and tried to take hold of the machete. | We had a bit of a tussle, and then Capt. Stevens and I were able to con vince them that If they kept on down | the river thev would come to a white man's camp where machetex would be given them. This wa& true. Dr Rice presented many machetes to the azilinn Indians, which was a great hoon to them. as nothing is better than a macheie for trall blazing * o ox o N that fifth day the river quickly receded until our seaplane was | ®0on high and dry. The hot equatorial ok the dampness out of the hull quickly, and we wasted no time in making the repair by, and the river The water swirled beach around the how senplane, then it got higher Ly J - But now we faced another perplex-| ity! We would have to wait until the | viver rose again to give flotatlon to our plane. 1t was too heavy to move We could have improvised rollers, but a special truck ie needed to move a seaplane Dhecause of the necessarily fragile wood In | hull. On that fearly tragie balloon flight I had been elected custodian of the one box of matches during our wan- deringe back to civilization, and T am proud to say that never once was it necessary to use a second match light a camp fire Down in the Brazilian jungle I again husbanded the matches. \We never wasted one. If any one saw us going about our fish dinner it must have been A most amusing sight! Our faces were contorted with disgust as we canght and prepared the fish When It came time to light the fire, if we had not kept It going because of short- | age of brush wood, I would ceremonl. | ously get down on my knees and un wrap the box of matches from wad of covering to protect against damp nee A match would be cautlously three | ex tracted and a careful hold taken of it with three fingers of my right hand My left hand, Capt. Rtevens' hands and a screen of palm leaves then went into action to prevent a puff of wind from killing the match flame or ax tinguishing the brush. It must have been laughable Capt. Stevens had his camera with him and made a few pictures of our compulsory camp, but he hasn’t one of our match-lighting ritual. He did get one interesiing picture of a rock that we found near the river when we were fishing. It had curious Indian hieroglyphs on it, circles with lines runaing down from them in various directions. We found a berry with hlood-red julce which 1 smeared into the marking on the stone %o that Capt. Stevens might photograph the hleroglyphs for our sclentific party kot 1T days—nine of the tenth day awakened before dawn Adownpour. The rain kept up! That could mean ten dave. Dawn ! We had been by a heavy only one thing, a river full of water from brim to brim in & short time The line of water kept rising. Soor it was under the tail of our seaplane and kept ris We neglected our fishing. Our ca fire was out and our brush-wood sc ed Still we were exhilarated Iy fooding water that xoon would rai our afreraft until it would float Tired, impatient, and on edge we were, neither Capt. Stevens 7 myself could restrain wroad smiles and an occasional velp of delight. \Wher the seaplane first bobbed in the tide we both shouted with joy All this time wat was over us, our long halr being into our beard It was just had been standing under bath “Throw out the anchor We had to anchor, It would have been difficult to have taken off in that deluge. We waited until noon. St the downpour kept up. We had not eaten both ef hated the other night on the heack the danger that the Rice » that prosy day here w party had __“A BOWLDER STRUCK THE DELICATE HULL OF OUR SEAPLANE, SMASHING A BAD HOLE. THE WATER WAS POURING IN.” us 1 lost and had her given up anc At 3 nake ternoon ‘we dec t proved t an npt er the same and 1 Aff 1@ must can ade « ir expe The cheers nd have down with Jungle to fiy the pl es down the rive Though 1 was 1 decided tha to get the 1 use tor m hospita little parachutes to carry them safely | full on, otherwise vou would almost | down We had one day's emergendy pro visions. two hammocks, and the fish hooks and matches that every member of the Rice expedition who went away | by. I put on full power and drove from a camp or main party carried| the plane at full speed through the with him for life insurance. The |water and as on far to the beach as it rivers of Brazil are filled with ex-| would siide cellent edible fish, and a fish hook | We built a camp fire, and declded to or two and a box of matches guar-|gsleep in watches. It was a jungle coun- antee against starvation for a short try with a question mark in vour time. {mind. No' very dangerous game We abounds in Amazonas, but there are strong | certainly fall hard into the water in- stead of gliding into it gradually as you should There was a bit of sandy heach near flew up the Rio and because a wind was blowing. carryving us far over the primeval forests. we climbed to an altitude of 3.000 feet, to make sure we had a safe gliding angle which would carry us back to the river in case our motor led us During the hour's flving we saw no Indians and therefore did not per. form our office of sending down th zifts In parachutes. On other trips naked Indiane heside thatched huts would look languidly up at us. It was an odd experience on this jungle 1y Ingects in thelr trillions. The anly protection against the insects is mos- quito netting. and we promptly | swathed ourselves in thix netting, and tried to compose ourselves for a sup. perless evening e ARLY the next up at dawn, and found to our chagrin that the water had risen in the night, covering the break in our morning we were B e “A STRONG WIND WAS BLOWING, CARRYING US FAR OVER THE PRIMEVAL FORESTS.” deadly snakes in abundance and dead- | BY EMERSON RANDALL. Lieut. Alford J. the Navy' crack rvacing pllot, ~ recently startied an _ennul-affiicted world with his five-mile-a minute speed in a Curtls plane, he | set every one to asking. “What next?” And well may the question be put, for there seems tn be no limit in alght | for speed through the air. Men who | are closely in touch with fiving aftaira dare not make definite forecasts for the future, but they all agree that the five-mile-a mipute speed attained by the Navy pilot 1% likely to be exceed- ed any day. ‘How fast can we flv?” brought a variety of Answers from a group of Uncle Sam's fiving sons, gathered at Mitchel Field, Long Island. While a sensation would be much different at 500 miles | “With the continual Improvements | that are being made in ships and en- | gines 1 beliéve it only to be a matter | of dayk or weeks hefore greater speeds | than five miles a minute will be rather ommonplace, and it will not be long, | either, before we shall be able to do | 500 milex an hour. That would seem to be about the limit in speed, but . who knows? It is not so long ago that | 100 miles an hour was thought mi- | raculous and now we have reached 300 and better. Is 1,000 miles an hour | possible? Quien sabe? I'm willing to | | make the try if some one will produce | | the ship with the necessary strength | |and engine power. And, considering | the rapld progress that is being made such a ship ix llable to be evolved ship, there will be plenty of lads | | diversity of opinion was expressed. the | aimost any day Given the proper | doughty aeronauts would not denv|with the ability to fiy it." | that science will make it possible for | 2 | the driving of planes through the air e A | at the seemingly incredible speed of 1,000 miles an hour. In contemplating a speed of 1,000 | miles an hour the human brain is al. most made fo _reel. A plane capable of sustained flight at such a speed |and I've decided to stay away from the could circle the world at the equator | office for a couple of days, so I'll fy | within the span of a day! And vet|over to Peking tomorrow and accept these quiet-spoken chape, who dally|the invitation of the Mandarin of Fly perform feats that would have numb- | gwat to play a round of golf on the | ed with terror the brain of mankind | VR0 FRY 7 a generation ago. predict thal fiying| "oy \¢ aight to China 1s not such a will he as commonplace to the com- t | The seneration as was' bleyclariding | #114 fight of the imagination an might to_the last he thought, either. With planes cap. | “In attaining able of 500 miles an hour, the 6,000- | | epeed Lisut. Willlame shot through |mile jaunt to Far Cathav could be | | the air at the rate of 302 miles an|made in i2 hours. Tt is all within the realm of possibility and aiso prob- | | hour. and he says he did not ex- 3 | perience any appreciable difference be- | ability. There are skeptics, of course doubters who will acoff until the feat | | { HEN | liams, | wil OON we may expect the Tired Rusi- nees Man to remark, casually, the wife of his bosom “I need a hit of exercise, my dear, l is five-mile-a-minute tween that tremendous speed and an | ordinary plane rate of 100 miles an|has been atcomplished, and even then Ry | will remain unconvinced. Fulton had | | hix scoffers, and yvet the steamboat be- | | came an actuality. Stevenson met with | 5 . ana | Mkeptics aplenty and yet we have the HE feat of Lieut. Willlame and|j,comotive, and the Wright brothers the speed demonstrations of other | pag their full shiare of gibes, After | fiyers fire the imagination to the point [all, skepticism {8 a human trait that | where the realization of Jules Verne's will ever be with us. Consider the | “Trip to the Moon” seems more and | Man from Rixing Sun. Ind., who, when more of a probability and less of a|frst beholding a camel’ exciaimed wild_dream. When (hat same wildly | e i T imaginative French story writer offer- | 5 i 6, Pimctinl fYer and student of ed his novel Avound the World In|any, to excel Lient. Cyrus Bettis of | Bighty Days” folk gasped at the|the Army, who not so long ago won | eftrontery of his fictionized forecant| the Pulitzer race, attaining a record | Today it ie almost possible to make|Speed for the distance. Pale of face, the earth clrcuit in A bit more than | H&ht of bulld and with horn-rimmed eight days. glasses, Lieut. Bettis gives the im. | “With properly located sarvice sta- tions, permitting of taking on gas. ofl and water every even hours, a world flight could bhe made in our present machines in eight daye and fifteen houre.” seriously stated one of the Army’s mogt experianced pilots. “And in making such a flight T cal culate on A basis of 125 miles an hour, which i nn tremendous speed. I allow fifteen minutes for refueling; a sufficient time at a well-equipped station. Seven hours l& about the limit of flight without refueling, and that would mean twenty-eight stops in a_ world-encircling flight of, say, 25,000 miles. The actual fiying time would be elght days and eight hours, with seven additional hours for re- fueling, or a total of elght davs and | fifteen hours for the journey. “How does it feel to fly at the rate of five miles a minute?” Lieut. Wil liams repeated the interrogation. “Well, if it wasn't belng shown you on vour air speedmeter you would never know the terrific rate at which you were traveling. I knew, of course, how fast 1 was going, but if it had not been for the thrill I recefved in knowing that I was making a record I might just ax well have been going along at a good clip. “I had long cherished the ambition | of fiving at a 300.mile-an-hour rate, but when I found T was doing this and better there was not so much kick in it as T had expected. Tt didn't seem much different from 200 or 250 miles an hour. Of courss, you know you are going like héll when your air speedmeter showe 300 miles an heur and things on the ground are hop-singing by, but I don't bellave the * x ok % At b i ) e B pression to those who know him not of being a psychology instructor fresh.water college. He belies his looks, does this soldier cf the air. He has been described as a mathe matical fiver. He is exact in all that he does and seems to calculate in ad- vance every move of the ship he con trols Stunt fiving is not his forte. Not that he cannot loop the loop and perform the aerial feats that make beholders gasp, but he prefers the straightaway In flying. In distance fiights and in a race Bettis fears no competition. Lieut. Bettis had just in aropped his home station, with all the non- chalance of a debutante stepping to the center of a baliroom floor. When he had methodically divested himself of his goggles, helmet and flying jacket and lighted a cigarette he took up the subject of fiving possibilities. “General apeaking, 1 might say that there is no limit to the speed at which men may fly,” stated the apeedy Army pilot. “Men will be able to fly as fast as shipa will carry them. The problem of speed is not one of human | ability. is purely a mechanical problem. As engine power is in- creased we will, of course. obtain greater speed. but with the increase of engines we shall have to increae the size of planes and also enhance their resistance, for the strain on a ship grows as speed grows EE 1t ‘THE advent of wireless plays an important part in the develop- ment of the airplane. Experiments have already shown that it is possible to guide a plane from the ground. With the further development of this idea it is possible that planes may he propeiled at speeds of 1,000 miles and directed to any location desired. The only concern of a pllot in such a plane would be with the takeoff and the landing. “Today it s possible to make the | to New includes hours, flight from San Francisco York in 30 hours, and that refueling about every seven in a| 1 at Mitchel Field from Seifridge Field, | | | | The alr mail is making the transcon- | tinental fiight regularly in 34 hours and no one seems to think it very un- usual. The advances made in science of aviation are so rapid that the general public does not seem aware of the tremendous strides being taken. Probably the many startling accomplishments of sclence in recent has made e gy o the | | Chicago proof. Anything seems possible and nothing eems impossible. ‘Should the wireless control of air planes be made practical, and basing my opinions on the success of the ex- periments that have already been conducted, there is no reason why a plane_should not be dispatched from say, Mitchel Field and guided unerringly to a station in Bombay. “I believe that in the machines ti will be in everyday use the helicopt principle will play an important The development of machines along helicopter lines will mean the ability of the pilot to take off from a smal space, and by the same token he wil be able to land in a circumscribed and somewhat restricted ar The evolv Ing of such & machine will mean that landing stations will be erected on the tops of city buildings. Already we see the signs of the times in the ne post office, which will have a landing stage upon its roof for mail planes “Fast flying makes no appreciable difference to the experienced pilot over ordinary speed. Were it not for the rapid passing over landmarks and the gpead indicator. he would not he able to tell whether he was traveling At 200 or 300 miles an hour. Given the engind power and the properly designed machines, we shall be able to fiy at a 500-mile rate without notice able strain. In fast fiying the indication of speed to the pilot when he seeks to change direction A resume of the answers from fiy landing | ing men in the Army and Navy and in commercial lines to the question How fast can we flv? would make appear that there is no limit {ndicate The once-nccepted theory that man speed in the alr would be limited by his physical ability to withstand the dizzy rush through the ether seems to be as much upset as the proverbial apple-cart. Our modern emulators of the bold Icarus are flylng close to the sun, but science is keeping apace with their winging, and problems that rack ed the brains of our pioneer aviators are being rapidly solved us we attaln to birdlike ablility. LR AFI‘ER talking with many practical fiving men, it can be stated that a speed of 500 miles an hour is not considered an impossibility, nor they of the mind that the day is are far | the public surprise- ' distant when such a rapid transitior T housand Miles an Hour Possible in Future ~those At er speeds . upon the he applic the depend, ment of g talking nd b Powe h 1 e hese s wh tie “Why | there be any t. Mar wh upside down “Whe and which pace bou appear “New then 300 m And e £ that they are not racing by The experin planes ation by ra In f evise an engine that be controlled by rad n an apy and a ship desig great can Siieeql ENATE 16 Tin iYen \ <s being made ir at the airplane the airplane omor as the ox-cart of old to the automobile of now. How fast can | iy’ Wow 1 grow dizzy when | K of the speed that is coming tv thi us one that © fiyers =, The - speed requires refueling hours. The more of aviation be ghts across the At will be factlitated ¢ floating ng problem fs s suived before o can hope to make long jur average ship of any worth-wl in operation today about every seven imaginat fo lieve that plane antic and the Pac by the establishment sta CURTISS RACING PLANE USED BY LIEUT. AL WILLIAMS IN THE PULITZER RACES. Coprright by Underwond & Undarweed.