Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1927, Page 14

14 THE STK\"DAY STAR, W\<HT\GTOU. D -C. AUGUST '_’1. 10""-—T’A\RT JEUT. SCHILT ENDS 2 000-MILE TRIP [Maine Pilot in Air 310 Hours in Six Months Doing Photo Work. Marine pilot., aerial Brown Frank Schilt, pilot, pursuit and_expert on stationed at Va., has just work for fiying Lieut. C. Corps racing bombing pilot photography Field, Quantico Plished a year's bitious aviator by an am- which began the and ended two nee of quare miles Sea ris period, February he flew a dis miles, photographed 3,000 of coast lin in the Carribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, photographed 146 seaplane bases and lighthouses and took 5,000 pictures from a con- stant altitude of 10,000 feet. The achievement fell under heading of 'unxh!\(‘ service” for the pilot, who was selected to assist the | c Office of the Navy in ting the coast lines | adjacent islands and| al ‘maps for seaplane | the Atlantic and Gulf | Coasts, . Schilt wa ordered to | prepare for the expedition shortly | after the Schueider international tv‘r plane races at Norfolk last Novembe in which he won second place in the Army Curtiss racer now in the Smith- sonian Institution. Work Done in Short Time. the | { routes Without the assistance of the ai plane, the Hydrographic Office’s t uld have been laborious and y and years would have been required to complete what Lieut. Schilt, hovering | about 2 miles above the earth and | water, accomplished in a few weeks' | actual fiying. The expedition Loening Llhorn' s composed of two plan with and four airmen D of Quantico was in cotimand. and. Mying: With: Mm: was Master Technical Sergt. B. F. Belcher, also of Brown Field. Accompanying Lieut. Schilt was Sergt. H. H. Dogan, attached to the photographic squad ron at the Quantico ba; | Capt. Davis took cha of the en- tire details of the trip, while Sergt. Belcher looked the planes leaving Lieut, S and Sergt. Dogan to do the actual photographic work. Leaving Philadelphia, where the planes were obtained at the naval aircraft factory, the survey project flew down the Atlantic seaboard, mak- ing photographs of 78 lighthouses and seaplane anchorages and bases, which will form the principal land- marks on seaplane airway maps now | being mad: by the Hydrographic Office. K West was the bhase of the expedition. Here gasoline and oil had been cached and photographic films were stored*“on ice.” Used Ship as Base. From Key West the two amphibians flew to the U. S. S. Macomas, based at Cayo Fragoso, on the northern coast and lying about midway on the Island of Cuba. The Macomas was engaged in making soundings for de- tails of the charts and the photog- raphers made that ship their base. Four hundred miles of Cuban coast Mne, extending from Havana to Cayo Sabinal, stretched out before Lieut. Schilt and Sergt. Dogan. This rep- resented the actual coast line, while keys 5 to 10 miles from shore ran almost parallel for the entire dis- tance. Both the keys and the coast line were photographed. As photographic officer and pilot of the plane, Lieut. Schilt was respon- sible for the proper focus, while Sergt. Dogan did the mechanical work of opening the shutter on signal from the pilot in the front seat. Taking off from the water, Lieut. Schilt first had to climb to the 10,000 foot level and then fizure out as close as he could estimate, the force of the wind, how much it was helping or holding the plane back: whether it was from the port or starboard side; all with the view of getting a correct “range” on the target. His speed with relation to the ground depended upon the tim- ing of the exposures which ranged from 13 to 18 seconds. Held Difficult Course. In addition to keeping on a_per- fectly straight course and co-ordinat- ing the camera’s exposures with vari- ances in the speed of the plane, Lieut. Schilt at all times had to keep the ;nmp‘hlhlan at the 10,000 foot altitude eve position would have a tendency to disrupt the scale of the charts as they are prepared from the photographs. An allowance of 60 per cent overlap on the photographs had to be consid- ered by Licut. Schilt, as the pictures are jolned together in a mosaic map when assembled. From 10,000 feet the camera included an actual area 4,000 feet square, allowing for the overlap. Each film was numbered and lettered, and by these identifications Do trouble was encountered in as- sembling them in their proper places. The films were 61; by 8% inches in size. Day in and day out the amphibian eruised high above Cuba’s coast line. The plane carried fuel sufficient for four and a half hours’ flight, and for a while was able to return to its base on the original supply. Later, how- ever, as it got farther and farther away from the Macomas it was forced to depend on cmergency bases along the coast. The longest da and a half hours, averaged around four and a half and five hours’ flying. Three months were spent on the northern coast, and dur- ing this period eight flights were made back to Key West for fresh photographic films. Then the expedition cut across the foland and flew down to the Isle of Pincs and spent a week photograph- ing the coast line of that island and over two score “keys” running east about 80 miles. Upon completion of about 60 miles of coast line be- n Cayo Blanco del Sur and the fenfuegos were covered thor- This area is in the Province ara. While in the Isle of ,n the planes based on the ach and the personnel quartered on the U. 8. 8. Hannibal, graphic ship. On May 8 the airmen said farewell to Cuba_and moved back to Key West, 's work was eight while the others Any degree of change from this | ¢ another hydro- | I WHERE FLYER COVERED 22,000 MILES | accom- | 310 hours in | 22,000 | where they pitched into the task of developing and printing the hundreds of photographs taken. As they fin- ished this portion of their assignment as recefved to proceed to the ippi flood area and participate aerial relief work. e weeks s- 2. during-which the airmen piloted | engincers and inspectors over the | flooded a, searched out stranded | people, dropped food and m: | d then they returned to Pens , naval air station for an ov of the planes and a change of engines. The last half of the duty involved photographing seaplane anchorages and lighthouses between Pensacola and_Brownsville, Tex., a distance of 1,500 miles. Three hundred pictures were made en route to the Texas city, and then the films were flown back to Pensacola and developed. The coast line from Pensacola to Key West also was photographed for lighthouses and anchorages, and then the expedition broke up. route north Lieut. Schilt was 1 down on Daytona Beach with engine trouble, and it became neces: sary to install a new one. two weeks waiting for a new Liberty which had been shipped to him from Philadelphia. and with the help of a mechanic from Pensacola he and Dogan installed the new power plant. The flight to Quantico was without incident and the plane was then flown to Philadelphia, where it was deliv- ered to the naval aircraft factory. Lieut. Schif pronounced the trip free from spectacular or thrilling in- cidents. His force-down on Daytona Beach was the only delay attributed directly to the plane. Neither a land plane nor a seaplane could have ac- complished the mission with the suc- coes of the amphibian, which the pilot declared was “ideal” for that type of work. JAIL-BREAK SUSPECT UNDER HEAVY GUARD Police Try to Identify Man Be- lieved to Have Helped Murderer’s Escape. By the Associated Pre: PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 20.— Paul Wisnewski, arrested last night in Wheeling, W. Va., as a suspect in the sensational jail delivery from the Allegheny County prison, was held under heavy guard here today while detectives investigated his claim that he was working in a Wheeling steel mill at the time Paul Jawarski and John Vasbinder, convicted murderers, shot their way to freedom. Theodore Steinbrunner, a jail guard, and Paul Beiswenger, the bookkeeper, from whom the fugitives forced the keys to the jail, at first identified Wisnewski as the man who helped the murderers escape. They later with- drew their identification, however, after two women, who also witnessed the break, were equally positive he was not the man. Three detectives were sent to ‘Wheeling to check up on Wisnewski’'s Suit Alleges Slander.® Richard A. 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Frank Schilt's photographic tour i which he covered 22,000 miles six months in_a Marine Corps plane. Bolow: Lieut. Schilt. FLYING SHERIFF EXPLAINS North Caroliria Officer Says He Had California Papers for Attorney. WILMINGTON, N. C., August 20 ().—Sheriff J. O. Ammons, who was credited several days ago with having seized E. Garland Brown, former Co- lumbus County attorney, in California and to have beaten a_deputy sheriff in an airplane to the California State line, today returned to Whiteville with his_prisoner. The sheriff denied that he had brought Brown out of California without necessary legal papers. He asserted that the Governor of Cali- fornia had honored requisition papers for Brown and that Brown was the loser in habeas corpus proceedings. He said the effort to overtake him was due to starting of another habeas corpus proceeding. The Tolman Laundry IS A MODERN LAUNDRY Phones Fr. 71-72-73-74 Real Estate Loans (D. C. 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Ch indbergh | comed | the Northwent waukeeans, who Id where the Spir was brought down, lined streets for more than a mi shouted to the cchoes when the youthful hero spoke at Juneau Park. | Milwaukee's welcome to the fiyer | did not abate until Lindbergh was | finally taken to the seclusion of a Ihotel. There a hanquet, attended | city officials nd prominent eiti zens, was ven in his honor. It was the first time Lindbergh had been in Wisconsin since his epochal flight from ew York to Paris. 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