Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1927, Page 8

3. 1927-PART PLANE INSPECTION PLANIS SUCESS Scheme Sponsored bv Maj.| " =well Proving Great Fac- | r in Reducing Crashes. | inspeetion. whereby | al parts of an air-| e failure of any one of which would cause loss of equip- raonal injury or at least in- the mission of the pilot—re. ceive close check and inspection daily by a competent mechanic. has just lLeen installed at Wright Field, Day- ton, Ohio, bringing the number of Army Air Corps stations using this accldent-prevention scheme o 1% in this number Bolling kiid, Ana cosida, vas At the fie'd that the perronns! S Rurwell, commanding officer, work inspection system—on a isrge seale. Maj. Burwell is the father of the plan. which ix but 2 small part of a «i Zantic, vet simple, method of running the Afr Corps on the same principles are employed in the leading indus s of the country. This general plan | still {8 in the process of experimant-. | | Member of Court Carries Plebeian tion and has not yet been adopted for the use of the Afr Corps. Great Strength Required. Maj. Burwell conceived the idea embodied in the present svstem, while commanding officer of the 3d tack Group at Kelly Field, Tex tack aviation.” the latest development in uerial fighting. requires that planes, henvily loaded with bombs and ma. chine guns, operate at altitudes of around 100 feet or so, raking the grouvnd with steel bullets from the suns and tossing out demolition Tombs on troop concentrations and cquipment. Flying at thix altitude. | forced landing would mean disasier in most eases to the pilat, gunner and rlane, owing to the high explosives enrried. | It artack aviation were ta succeed Maj. Burwell argued, there must he no forced landings. His safety-inspection | scheme was developed and applied to | the group. Not one plane had a forced | tanding in two vears' operation. | Noting this success, higher officials of the Afr Corps encouraged Maj. Bur- ¢l to apply his plan on a larger scale, and today 18 of the major Air Corps posts are functioning under this system. Neglect Impossible. Tn hrief, the system makes it im- nossible for plane crews 1o neglect in- =pection of the smallest part of the afreraft. A large chart, setting forth the parts of the airplane that must be inspected, hangs on the hangar wall near the berth of the plane, and the wrew chief, after testing out each part, initinls the chart for that particular section of the plane. In that respect e is held responsible for the condition of the plane as it is about to take off. Thus, when a pilot leaves the cround he knows his propeller is in verfect condition, the fuel tanks are dequate for his mission, the ignition funclons properly, the controls are vroperly adjusted, the instruments rve true, the mechanism of the engine h:s been thoroughly tested, the wings 1nd tail surfaces are in proper align- ment—in short, the plans is as perfect human hands can make it. tecords of the Air Corps show that 1y have forced landings or crashes caused by major mechanical fail- it is the seemingly insignificant parts of the plane that fail and necessitate the ilot making for the first available aich of ground. While he may get down mafely many times, there is al- | ‘vavs the possibility of “cracking u. 1 the ground. Often the occupants of | the nlane receive no injuries, but when | such crack-ups occur on the ground, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dol- wrs damage to equipment is sustained. Safety Js Threatened. To continue fAving for long periods | out giving attention to these 60 ry elements in the ssible, but Air Corps offi. c°1a mow argue that if this old-time procedure were resorted 1o in the light f the visual inspection plan, it would constitute waiving all available safety precaution The inspection svstem makes it pos- sible for a pilot about to take off to tell in one glance at the big board in the kangar that the plane is in safe condition. Should his eve catch a red mark in one of the little squares op- te an important part of the plane, 1t constitutes a warning that every- | thing is not as it should be. But if the pilot believes that this seemingly =mall defect is not dangerous or wi'l rot hring undue hazards on his project- ed flight, he can take responsibility N from the mechanic for the »ne’s condition by signing his name epnosite the day’s inspection and come responsible himself for anything that happens subsequently. 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The Robert ¥ Daughters of the Confederacy, met at Confederate Memorial Home last | Monday evening and elected officers. | as follows: | President first vice Lee Chapter, United | | Mary Embrev: | Mrs. Claude N president, Mis Miss president, Bennett; second vice Horace Whittaker tary. Miss Ora Smith: corresponding | U. D. C. CHAPTER ELECTS |[=2 Mande Miss C. B Whitehurst: cu todian, Miss Elsie Weeks. Miss Myrtle Ketcham was retained as custodian of crosses. Tribute to Mis. Walter K. Hutton, the retiring president, was in Mrs. Maude An impromptn reception of the officers going ont | were thanked for their fine work and | those just elected grected Howell was AT RECEPTION TO KING Looking Package at Formal it Affair. | PARIS.—A little package wrapped in gray paper and done up with a | pink string caused an embarrassing | incident at a royal reception at the see Pal 1ad of Egypt was heing President Doumergue in of scores of full-uniform- King greeted by the presence ed officials and diplomats stifly at atte n. standing A member of the | suite with the package hang- ing by & loop from his fingers stepped forward toward the President Consternation nsage does not packages: =Ry nothing about how to hande | them. For a few minutes no one knew | what 1o do and the Egyvptian stond | smiling in embarrassment. Then the | President, realizing the generous if | informal intention, took the package. | Every one breathed more easily. | reigned. Diplomatic provide for rules for plebeian | royal receptions | The package contained an ancient Egyptian manuscript intended as a gift for the French Republic. i with him an | ‘airplane flight report,” on the back | of which is a transcript of the record of tha plane’s condition as embodied on the board in the hangar. This is for the information of the pilot as well as the mechanic at Wright Field, | On the face of the report and u der 1he heading. “Engineering Data several important functions of the plane as it is in flight are listed, and the pilot is required to ohserve these performances while en route to the Ohlo field, It he finds during Might that the oil temperature increased, that the gasoline pressure dropped or that the revolutions of the propellor were not what they should he, there is space provided in the report for | making these notations, On landing at Wright Field he turns the renort over to the mechanic. The latter immediately sets about to rectify | any reported inefficiency of the plane and then makes his inspection of the | other parts, just as the Rolling Field crew chief did. On the back of the report he sets forth his findings. Complete Checks Kept. Returning to Washington the follow- ing dav, the pilot hands the flight r port with the mechanic’s notations of | the inspection as well as any com ments the aviator himself has made, to the Bolling mechanic, who posts the result of the Wright Field ingpec- | tion of his own chart. Thus, a con- no maiter where it is and each flight, | in effect. i% a thorough test flight. | In addition to inspecting, the me- | chanic must make any repairs he | finds necessary. up to and including | the removal of the engine. Any wor that he or his assistants cannot per- form in the hangar, owing to its mag- | nitude, is sent to the engineering | hangar of the field, where a corps of | expert civilian mechanics gives the | thip & major overhaul. 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