Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1927, Page 21

STAR, WASHINGTON, TRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1927.° ENDURANCE FLYER PROFIT BY TEST Limits of Plane Show Up as Brock and Schlee Fail in Second Attempt. BY WILLIAM BROCK, Who with E. F. Schlee, is socking the world's endurance record. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star and the New York Times. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., December 30.—We made our first fying attempt yesterday and had to dump our 190- gallon tank after barely getting off the ground. That was the end of our first try for a take-off on our duration flight, Of course we don't feel so sood about it. But we learned something about this kind of fiying. In fact, we learned several things, and all of them are mighty important. Conditions and everything else look- ®d as nearly right for the start as we thought we had a right to expect. The wind was almost directly from the South, only a few points to the west and not more than 10 miles per hour, and the beach was wide and smooth, as_the tide was fully out. We had prepared this moment. The flood turning the last bit of light to a hazy blue acr and the sun began to filter the clouds. The cars had been held hack the beach, and an control car stood by the Companion Plane Waits. Our companion plane of the Wayco Air Service, flown by Ted Mostley and carrving Richard Blythe a “Doc” Kinkaid, the Wright motor en- gineer, waited beside us after making a preliminary flight. A group of newspaper men com- pleted the last inte the moving picture phot were waiting a mile up the 1 < to pass. With a jerk Kink prop; with a bark the motor c and we began to warm up the W whirlwind for the supreme effort of lifting the load of 5.935 pounds. I am now more than ever convinced th this is the heaviest load ever 1 this type of plane, and, too, I feel that without material engineering changes this monoplane will _probably never lift a larger weight. We can and will get away with it, but it is going to be a tough fight. Gather Speed on Beach. There is a saying that it is “the last straw that breaks the camel's back,” and thiy saying is literally true with aircraft; it is the last few pounds that held a plane on the ground when it is Joaded to the maximum. Even 50 pounds will be the deciding factor at ted in | such a time, and the point is you can load the last few pounds over the limit without knowirg it if the ship | bas never before bemn tested for its great carrying load. Our motor was turning up 1,600 R. P. M. on the full power test on | the ground The crowd waved bon | voyage, Ed Schlee nodded that all| was clear, and I pushed the throttle | all the way in. Slowly we began to roll. Now we were gathering speed. | The air speed indicator needle showed | 40, then 50 miles an hour. All was | s ahead. The controls began to| take hoid of the air, the tail of the | Pride of Detroit rose from the sand | and T could see that we were moving at 65 miles an hour. We should be | ready to leave the ground at any | moment. { Schiee glanced at the tachometer. | It still showed 1,600 R. P. M. of the | and I could feel & were not biting | And then came a puff of the | west wind, just a slight movement, but we were quivering like a racing | car, and vet loaded like a fiveton| trick. The whirlwind roared, but | the propelier refused to pick up any more revolutions. Wheel Dips Into Sea. The puff of wind was heading out | to sea. Hungrily the waves seemed o Jeap out at us and our near wheel in the water, the wing dipped danger- | ously and the seconds of recovery | seemed an eternity of time. Schlee| held the gasoline pump valve. It was | now or mnever; one lurch and before ‘we could recover our balance all the Joad would be thrown on one wheel. The broad blade of the wooden pro- peller was sglicing the air so deeply that it held the motor down until it was not developing more than 175 horsepower. Our task was hopeless Bchlee opened the valve and poured 190 gallons of gasoline on the mand. | As the Joad lightened I slowed down our air sped until we had stopped rol ing. In another moment the fire emergency car was at our and :’): biplane had landed just ahead of | ‘Tide Halts New Test. Dick Blythe was standing on the | wing, and came running toward us| even before the plane had stopped rolling. In a moment we decided 1o | taxi back to the mtarting po change the wooden propeller for narrower steel plade lost gasoline and tempt, but in the m 8 had risen and before our complete we were 1 our “efloris for anot doubtful that we ca The weather forecast ate to fresh mouthwest after our expericnce ihix I8 not likely that we w beach runs spproximately north ang south. We must have the wind up or down the beach 1o ger up mafely with our load, Moral—Time, tide for no man. (Copyright, 1927. by the New York Times ) the 4 women wait Child Suffocated Sy S;noke, Virginia Mills, colored, 1% monthe ©l4, was taken from & smokefilled 51 tie room &t her home, 2112 Thirty Afth street, Iast right #nd removed 1, Georgetown University Mospatal, where she was pronounced desd An over heated ofl stove had caumed fire in the house, snd smoke in the child's room suffocated her. No. § truck com y prevented the destruction of the o T— .50 '3 DEW YEAR'S DAY PARADE PHILADELPHIA MONDAY, JANUARY 2 SPECIAL TRAIN % 645 wu .‘M.u i Pennsylv‘ania kailroad Forced Dancing Lessons Increase Convicts’ Terms By tha Associated Press. 0A, Italy, December 30.— Objections to compulsory dancing lessons while in Marassi jail here were voiced in no uncertain terms by Viovanni Tortarolo. He con- demned in emphatic language mod- ern dance steps and the four fellow prisoners who were acting as his instructors in them. 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