Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1931, Page 10

PILOT HOLDS FEAR HAS SAVED HIS LIFE Capt. Frank T. Courtney, Vet- eran of 17 Years in Air, Ad- mits Being “Scared Stiff.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 19.—Other pilots call Capt. Frank T. Courtney "the airplane_doctor.” For 17 years, counting out a_period when he was flying over the Western front, he has been testing airplanes— trying them out before they were turned over to armies, navies or the public. He started with “pushers.” The num- | ber of untried individual ships he has flown runs into hundreds—he can't re- THE EVENING STAR. W ASHING'TON, 'Always\ Afraid BIG WELCOME GIVEN CHAPLIN IN ENGLAND Newspaper Bulletins Follow Movie Comedian From Ship to London in Second Homecoming. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 19.—A shy little man with eloquent feet was England's | greatest hero today. It was Charlie Chaplin, of course, coming home for | the second time since he left his London attic to seek his fortune 20 years ago. Ever since it became known that he | was returning. the newspapers have maintained a barrage about him and to- day they followed him with bulletins from his ship to London. A tremendous welcome began the moment he stepped off the boat at Plymouth and it contin- ued as the boat train sped through the countryside on a schedule the movie | fans knew by heart, Chaplin_ was in a holiday mood, pa- rading before the cameras at Plymouth with Capt. Campbell, the automobile racer, and Steve Donoghue, the jockey, the great clown calling off the step like a sergeant major. “I've got four months to spare,” he told the reporters, “and I'll probably visit Paris, Madrid and Berlin.” England had more heroes than she knew what to do with today as Chap- lin and ,Campbell came in together. Capt. Campbell went from Plymouth to Southampton where an official welcome had been arranged He said he.would go after a new speed record if the one he set at Daytona is broken. A0, == C.,.. THURSDAY, Flibit \RY 19.. 1831. . ARCADE MARKET 14th and Park Road N.W. Friday & Saturday Speclals Everything in the Food. Line—125 Stands to Select From Contest Closes Midnight Saturday, February 21st All Slogans Must Be in at That Time FREE AUTO PARKING Rear of “member just how many. He can’'t remember, either, just how many times he has cracked up. Three times he has come down in flames—once in the middle of the At- | $30 CASH PRIZES $15.00 First Prize, $10.00 Second Prize and $5.00 Third Prize Every one is eligible, except Arcade dealers, their ble We want a n of 10 lantic Ocean at midnight. Wings have crumpled.y rudders have | come off, propellers havetbroken, land- ing gear has collapsed. He was shot down six times in one weck on the Western front—his ship out of commis- wion, or his observer wounded or killed. | - He was wounded himself while trying to bring down an enemy kite balloon with hand grenades. Has Always Been Afraid. And all his life Frank T. Courtney has been afraid in nlrplnnfii Just scared stiff,” he said today | “Every time I take up a new ship Il | ¢pend hours figuring out. the terrible | ings that might happen. Sometimes I | break out in cold sweat | “But to the fact that I always have| been afraid I probably owe life. | There isnt & more cautius airplane | pilot in the world than I am. As a re- sult of all that worrying, when the! thing I've been expecting does happen in the air, I automatically carry on. “There was that time, for instance, when a propeller on & two-motor job I was testing broke up. I'd been expect- ing it. Before I knew I'd done it I'd gut the switches and put her into a| ank That time in August, 1928, when he | came down on fire in the Atlantic while sttempting to fly from Asores to New- | foundland and drifted 20 hours before he was picked up does not rank par- ticularly high among his adventures, in Capt. Courtney's estimation. On the whole, that was a source of satisfaction to him because the precautionary meas- ures he had taken in the event of such | a forced descent worked out so well As an adventure, so far as he is con- cerned, it was topped by at least two| others. Once, while he was trying a nP“ barrel roll, the lower wing of his bi- plane broke in two. He couldn't dnl a thing with the ship—just had to !fl.\ it come down its own way. It de- scended in spirals and “hit right hard.” But he was only scratched. Will Carry On. “The first 700 (eet I spent cussing myself,” he said. “The last 300 feet I ‘kept saying to myself, ‘Will I get away with it? or won't I2'" | Tougher than that, was | though. another time when a wing broke up. This time the ship vibrated so that he couldn't see a thing. He was only 120 feet off the ground when it hap- pened \ “It was only & ma‘ier of seconds. ance for Bank of Comm. & . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ° . . - . - . . . . . . - . - . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - . . . . . . . . . - o . . . . . - . . . - . . . ° . . . . . . . . . l 1 mail the coupon for a Hoover on triai. obligation. The New Hoover is ONLY s6fi’. DOWN with dusting tools or Dustette; balance monthly. but it seemed like three yea said. I kept thinking it was a mare and trying to wake up.” He was in a hospital two months after that one. On his very next mgm the rudder came off and he landed | with the motor in his lap. Capt. _Courtney _recently Curtiss-Wright, Corporation. for which | he had been testing airplanes. and is now on his own, as an aviation con- &||1Mnl “That just means.” he “that I'm going on testing airplanes CUSTOMS RECEIPTS DROP Mexico Views Reduction as Good | Trade Balance Sign. 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