Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1931, Page 20

B—4 sua PILOT 1S INJURED ALOFT DURING GALE Lieufi. C. F. Harper Is Cut on Hands When “Stick” Jumps Amidst Storm. Blown like a leaf m the thunderstorm which struck the National Capital late yestarday afternoon, Lieut. C. F. Har- per of the Anacostia Naval Alr Station, had the controls of his plane torn out of his hands three times. receiving cuts 2nd brujses from the flalling control | stick and heing thrown around in the cockpit, and then was forced to run be- fore the storm to Quantico, Va., before he was able to land and escape the fury of the wind. Licut. Harper, with W. B. Cullins, first-class photographer at the local station, in th rear cockpit, took off from Dahlgren Proving Gound. Va.. for Washington in a Navy observation plane at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. “I could see the storm brewing, but hoped to be able to outrun it and land at Anacostia before it broke,” Licut. Harper said. “As the sky grew more threatening I climbed to 3,000 feet and was within gliding distance of Anacostia when the storm broke. 1 was struck by the gale while flving over the west bank of the Potomac River between Alexandria and Washington-Hoover Airport. Flies On to Quantico. “I have heard of people who had the controls torn from their hands by gtorm bursts, but I never have experi- enced anything like vesterday's storm in all my Navy flying career. The stick was whipped out of my hands three times and I could do nothing but hang | on to the ship with both hands. My knee was cut. and I was bruised and badly beaten about.” Realizing that it was out of the ques- tion even to attempt a landing at Ana- costia, Lieut. Harper finally worked his tossing plane out ahead of the storm center and raced the storm to Quantico. where he landed on the Marine Corps aviation field and got his plane into a hangar just before the storm struck there, He was forced to wait two hours before the storm subsided enough for him to come back to Washington. Capt. Eaker Blown by Storm. Though he missed the worst of the gtorm center, Capt. Ira C. Eaker, Army Air Corps, also had a brush with ths gale and as a result lacked only three minutes of the time required to estab- lish a new speed record between New York and Washington. Flying a low- wing Army pursuit transport plane, Capt. Eaker left Mitchel Field, N. Y., late yesterday afternoon and flew to ‘Washington through stormy skies which covered most of his route. He landed at Bolling Field 75 minutes after leav- ing New York. just after the worst of the storm had passed. ‘The regular airmail shuttle plane got away from Bolling Field on schedule at 6:50 o'clock yesterday evening just as the storm was clearing and was flown without incidenc to New York. C. C. ‘Taliaferro was at the controls. Passenger Planes Safe. Passenger planes on all of the trans- port lines operating out of Washing- ton were reported safe. Weather warn- ings were given the pilots in time for them to get down at regular flelds be- fore the gale struck, it was stated at Washington-Hoover Alrport. Lieut. Harper, who was the only pilot to experience the full force of the storm, was leader of the Navy relief expedition to Santo Domingo last year. He is photographic officer at Anacostia, and has just completed a motion pic- ture review of naval aViation activities which has entailed several thousand miles of flying. ME’TAL MARKET. 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