The evening world. Newspaper, July 8, 1918, Page 12

yan q WY “ . yt) b \ be a Tricks of the War ‘Flyer That Often Foil His Foes HERE IS THE WAY GIDDY LOOPS AND SUDDEN CURVES ARE CARRIED OUT IN ACTUAL COMBAT WITH ENEMY oe MONDAY, JULY 8, 1918 Why Aviators Risk Death — In Air Stunts Like Nose-Dive, Which Cost Mitchel’s Life Weird Evolutions Necessary for Battle Pilots, Says: Henry Woodhouse, Authority on Military Tactics in the Clouds—Bvery Wild Drop or Turn Has Its Special Purpose—How They Are Done .Now First Told in Detail. By Willis Brooks fF “what eacential purpose do fighting aviators perform the various MONDAY, JULY 8, Little Stories F From { the Movies | The House ‘Next Door | geatartng Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew and Produced Under the Title “The Professor’s Romance” 1918 _ “RENVERSEMENT” + @ SEEN FROM THE SIDE sO) CHANGE OF DI SEEN FROM ABOVE < “stints” known as “tall spins,” “nose dives,” “wing slips,” “barrel rolls,” &c, and how do they accomplish them? ‘We haive just seen the grievous effects of one of these evolutions In the | death of Major Joba Purroy Mitchel, former Mayor of New York, killed at Gerstner Field, Louisiane, last Saturday, while attempting a “nose-dive.” | ws 4 ‘What ane the elements of special danger in performing these feats?) pe ‘ . bel} + r Is there ne“way this danger can be avoided and still achteve the desired eyih ‘ results? | bea P ‘That was the eubstance of a sertes of question I put to Henry Wood-| (f . 4 house, author of the “Textbook of Military Acronantics,” the “Dextbook ot} ee “a rh Naval Aeronautics” and other works relating to air fighting. | iN THIS MANEUVER Before answering, Mr. Woodhouse Peg mone | THE PLANE MOUNTS sald he had put much the same tp-/ as far as ft will go and tmmediately | ON THE TURN attries to Lieut. Granville A. Pollock} pulls it hard back, at the same time! of the Lafayette Escadrille, who had | giving the rudder a very slight pres- | i jong been in the British and French|sure with the opposite foot—just ; alr services and was exceptionally | enough to hold the tail tewel, or the; well qualified to define the severa!| machine will be inclined to fly up- tricks @ fighting aviator must employ | ward. to save his own life. “The result,” says Mr. Woodhouse, “THE CHILDREN NEEDED THE FIRM HAND OF A FATHER” By William Addison Lathrop. (A motion picture synopsis in exactly the form in which it was aud mitted to the studio, and one of a series by this author being published in Kae was The Evening World.) PLANE INVERTED CONTROL CENTER RIGHT FOOT STILE FORWARD “fHORIZONTAL VRILLE” SEEN FROM THE SIDE (AY Permintion of Britton Publishing Co.) “First,” said Mr. Woodhouse, “Tet me say there are somo tricks that save a pilot and some that kill him. ‘The saving tricks are usually those that can de done easily without over- straining any part of the machine ‘The others, such, for instance, as the ‘tail stide,’ in which the machine ts nothing else will eave the pilot. Many of the fatal accidents to our student “is very startling to a beginner, for| he will feel as if he were being forced through the seat, eo stroug is centrif- ugal force acting, yet he, m reality, makes a comparatively wide bend, not onlike a hairpin,” ‘Then follows a “wing slide.” which is done by throwing the contro! all the way to one side and pushing the opposite foot sharply ahead, sufficient to hold the nose of the machine up, | and at the same time pushing the ten years the housekeeper had opened the library door thirty minutes past 6 and announced that euppes was the Professor would close the volume—“Humboldt's or “Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason”—put the book carefully back in its place, pocket his glaswes and follow her into the little dining room for his toast and tea and canned peaches. The eerenity of his bachelor house hold and {ts clocklike regularity had been undisturbed for years. About his | only callers were the male members of the Society for Ethical Research, who came to sit at the feet of this Gamalie] and drink in the words that fell from his lips. ready And Cosmos” The professor was “gun-shy” when oe ae ow s ¥, f DN ~~ MOUNTING STEEPLY, BUT WiTH ALL THE RUDDER TO RIGHT, CAUSING PLANE TO. WHIRL - aviators are due to their efforts to/ control stick slightly forward, which | t came to ladies. No romance] Moon was beautiful. He had always perform these dangerous tricks. gives the effect of travelling on the! j | had ever rippled the calm of his me- thought of It before as a cold satel- “In the smal, swift airplane of to-| “outside” of a eircie, the machine di ¥ es NO AILERON | thodical Life; there was nothing about |lite of the earth, without atmosphere day, in which the pilot files atone, | scending sidewise at a terrific «peed, 7 f h, CONTROL IN CENTER Ne limples or star-eyes or ringlets in]and the radius of whose orbit was his machine gun is rigidly fixed to the| much faster than it goes ahead. Vee Fi Moehl bla Sua9e on ef , é RIGHT FOOT WELL rh { | any of the text-books he had either | 240.000 mites ‘ front af the machine, To aim $t| Reversing, or “renversement.” asthe! |. LEFT Wine eos Seal Ht / FORWARD || written or read, and a picture of a| He sat in the library and tbe therefore, he must atm the entire ma- | French call it, is a change of direc- SLIGHTLY FORWARD Wrrh wv eons MOUNTING ‘I eart looked to him like a conic}™usic from the piano came tinkling chine Accordingly be must #0/ tion without loss of beight or reduc- aon? RIGHT AILERON % = / ‘ _ lang attenuated at the apex, and| ‘through the window; old Mary, the manoeuvre as to point the nose of hia} tion of speed. The pilot, fying at 4 4 aa m me with a curvilinear indented base. |OUSekeeper, brought the ear-mufts machine dead at the enemy withoat | level, points his machine very sticht- af gor" J t | | His interest in Venus was confined to|4%d Shut the windows. But he dis- permitting his adversary to do the|ly down, to bring his speed up to| | PLANE RECOVERS- MOUNTING STEEPLY, reer Stengur = \ js é {| the theories in regard to the missing | Carded the ear-muffs as soon as abe same to him, It i for this purpose’ maximum, then pulls the control stick | || srine SLIPPING SIDR? CONTROL WELL BACK, CONTROL CENTER= RMAL PLIGHT: irms of the Milo variety, and the way | 24 gone, and softly opened all the that most of these tricks are per-| back—not too far, or he will go into _ WAYS, CONTROL WELL 7 _SLIGuTty Feawaro 3 {]to different the Fourth Avenue | ¥!2d0ws and sat with clasped bands, Sicmet” & “loop"—at the same time reducing FORWARD “, RECOVER 4 =~ | lantiques from the ones Schliemann | eating time with his foot, For the enlightenment of laymen] motor speed, in order not to perform| |... S°F@® ANY } , j|aug up at the Campanile ¢ the| 8 he glanced through the window who do not know how these airplanes | the evolution too quickly, When the| } 9 ~~ i Acropolis—or somewhere, He could| the next day he saw @ man dressed ave managed tt may be well to ex-| machine has seemed to lose some of FORMAL, POONT ranslate the hieroglyphs on the sar-|'" the height of fashion enter Louise's plain that the control stick, com-| tts speed, which follows almost at the Wad FEET STRAIGHT~ © »phagus of Cleop: and tell you | Ste and ring her bell. For the first moaly called the “joy stick,” controls | moment, the rudder is sharply pushed ad CONTROL BACK TO { SUiGHTLY ForRWwanp- j now she was mummified differently |time in many years he realized that both the elevating planes, at the tail} to one side and the machine falls to CENTER, STILL SLIGHTLY SHARPLY TO RIGHT a) rom Ptolemy I, and that let him] !8 clothes were not exactly in style. of the machine, and the ailerons, or| that side. When vertical the pilot, FORWARD- FEET se © ee As vut about the lady, All of which is|A Visit to the tallor and the hatter Dalancing planes, attached to the/ returning his feet to the centre, open- Orns One abn to: thie atory and the haberdasher and the doot- ‘wings, and ts operated by the hand, | ing the motor, resumes noimat fight. nF ‘The house next door had a new ten-|™*ker soon fixed that, and arrayed while the rudder, which operates like} This also is performed to either m Louise had taken it for the sum-|!!ke Solomon in all his glory, he tire rudder of a boat, is controlicd| side, Unlike the “vrile,” it does not| | NORMAL FLIGHT MOUNTING or and had arrived with Bill and! @™erged from the chrysalis of his Wr Ge teat of the pilot. make use of the ailerons, i A --4 dz vs NORMAL. FLIGHT: Slizabeth and a dog and a nurse; and *oMbre vesture, and almost scared Guppose the machine to be in nor- Rotournment™ (returning) is stm- | Ne READ age —f--—* SS, srthwith the setenity of the Profes-,°!4 Mary to death when she saw him. mal flight, that ts, Cying horizontally | ilar to “renversement,” but instead | } : p paar § b> TE yA es sor departed, A low fence separated| !!¢ called on Louise, and the kids and right side up, if the control stick |of coming out tn an opposite direc- | } RETOURNMENT eos-- RM the two onttages, but no fence was|"Gicn't do a thing to him” Asé be pulled back it raises the elevat-|tion the movament is continued unti!| } SEEN FROM THE SIDE ver built that would keep out Bin) Use told him that they needed the ing meee cones Sa the SreiSaL ores is resumed. It is and beth when they had once)" hand of a father, He offered to { ward, acoomplishe y raising the ele- made up their minds to get on the) *S8/8t her in any y that he could— lowers them, turning the flight dowa-|vating planes quickly and kicking yther side. They soon bad a picket ve Louise sighed, wistfully. He ward. But if the control stick be|the rudder over sharply. ‘The ma- pried loose and went in and out as| %°Usbt an authority on the bringing pashed to the right or left it raises} chine mounts suddenly, then starts hey listed | Up and control of children, by Miss & the aileron of one wing and de-|to fall to one side, the tail ging up. Any dignified man who wears an|?. Inster; and when “mother's an- presses the opposite one, giving the] Now, as the por::) 1 approaches the vut-of-date siik hat and a very long) **!5” did something particularly out- machine a tilt one way or the other.| vertical the rudder is partly recov- | rageous he consulted the book—and always found that “children should never be spanked,” But after they h ‘The extent of tlis tilt depends upon the distance, right or left, that the control stick is moved. Expert pilots are eble thus safely to turn a ma- chine completely over in what is @ “roll.” Be operating the rudder the pilot frock coat is a natural mark and a! perpetual temptation to children like | that pair, They broke his windows and dispersed the meetings for the furtherance of ethical research. They|fannels and Mary's best dress trom ran the gamut of annoyance tu til hig | the ne for a dress parade, and had deductions became faulty and his con-| Pulled the plug out of the boat in | | ered and the aileron control pulled moderately to the same side, produc- ing & “half spin,” bringing the ma- chine back to its former direction, By the uso of the ailerons with the rudder in this evolution speed is maintained without loss of height, and, since it The Frog Sangerbund When the Klown Prince Gave Credit to the Vocalizing Hoptoads for the d stolen his outing re 2” 5 ° s. = . clusions illogical—it is difficult to reae| Which he took Loulse boating, com- pases his rat Sat Sormase hie turn |i usually advantageous to the air “Victory” on the Ailette River, He Started Something—If the War Is to Be son accurately when in fear of 4 halts | Pelling them to wade ashore, and had ‘his machine to the right, and bis hol DC > y ” : , : y, * rick or the ter from a garden| done other ingeniously de “toot to turn it to the left. liebayacl tae oe above his Run on a ‘Zoo” Basis It’s All Over Right Now—That Frog Sangerfest Is to be LOSER IPAM feaaee ha dole tec eens yn ae c count for . + 7 ts “6 Ose. ad to listen to the pia To gh glerined bate oF} ouch Be Cancelled as Soon as the Wire-Haired, Soprano Harlem Cats Are Sent as played by Louise, and it drove him|t? doubt the accuracy of the dogma . use info! “ ” , ye : : > '’ 0% as laid dow 3. P, , tall spin, ‘odin roms > “ in i 7 hey 8 ‘ 6 and pl * a nin Miss $, P, me the pilot, flying level, switcbes| Te ee ries gr arrel Over to Yodel the Bulltoads Into Silence—A Croaking Frog Never Bites, and ST Mh Lace bsesdl ad eda MVE ep tops Tha roll,” as it t# often called, is ver: 7 ; per) ni ' ; ; 8. se said, r ne of bis motor, at the same instant | spectacular and by far the most end When the War Is Over the Kaiser Will Be Doing the Croaking. ‘And as he walked one day in the|the firm hand of a father.” He pla- pulling the control stick quickly tyres Paci gf dir t , m % 4 cool of the afternoon, beneath his own|¢!dly admitted that that wa foward him and sharply toward one |Sowit evolution to saccute, TL is wu BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. Tae and fg tree, mading something | 6ain Loulse alghed, Y *R¢ side, accompanying this operation |) 01 1 an onpurd of the Austral Copyright, 1918, by The Lress Pubhishing Co. (The New York Wvening World). light in the orlginal Sanskrit, by way| But even the most bashful of men with @ sudden push of the foot, right ying Corps recently told a ee INCE the Frog Sangerbund busted loose on the Ailette River and euser to catch Wan hopirvgs. The trouble with decorating a bulltoad | or recreation, a deluge of water from|Comes to taw at last. He sat with Barat abet a big e ne the tir use of it once ubt ‘y made Caruso look like a finger talker with rheumatic knuckle is that he keeps one froghop ahead of the decoration. the hose overwhelined him, As goon} Loulse on the sofa in her drawing- comtro) wriek lnchine shoot euddenty jsaved his life, when an enemy piiot| iSite ust Was AEs Atari ah pomamtiin lucent Citas cal ine ea! Since the frogtoads have Joined the Junkers, the Allies are drill: | as he could gather his dripping senses | Tom, and had laid his hand on his eo e 00 te ade: dat ig sta " - _ 0 eg me he he r } y » Aaa eas speed, in fact, stalling, | “** ®@ining on him in a tail eh: e | Now that the pop-eyed adult tadpoles have cast aside their thin veneer ing Jersey skeeters and one-eyed armadilloes. An escadrille of double | and ae : ® , bed the pa ; wt and had swallowed hard seve- w % % act, stu ; 5 a 3 ‘ seem . D ee: > e y nd hustled them to their mother; ar al times, when the a 1k eo wer falls sharply over to the side| Jt 1s usually started by slightly re-| of neutrality, all the birds who flatfooted up Mr. Noah's esculator are bronged Jersey skooters will be sent into Berlin with one-way tickets, } und usted them to thule olin: ad ae ene teapot awful knowledge with @ twisting or corkscrew move- ducing the speed of the motor, turning sticking a spoon into the war. A Jersey skitter is an atrocity with wings, feeds himself and never i ‘ Pl ee Unaan't ; pina bas somebocy 2 ele 9 2 . Wha tation te ha : e stop aus le ‘a—and he di ment, which is varied by the sharp- ee eee ee ean nies Ue The ballyhooing started when the Kaiser dragged his surprised sets busted arches, ‘The Kaiser won't be able to decorate a Jersey Now, when Louise laughed, anybody | out Elizabeth and Bill. He e Sraeeye neas with which the rudder pres- | "Oil! & Cee placing all ces] complexion out of the imperial beer can and overheard the Clown skatter, besause the ekeeter will decorate the Kaiser. The onelamped | o14. jaughed too, and that is exactly|consultethe book—but closed it, aed, setts bas ‘been utitined, fea cauica (Whe tamil ie tee: rola in! prince order a dose of frog sized Iron Crosses {mn the usual earload Peruvian armadilloes will be used as shock troops on the Siberian | what the Professor did. Louise took| taking Bill across his k spanked ‘To cease whirling, the pllot replaces | ens ienty to mount, but the ma | lot& Although the Kaiser must realize that the Clown Prince's nat front, Shocks don't annoy 'em because being @ one-eyed armadillo 48 | nim into the drawing room and spread| him with it heartily. Bill finally — the controls in the centre, feet) rect of the rudder swings it ne ural food is cocoanuts, the Kaiser jr. occasionally stakes his old man @ shock in itself, a mackintosh over a chair and wriggled out of his grasp, and he and straight, and slowly pushes the con- |" has tune 16. comauataly es PB! tow flock of shocks. Sven though the Kalser bas sold the ‘peanut An orchestra of wire haired, soprano Harlem cats will be mobil | pim on it, and made him drink soine| Elizabeth were sent to bed, Louise trol stick forward a few inches, thun |e eM ding with a wing allp ona pickpocket and eoda pop concessions on the Marne, he retains the Iron | Sed under the WorkonFight Law. They will be used to combat the | whiskey, after be had tado a forcible | told him that “the children needed the Meer oe aoe ya ne eae maang|® fattening out in # alde dircction Cross privilege exclusively for himself. ‘That is one atrocity which ty frog menace on the Ailette River, When the Frog Sangerbund inhales | but ineffectuab protest, She spoke | firm of a father—~and after ing the ei bse al fe tne | Looping 18 seldom resorted to in an| vested within the ul vest. Knowing the Kaiser jr. is. slightly an carful of poison Harlem cat chatter they will curl up on the edges | sadly of n.olulaeeny Bae arg ove | shin moment he held up his = Rate crusty aslly to ither |@P Haht, because when the mr exempt under the hat, and also being hep that every German soldier In disgust. That old frog Sangerfest will be cancelled right there, | dads at a cP eh Ties Be od vist ht hand and asked her if she jone e@ e i e a u . § = ‘ . erchief, tol im e, je ded 0 ould ¢ e Bs aide, or the controls can be delther- | "verted the p js helpless is thoroughly diluted with Iron Crosses, Billhelm buzzed the Clown By sticking walnut shells on the cats’ hoops a new crop of nolse will 154 aad hand of @ father pene se Te . ie by per ae ately “cronsed"—that is, the rud ie - on saul th mag hine has passed | Prince as to the destination of the pewter medallions. be assured for emergencies, A choir of asthmatic, rusty hinged, saw ‘Phe Professor thought 6o too, but| ‘Together they went Hpi ” in A pet to the side opposite the balancing a bie Pepe Lg . wariae downward, | The Kaiser Jr, explained that the frog sized Iron Crosses were edged parakeets will also be trained for service on the Allette River, said it was a mere nothing and didn't! nursery, ‘There lay Bligabet ; aa controls, though 18 somewhat | tne turn to find h eat Pulnt) gust what they were—Irou Crosses for frogs. In his usual fermented They will aid the cate in yodelling down the Imbeerial Prussian toad: | jatter in the least. And that evening, | Bill, tucked safe in their little bede oa harder on the machine, as a twisting V0 over, i¢ he Is using belt car arget chatter, containing 8 per cent. alcohol, the Clown Prince said that the hoppers. as he sat with his feet in a mustard] their swect, gentle, child- faces dows movement 1s produced in the fuse | si chine gun, the belt Je like se} coking of the Frog Sangerbund on the Allette River was so corru- | A census of the Harlem qnttery shows that there are 14,000,000 | ath, with @ blanket wrapped around! with the beauty sleep. ‘Tenderly Jage (the body of the machine) and | oie geranged and jam the gun. YO) cated that the Imbeerial Hohenzollern troops had brought up ammunt- cats within the oat draft age from 3 to 65 years. And when the cats | the rest of him, the telephone rang-- | Louise kissed them, and the Profes- the spin is not so quick. | lees! bt . tion and batteries under cover of the frogeish gossiping, He also sald | shuffle off to the front the Harlem folks won't hang out any service |it was Louise ioauleng it he had| sor, smiling, followed suit He put _ __ All this sounds simple enough, but! LONE VILLAGE LONESOME, that the French sentinels thought that the racket wag nothing but a | stars for ‘om, taken cold ane ee ee a ern, | his arm around Louise and tt every movement must be made at] AV KIDDAW is the not inappropriate| regiment of hoptoads. The French senti were right excent that The hopfroggers won't have a chance croaking against a double | ally, “Po. at OO dene ifs |went out, Then Bill and 0! | 1, else | ad deo! iedce"—a ont |, eee coe. ries (natant, else any S name of @ village in England| gome of the hoptoads wore iron hats. Fortunately for the Allies, q | barrelled Harlem cat, Because when a Harlem alley rabbit starts in | fered ady Mculwenuci | all Wilt sat up in bed and winked at each eae ot panes wroas any that has only # single inhabitant! frog's croak is worse than his snap, Also, a croaking frog never bites. | to yodel he just unlocka his face and throws the key away. Those bets perl Bee at other es Sas feetion—that 1s, to turn as quickly | re ee ae of RkiGiaw same After explaining, the Clown Prince loadgd his fountain pen with | Harlem fence terriers will Just naturally squawk those toadhoppers eRe ee evaiingA IAVAECALAL DO | NOT A SPECIAL BRU EAY. Tec Eaibie in,Ahe oppoajte direction |beine ne ov sannot vote—there) more schnapps. Then he and the Kaiser goose-stepped out to decorate | under the table, ‘Tho frogs will let but one Just croak and then croak. being no overseer to prepare @ voters’ Mist and no church or public building) on which to “publish” one, as the law requires, had arranged his hair for the eleventh | time, he went out and talked to Louise | city in 1886 for a resident of over the fence for a few moments, North Carolina recently reached When she wens io be qew (that the him in West Virginia. ¢ OME mail matter posted in this without loss of either speed or height wehbe pilot, fiyin; Aével, throws his the frogs with pewter crosses. Looks like the war is all over except the croaking. Which is one place where the Kaiser gets the first shanee to sign on the dotted line. ‘The frogs managed to keep two jumps | in the lead, so the Kaiser bought can of sardines and decoraged them. The sardines never did anything for Germany, but they gre