BEATING THE FOG

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 15, 8 October 1929, Page 6

BEATING THE FOG

AMERICAN AIRMAN’S FEAT

Test in covered com

NEW 'YORK, Sept. 23

Lieutenant Doolittle, the American winner of the. Schneider trophy, race .a 1995 flying blind in a covered cockpit .took Off at.mcben.FicW, and and eel a training aeroplane The airman was aiming to duphea flying through fog. The flight was made possible fcy.the u S c of four ne.v .instruments— a visual .radio beacon, an artificial horizon, a directlonal gyroscope, and a sensitive barometric alti1U Lieutenant Doolittle pulled a canvas tight over Instead. The, iiew, »ltin>etoi, is so sensitive that it registered the distance to'the ground in feet ... .. , A small beacon on the field sent out a radio beam;. Controlled by Hus beam, two reeds on the •aeroplane s msti«■ meat bpijird .vibrated in unispn tor the machine to keep on, its course ; The artificial horizon indicated when ■.the aeroplane was flying right side, up and level, while the - gyroscope gaxo .'warning of. spiu.and “ground ic.op.in o' ’ > whielr is the swerving ot a maV.hinc froin a straight course when it is about to land.