BEATING THE FOG
AMERICON AIRMAN’S FEAT. TEST IN COVERED COCKPIT. New York, Sept. 23. Lieutenant Doolittle, the American winner of the Schneider trophy race jn 1925, flyino- blind in a covered cockpit, took off at Mitchell Field, flew and landed a training aeroplane safely. The airman was aiming to duplicate flying through fog. The flight was made possible by the use. of four new instruments —a visual radio beacon, an artificial horizon, a directional gyroscope and sensitive barometric altimeter. Lieutenant Doolittle pulled a canvas tight over his head. The new altimeter 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 this beam, two reeds on the aeroplane’s instrument board vibrated in unison for the machine to keep on its course. The artificial horizon indicated when the aeroplane was flying right side up and level, while the gyroscope gave warning Of spin and “ground looping, which is the swerving of a machine from a straight' course when it is about 'a land.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 October 1929, Page 6
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