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...about four years blind flying, now called instrument flying, has been a commonplace of U. S. air transport. Day after day planes ride the waves of radio beacons, staying unerringly on course when the pilot can see nothing beyond the cockpit window. But the radio beacon can guide a plane only to a point above its destination. If the airport is hidden by fog or sleet, the plane may crash. Hence the Government still forbids a passenger plane to fly into an airport where the ceiling is under...
Driving an automobile at 253 m.p.h. you hear, not the roar of the motor, but a loud whistling made by the wind rushing into the cockpit where a vacuum might develop if there were not a small hole in the windshield. You see, through a pocket of glass, your car's long bonnet with a motor-revolution gauge a little to the right of where other cars have a radiator cap, outlined sharply against yellow sand. At one edge of your line of vision is a dark line made by a crowd of spectators and, on the other side...
While Chicagoans droned in bed before dawn one morning last week, it was morning 18,000 ft. up in the cold, paling sky where Pilot Roy Colton, 27, circled in an open cockpit biplane. In line of duty he was taking notes on the height and thickness of cloud layers, ice forming conditions, the direction and violence of the wind (80 m.p.h. that morning). His chief work was being done inside a little streamlined box strung on rubber cords between the outer struts of his right wing. In it, human hairs squeezed of oil and moisture were taking...
According to Mrs. Cockburn-Lange the pictures were taken by her late husband with a camera mounted in the cockpit of his plane and operated by a shutter attached to the machine-gun trigger. She has refused to tell her husband's name because, she says, his superior officer is still in the R. F. C. and might be punished for permitting the pictures to be taken "against army regulations...
...Sill. Tall, thin, startled-looking, with thick black eyebrows and black hair. Author Cozzens could pass as much younger than his 29 years. No novice at his trade, he has free lanced since his undergraduate days at Kent. The Last Adam is his sixth book. Others: Confusion, Michael Scarlett, Cockpit, Son of Perdition...