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Totally blind flying, solely by the aid of navigating instruments, became an accomplished fact for the first time last week. Lieutenant James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle, 33, "best Army Flyer," did it, at Mitchel Field, L. I. Thereby he completed eleven months' experiments for which the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics borrowed him from the Army Air Corps, and which presaged the highest safety in flying through no matter what weather...
Three new instruments developed† during the eleven months' work made Lieutenant Doolittle's work possible. Those instruments: 1) Visual radio direction finder consisted of two reeds vibrating in consonance with a new short range radio beacon at Mitchel Field. When the plane is directly in the path of the beacon, the reeds vibrate uniformly. When the plane is off course, one reed fibrillates faster than the other. The closer the plane is to the beacon, the more intense the vibration. 2) Artificial horizon showed instantly at what angle the plane was flying in relation to the ground...
Colonel Arthur Woods, member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard, was Police Commissioner of New York City during the administration of Mayor Mitchel. He has manifested great interest in Harvard as Chairman of the Overseers Committee to visit Harvard College. During the World War he was overseas in the Flying Corps. After the War he was Assistant to the Secretary of War in charge of returning men to civil life...
Trials to win $100,000 for the safest plane extant began at Mitchel Field, L. I., last week. The Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics provided the prize money, and an additional $10,000 for each of the first five planes to qualify in the contest. Entries must register before Oct. 3. Until last week only a dozen were listed as competitors. Six were U. S. makes...
Last week at Mitchel Field a new Brunner-Winkle biplane was the only contestant present. Its pilots took her up. Then appeared the Guggenheim Fund's pilot, the man whom Fund President Harry F. Guggenheim has fostered for two years in order to focus U. S. attention on aviation?Charles Augustus Lindbergh. With Mrs. Lindbergh he had returned in his motor cruiser Mouette from honeymooning off the New England coast to the estate of Daniel Guggenheim, Fund creator, and was ready for work. He first flew Harry F. Guggenheim for 15 minutes in the Brunner-Winkle craft. Then he took...