Show Fast Fliers Go Weightless And Food Floats in Air By Howard W Blakeslee Associated Press Scienco Editor SAN ANTONIO Tex Dec 11— Let's have breakfast where nothing has any weight including ourselves where you can pick up the menu let go of it and there it stands alone In the air The place is an aircraft traveling at a speed and on a course which nullifies gravitation This time is not as far ahead as you may think Without knowing it you often are momentarily weightless A diver arrninc otr a springboard has an instant of no weium t ou mane me same weiehtless curve often in antn bumps — and frequently in a plane All this was not important until planes started exceeding the speed of sound Now some of our military flyers go weightless for half a minute New speeds are coming up A report mentions nearly 1500 miles an hour for an American - manned rocket plane dive It has become vital to study weightlessness here at the U S air force school of aviation medicine This is to learn the effects of no weight both on flyers and on planes The military problems both those already reached and others still in the future are secret But the situation is told in six words by Maj Gen Harry G Armstrong surgeon general of the air force who says: "We have reached a new fronsemi-offici- al tier" Finds Zero Gravitation Somewhere not so far out beyond this frontier before interplanetary travel comes the weightless — the zero gravitation — phase of flight The experts here are allowed to tell us about the weightless breakfast because it has no military implications The experts are four German scientists Their job is to try to foresee frontier troubles before they cause accidents They are Dr Heinz Haber physicist! astronomer and German airman his brother Fritz Haber wartime German airplane designer Dr Korad J K Buettner physicist and meteorologist Dr Hubertus Strughold physician former German army colonel and now head of a new science the department of space medicine here We Just Float In Now we enter the dining room We don't walk for just one step would bounce us into the air and leave us there We float in drawing gently along a line There is a table fastened down Also chairs fastened We don't need chairs but this is our first weightless breakfast and the chairs are there for reassurance We hook ourselves to the chairs Otherwise we would float ever so slowly across the cabin drawn by suction of the ventilator We can drink water from but probably won't because glasses of the risk of social errors Water in a glass is just a weightless round ball floating like a little balloon It is rounded by the water's own surface tension Movement would break the water ball against sides or nouom 0i tne glass The break w ould fill the water with air bubbles like the- foam of surf But these bubbles would not rise They would make a most inconvenient THE OODEN (UTAH) -- Appointed— -- - up off the pan and they have to he pushed down aeain That sinus frying time to many minutes But you can have them in a few sece onds boiled by radio Or you can have truly sunny eggs These are baked in the hot sunlight streaming through the cook's window Be careful while aiming your salt and pepper shakers Aim straight down The shaker direc usc l "one miB "w" snoot the salt and Denner across the table on your mess mate's eggs Mashed potatoes spinach and other soft foods are problems They probably will be taken out of tubes which you squeeze Your sense of taste is unaltered Touch is the same for although nothing has weight everything has the mass you are used to You can feel and squeeze Swallow Carefully Swallowing must be done carefully Particles of food can rise up through your nostrils like the aroma of strong drink as you swallow Whisky (not permitted on space ships) is easier to swallow than water because the strong taste stimulates the swallowing muscles quickly Crumbs fly from unexpected places up as well as down That is a problem because your nose was built for gravitation with the openings pointed down to shield them from descending particles Most of them are falling upward at this breakfast Now a surprise Digestion might be better because the inevitable air bubbles are likely to disperse the food more advantageously in the digestive processes You can have your choice as to what it right side up for v'ou Your eyes will not be fooled But fancy meeting your friend who has chosen the opposite Since there is no gravitation and nothing to fall it is all in perfect decorum — — 3A STANDARD-EXAMINE- S TUESDAY EVENING DECEMBER 1951 11 4 —w SAIGON Indochina Dec 11 (AP) — police today reported uncovering a plot by the communist-le- d Viethminh to kill U S Minsiter Donald G Heath j Viet-Name- short-wav- si p A A 1 A w gar m w m— — m— PORTLAND $1771 2191 1875 EUGENE Plui for "hen Depot (mi ATERFILh'f HAZIER 68 J f4 j Contains m m ad- - official 'skiir 32-pa- Sturdy regulation size Jr aOBk DRILL KIT 1995 599 a95 Made for extra long rough wear Specially priced to clear for Christmas savings Ladies' figure skates at same Complete with portable electric drill and steel carrying case plus 28 necessary pieces for working 'TBfl If Hockev Skates Reg price SERVICEABLE FOLD-AWA- Y Kentucky Blended Whiskey 86 Proof 30 Straight Whiskey 70 Grain Neutral Spirits Watarfffl K Frtiiier Distillery Company ordstown Kentucky Screwdriver Kit Boxing Gloves 100 895 9BSSSBs2SBP2 Fun Se includes 6 screwdrivers in the mct wanted and useful sizes U lit into a handy plastic case for Dad and Son! 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