Show Board Safer Than Instinct to Flyer E Extensive t tests e here proven n that iii flying blind instinct is the aviators tors because nature worst w or t enemy This is has yet to be reconciled to the th straight line On the ground or In th tho a l r man when hen deprived of hIS hissen seno sen- of dire tion mo mows mos os s in m circles Thus when hen the airman m with w th hiS bear bear- bearings bearings ings robbed by fog sleet or storm relies on his instinct rather than his instrument board he invariably spins to his death hen Tien en blind instinct is left to ta guide events e there is as b bound und to be trouble for we ue we were ere born to go round ground in rings writes Richard Car Car- Carron Carroll roll Car ron roll in an the Liberty Magazine Ma In 1917 1017 Professor A A A of the University of Kan Kansas as zoological laboratory conducted some epen experiments e experiments pen ments on students on a race track trach at Kno Tennes Tennessee At the time it was as covered WIth snow and the tracks tracks- of the students were plain to see SEC They v were ere shown an object at a distance then blind blind- blindfolded blindfolded folded and told to walk alk straight to It To the ors or's amazement each subject including himself walked In spirals and in m all directions Continuing his experiments Pro Pro- Professor Professor Professor fessor Schaeffer came to the canto canto- concluSIon conclusion sion soon that no forward far moving organ organ- organIsm organism organism ism has yet been found that does not mole mo in m some kind of o spiral path path when there are no orienting sen- sen senses senses sen senses ses such as sight touch or smell to ta guide it Many l aviators reporting on this tendency to spiral admit that if strict attentIon i is 11 paid pud to the artificial hori hori- horizon hori horI- horIzon horizon zon in their ship that ships ships that is to the Instrument board with Ith its turn and bank indicator tor its compass its al- al altimeter al altimeter and other devices to take the place of mans man's eyes eves ees his touch hIS sense or sense of lance b the pilot will not COOTIe come to grief The Th difficulty here is to make pa pay attention Veterans are often the worst offenders When a ship goes into a spin in m fog and ind the does not now know ho how much alti- alti tude he has it takes tales a of train tram training training ing mg and nerve nen e for him to go against his highly senses and place blind faith in instruments which tell him to do what that he InstInctIvely believes will kill 1111 him In Ill that fight between bet a few gadgets gadgets gadgets ets on the instrument board and an pilot pilots pilot's common cammon sense the latter is often the winner and the pilot crashes The instruments are ays 1 right If element In aviation the pilot will only onI realize that this is a 3 circular world and that nuns mans fight mst against nature is for straight lines and that his instruments ments aro his IllS weapons for far that fight he will fly safely enough in fog al- al always al always ways ways was provided he will believe his Ius In- In Instruments instruments in instruments |