Show Pilot Thrown Half Out of Plane as asHe asHe asHe He Dives Craft Into Thunderhead n Dy Pr Pre O I I CLEVELAND Auff Aug 3 lIot Ralph C. C er er recounted today one of the most nen e freakish airplane flights ever experienced and andl survived He lie made the flight above c the Ute Cleveland airport yesterday while making his daily ascension to feet to make weather tests for the United States Slates weather bureau I said he drove his plane purposely into a cloud formation known as a D. thunderhead Once Inside in inside inside in- in side it it he said mid tremendous air forces gripped his plane took it out of his control shot it upward at 1400 feet a minute pushed it sideways nearly 70 rio miles mUes an hour and then finally released the grasp to let the plane U I and occupant escape undamaged A thunderhead said isa is isa isa a towering mass of clouds which rise sometimes to a height of several miles mUes The pilot said he had no sooner entered the cloud formation than my plane was thrown around as I had never known a plane to be be be- be fore I was blind bUnd of course in the cloud and didn't have the least Idea what position I was in My Instruments were useless due to the rapid gyro gyrations of the ship except for the rate of climb indicator Indicator indicator indica indica- tor which showed that I was as being lifted 1400 feet n a minute Pushing the stick forward to the Continued on Tare Fare Two Tiro Pilot Thrown Half Out of Plane PIan as asHe asHe He Dives Craft Into Thunderhead S Continued from Pate Pare One instrument board I dived until the theair theair air speed Indicator showed miles mUes an hour and still my downward 5 speed ed was less than the rate of ot the upward draft dratt It seemed years but It was only afew n a few tew minutes later Inter that I broke out of the cloud still diving at 45 5 de de- de grees Not satisfied with this raising hair experience picked a much smaller thunderhead and tried it again If It anything the second had worse winds than the first he said This time the updraft carried me to the mushroom top of or the cloud There the updraft and the plane ceased rising at the same time like a n. fast elevator hitting the ceiling I kept on going however my safety belt having become unfastened In Inthe Inthe Inthe the jolting of a few seconds before The only things s that kept me from I being thrown out were my parachute which caught against the cowling I and my heels which hooked booked under the scat seat I was away from the controls entirely en en- and the plane was blown side sideways ways by the strong air current which spread horizontally lly over the top p of the cloud A moment later however ger got the plane under control again and and swore off thunderclouds forever for- for ever everl |