Show 5 A epa 1 PLANE 60 VI when a man takes to flying 4 I 1 it 4 vl mir I 1 I 1 tl 1 I 1 niu I IM I 1 viiu I 1 tin denb wl UK RE I 1 ABOUT eaith copyright 1311 1511 by henry BI neeli copyright in great britain an I 1 canada ml all rights reserved I 1 0 thi the lunn man on oil the ground flying T la in tiu an aeroplane boks like th SWOOt smoothest heSt bullitis bulli tig ta in t the tie world under ordinarily fao favorable rable weather condId conditions oits the air craft stems to P alm alone along on n perfectly even keel mill without the deviation from a straight 1111 hilt lint aw and that Is bly ono one rea aon why the man thinks that the life of the aviator mist be one constant succession of pleasant and exhilarating experiences air conditions 4 KM fact from the earth are rati ditre different reut from thov tho v COCO feet up the lowar layers of u the nn tire t smooth and eava can to sail upon and offer couo of tho the unpleasant surprises Ls which m aich t c bet ns as we go higbie and higher thero there la Is nothing in lit tho the flost 1 boo UM or 1 1000 feet to look out for excels the vagaries garic ot of the wind and these an usually be pretty welt mell forecast from the andla a eions on tho the ground before starting and from tho the conditions mot met in the first few minutes of flight kut but up abelio that in the realm ot of the scudding mists and ac the drifting l f lnita of cloud clouds where one dashe out of n warm air current into the choln n of suspended mol moisture sture one meeta meets after surprise and I 1 Is 3 torata to lo 10 stays on the alert with brain calm and bandi handi and body ready for instant action at the first blen sign of nn an aeriel billock hll bill toc ocl nr ravine 1 pumping the bumps in the air alave you ever on a waria warm summer a evening rone gone to n resort paid your nickel or 10 cent through a lettu box office w indoor cot got into a little car with pix 1 or kertu other persona persons and for sei erril therea thereafter fUr coisted up and down it merl scrim or of artificial hills and nud alleys at it thrilling spot in other hive aou ou eer tasted of the excitements of bumping the bumps well weil bumping thy batups Is just whit fr do when we climb for height wo we engage in aerial rough riding Soul etim we do it volun tarlia but fost rost of the sirop file I 1 comes with the complete and surprise that abtin pil dla ater for u 4 unless wo we are on the alert to n rope with its dlin rull es I 1 think 1 I arta mi claim without boast ins ing that I 1 have hare done more altitude work than any man now thing twice I 1 bavo bare set the world a height mark but la in tny my practice work I 1 have made matte per eral climbs which to me were oven even more notable than hose those which were officially recorded and on ou at leant least two of these my barograph registered high er than the then thero world a record I 1 was wai preparing myself for work that bolij be officially recorded la in open competition and in this preparation I 1 aaro bad experiences with the budts of t the air which I 1 hall not eon noun for get and which hare have taught me always to expect the unexpected in the upper strata of the atmosphere As I 1 write I 1 hare before mu several baro barograph aph record records of my various flight and the thin tracing of the pen points on on one e or two of them recalls to my mind the experiences through which I 1 passed while making them and ono one in particular I 1 pick out ns as being a souvenir avenir Bo of as strenuous a days work as I 1 hare have berer done it wie was a little jaunt into the heart of the heavens made because of my long cherished desire to go up to the foot toot nitra mit and it gave me tue my hard sr aitu rae me durupt in too air bo be was ideal for cimring bing it wan cold but tut the air n aa as fairly still ond the first te fe thousand feet ot of my vure tro made smoothly und and with out dAH culty in lit a steady rise that was almot almo t mechanical la in its ex I 1 ho lie baro grui ti it record la Is interesting in showing the pros of this filsht flight for vor hose those who do not know ll 11 may bo be til to espial explain that the barograph iq 1 nn art instrument aleh registers altitude and by inkins of a len point filled with Indell indelible blo ink it records the variation in a it tou constant stant line on it piece of 1 aper which li moved ground bv br clock n work ork story told by barograph lails barograph record that in the first fifteen minutes I 1 rose to a height of 4 zoo feet the increasing of the climb are indicated by the fact ant that at tho the end of the nest next wu minutes I 1 was only about feet high but tho the line traced by thu the pen up to thia this pout point Is fadly steady and nd only when it passes th I 1 foot toot mark doe it begin to waver it was oas during shii part of my iny night flight that bat the train began to tell ulan me and the of my climb wa interrupted by frequent deac debee euta tits in lit the file nett next few minutes ini I 1 rot got myself together better tor for tho the lino line shows a sudden jump of nearly a thousand feet in about lire fire minutes minu tea and then it la Is plain to bo be seen that my troubles began for the tine line from feet to the topmost limit aich waa was gratl close to tho marl la Is little more than a blu it chous that the pen point wn ant a vacillating up and donn dovin and up and down and I 1 eh all ih ill not soon forge the plunges and jumps the bumping the bumps the th rough riding that c cluied ahn line to tale take such nn an 1 I 1 hid set out to make 1 feet and when I 1 was sure suro that I 1 must be somewhere where near there I 1 looked nt at my and found that it registe red nearly to thousand fott fe it short of my mark I 1 b h id almost reached the limit of my strength it q emed 1 impossible tn to muke make the buerlot climb any higher ve v I 1 coved shored her nose up at tit an all angle that thre destruction if any thing went tent 1 rone but the motor only aptt i v and dragged drugged her to fu N ird tra horizontally without se calu tu pull her up an all inch I 1 decided to eft what an increase In creise of speed would mould do accordingly I 1 headed beaded the noe of the buerlot downward and with the engine running nt tit its utmost I 1 took it deap plunge into the belv bol r and kept i lunging until ni tit gilld must bao hae been powen here bear near IN mile an hour then with this tremendous impetus I 1 headed beaded the inn chine chino upward jaan at a good angle and waa was rejoiced rejo keil t and that I 1 not no only cill y climbed above my barting starting tar ting point but that the propeller prop tIler seemed able to bold hold me there without difficulty time mine after time I 1 tried this extremely dangerous ding erous expedient and at the end of each rise I 1 found myself a little higher than I 1 had been before ond and beet best of all I 1 found that I 1 was able t to hold the ad advantage vantage thus gained attended by shrieking fiends I 1 cannot explain adequately just abat i hat 4 tremendous impression wa was lle upon me by these aerial hundl hurdles es 9 on tle downward slope I 1 seemed to V bo be hurtling madly into eternity catapult cato cil ed toward the earth and attended lr ly all fill the abrie klas lend lends of 0 f the nir air the wind screeched pest my ears 31 maddening shreds seemed toc nie to whip into m my 7 eyes with knife edges that sometimes 11 as though they were cutting into the flesh lvery square lach inch of ray body felt as though it were belne being gripped by unseen hands that were literally lifting mo inc from ray cat tent so great was wa the pressure of the air as 1 rushed through it I 1 had to hold m my bronah und and shut iny my eyes for it was impossible isible to inhale in the terrific rush of the n wind antl past ny m mouth and to hare have held the eyes open would be to hare courted blindness temporary at tit I kaat ilat lat when I 1 turned upward I 1 went bt ri 1 an angle little short of suicidal had anything failed it would hare been impossible for me to get the machine on mi 1111 icca keel ald head her downward ard there would have been no alternative ter tor native but a beckward bick ward drop to in evitable eri table and awful destruction I 1 or about tN twelve elve minutes as shown b ab the barograph record I 1 continued this moans means of attaining my poal goal I 1 inilla ly I 1 looked at my barograph and sa saw as I 1 thought that the needle bid reached the 10 mark marl I 1 thought of nothing then but of ending the strain and getting to earth again as quickly aa as possible so I 1 headed her downward and topped at such terrific speed that the indelible ink in thu the aln point could not flow fast enough to make n mark and my barograph r cord plows no trace whatever of my descent it 14 1 for this reason that I 1 doubt whether any human blag bing eer lived through gli such a tall fall for I 1 know of no other barograph record on which the same condit conditions ioni can bo be found tho the first part of this upwind climb w wu ia anio tb th and aas with ono one eveet lien lait exception which Illus illustrato trat ed another phase of tho the rough riding I 1 in the air firof of bumping tle aerial I 1 bumps ame tame aa I 1 burst through the clouds and into the sunlight above here wo we always expect to find gusty winds the clouds siem stern to have bare tho the effect of breaking up air currents just is bills hills and alleys will do on tho the earth and the change of temperature from the cool moisture ure of the mist to tho the dry heat of the direct bis h is a ten tendency denev to create whirlpools and vortices that are mighty basty things to fight in tit an nero aeroplane plane holes in the air still mother another phase of aerial rough riding Is due to the holes in the air I 1 have heard a great many people culo cule this expression and they have been surprised when I 1 have asserted that these boles holes nally do exist and that they are a n constant menace to the ai lator I 1 mot inot them first very early in my ex per lence when I 1 beg began an practicing tt tp tude flying nt tit my private grounds at baull Kaul lu u in sly my first ccle alence with thim thi m wa was a complete aur ur prise tr tn me I 1 was flying comfortably nul nt tit a height of about 3 fee it wa was 4 sunset on a I 1 et factly calm cairn summer afternoon and not a breith bre ith had bad disturbed tue fro from in the time I 1 hid find let lc the earth so had bad my climb gone on that I 1 had relaxed my vigilance all and d was sitting back comfortably reilly enjoying the flight when nhea suddenly the buerlot Iller lot to drop from under me and I 1 ft it myself falling straight for the earth for a hundred feet or more I 1 should siy sty wo felt fell and then the buerlot landed on a cushion of air and I 1 larded on the scat sent of the buerlot with n bump that jarred me we fortunately I 1 aa headed slightly downward nt the time and was able to rew reco er my m equilibrium I 1 ut the shock of the tp was lent feat for ovo day of flying for such tt a novice as I 1 was nt at that time and I 1 came to earth nt at once 1 amien lien glenn curtiss made his f fi 1 moua flight from albiny to new jorl ork he was ye sei oral erat times almost thrown from bis his scat by these sudden drops through boles holes in the nir air bo serious an impression did it make upon bis his mind that I 1 am told he ba lias since hid bid tho the back of his seat made with little curved lutat braces that go over his shoulders pud ond bold hold him firmly donn dou upon ba his bar most must watch constantly I 1 the philosophy of the bole hole in the airl air it wms that kanj a conditions of sun clouds and earth will arh braig g about different conditions of air ov conr r practically the samp same locality in one biale there will lo iw 10 a it rising warm current and next to it a cold current that falls fall 3 bonard tho the ground an aviator in fly ing lug through the warm current adjusts his hn machine and his mind to the con c n dillons nut with in that particular D phase of atmosphere suddenly he pusses from this rising current to the falling cold air the power of the atmosphere ts Is decreased the machine plunges downward und continues to plunge until the aviator recover recovers himself sufficiently to adjust his machine to the chang chaug ed c conditions 0 met with tu the atmos I 1 here of lower temperature so too th tb te re are whirlwinds and vortices farmed and sometimes between the warm and arid cold currents pockets of extremely rarefied rare fled air that offer tidally no support for a flying machine rhese things arc are as I 1 have aid said usually met only bj b the men who fly very high above the earth still tho the man who flies close to th the e ground will frequently encounter hills and valleys in the air not so great nor M w suddenly presented as these there bumps bu nips and boles holes thet thit I 1 have described bed but yet unpleasant and dis concertina enough to put bla his nerves oa on edge and give gire him an uncomfortable sensa sensation clou for davs dars afterward no flying Is to cot the smoothest and easiest kind of traveling especially especial ly when there Is rough riding to be done when there are aerial bumps to I 1 be bened bui bu ned |