Iron County Record | 1924-04-11 | Page 4 | Aeronauts Don't Land to Receive Messages

Aeronauts Aeronaut Dont Don't Land to Receive Messages The British h air service In Mesopotamia mia has perfected a scheme for tor delivering deliver dellver ing log written messages to planes without the necessity of their landing and stopping to pick up th the documents A line Is I. stretched between two poles pol about six feet high and perhaps twenty feet apart To this line the themes mes message age Is tied By Ry spreading large pieces of cloth on the ground In a pre pr prearranged prearranged arranged pattern the pilot of the aircraft air craft Is II signaled that there Is a I message message mes mel Oge sage for him the arrangement of the cloth doth also Indicates IndIcate In what direction Uon he must fly to cross the line between en th the poles at right angles If It more Dore than I Ione one plane Is III up DP the cloth doth again tells I which plane Is I. to the message mUSIe says the New York World The selected plane swoops low over I the poles and end the pilot dangles a line to the end of ot which Is le attached a hook This engages the time line to which the message roes roes- 1 sage cage Is tied and and- line message and allare all I are dragged Into the air The pilot I Ia reels In his catch as the plane speeds a If It the me message Is III to be delivered delivered I I ered the plane None simply dives to the point of delivery and drops time the mes roes I I i sage I The pilots have hae become Lecome very Ivery expert tl ert at picking up and dropping ages In this fashion oLo j L 1 I