Show I AIR PILOTS ARE TRAIN TRAINED D TO FLY BLINDFOLDED I Depend on Instruments and Directive Radio Beam Chicago A Chicago A few tew miles to the west of ot the Chicago municipal airport an airplane appeared In the sky the drone of or Its engine engino steadily Increasing as It flew directly toward the field along the airway leading Into tho the Windy City from rom the Pacific coast As the Ule plane soared by tho the airport airport air air- port n a fiel field attendant on top a n hangar spoke Into a radiophone Murray you Oll passed two hundred yards south of the field Circle around O 0 K replied the pilot who could see neither sky nor ground The fhe plane circled and once more headed for tor the airport Youre coming strai straight ht toward vard the field now the radio man mall advised and andIn andIn andIn In a moment the blindfolded pilot had guided the Ule plane over the center of the airport of ot United Airlines AIrlInes Air Mr Pilot PHot John Murray Iowa lines had flown the plane from Crom without seeing anything any any- nn anything City to Chicago In front Instruments thing except the effectually of ot him for tor the cockpit was cockpit cockpit cockpit cock cock- covered by a hood In another pit without a hood rode Ralph Johnson John John- Johnson son also a n United pilot but he didn't t touch the controls during the entire flight All pilots are arc now trained In meat flying and the latest Inventions for air navigation have been Installed on company planes The air transport transport transport trans trans- port company has recently been making makIng mak make Ing use of ot Its radio telephone communication between planes and the ground to lead the blindfolded pt- pt pilots pilots pi pi- lots directly to airports With the aid nid of ot his Instruments nn and the directive radio beam the latter lattera a series of code signals Identifying the course of ot the airway Murray was able to fly from Iowa City to Chicago without deviating from his course When he arrived at Chicago the aIrport airport airport air aIr- I port ra radio lo operator was able to lead him directly over the tIle airport |