HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-05-07, Page 7How. fast and Ho* Far Can Humans Fly
Our Future Airplane Speeds Will Be Almost Unlimited—
But Man Must Train His Body and His Senses to
Withstand the Strain, Says Noted Army Aviator
first uncertain "gasoline buggy" after
years of hard, gruelling test,
Just so the airplane of the future
rill ernerge from its present adoles-
cent stage into a thing of now un-
dreanaml perfection.
Nothing is impossible in connection
with .irplanes. TWenty-fiV$ years ago
the thought of ream flying in heavierthaaa. • cleat was regarded as ridicu-
lous. And yet, look What man has ac-
By Lieutenant Lester J. Malawi 111
The New York Herald -Tribune.
Mau will be able to Ay great dis-
laneeS, at tremendous altitudes and
With Unheard-of speed, as soon as he
can train bis body, his nerves and his
eyes to take advantage of the ma-
ehinery ?engineering gehius will put
at his diepoSal.
This is my answer to the three tales -
lions of how fast?—how high? --how
t000n?—that are continually being ask- eQ3UpUSileU,
ad by every person remotely interest- He has not only learned to keep him-
self aloft, but has been able to fly
oceans, conquer all sorts of hazards
and even carry on successful warfare
from the clouds:
What, then, can we no., accomplish
in the same amount of time in the fu-
ture?
We can only judge the possibility ot
future accomplisbments in the light of
past ones, 8,nd, taking the last twenty -
ed in aviation.
..How soon the human machine can
be trained along these lines still re-
loaalias to be seen. In the light of the
achievements of our present-day fly-
ers, I would say that the day is not
far off.
Many records have been broken in
t ears Planes have climbed dis-
tances into the sky hitherto believed
five years of progress as a standard,
italiossible. Over 40,00Q feet above the
the vista that opens out before stu-
earth, man-made machines piloted by
dents ot aviation is practically un-
buman eagles have soared and come
down safely. ' limited in its scope of possibilities and
A plane piloted by Squadron Leader probabilities'.
Orlebar of the Royal Air Force has I Think of arising at a fairly early
ushed through the air at a speed
, hour in New York, having breakfast
3rof
aore than 350 miles an hour. And the
and, due to the difference in time, ar-
x
, g
teat of remaining in the air for weeks rivinon the West Coast in time to
at a time has passed into the realm of . carry on a day's work!
i This is not idle dreaming. It is pos-
the usual, Bible. The great strides aviation leas
And to the public asking just how
uch records affe.ct commercial avia-
made in the last few years bring near -
bon, may answer iThe whole future er and nearer the possibility of man's
as:
ot commercial flying is bound
being able to bend time and. space to
up in
his will.
theee eameriments.
This fast time, according to scien-
The machinery that has so lightened
the work of the farmer was achieved tists, will be made in the upper re -
through experimentation. The auto-
gions of the air.
mobiles that now travel at so swift a The efforts made by flyers to -day to
pace over our roads came from the almost into unconsciousness, and at
;reach the ulginate ceiling are fax more
' important than a mere desire to shat-
ter a record. one time he was completely "out."
Were it not for that fact that he re -
It is up there, at a height incompre-
covered almost instantly that race
hensible to the Ordinary person, that
would have ended in tragedy.
air lanes may be found civetwhich the
planes of the future will fly at light- I myself was thoroughly fagged out,
ning speed. and so I could understand his. state
It is already known that in these up-
per regions there are winds that blow
at hundreds of miles an hour. It re-
quires no great stretch of the imagina-
tion to realize the desirability of a
fast plane's taking advantage of a
wind blowing 300 miles an hour.
Mt. Robson, the Loftiest. Peak of the Canadian Rockies
more about another part of flying that
exacts its physical toll from the axle-
or—speed flying.
In the Pulitzer race in 1922, Nvhen
I raced with Lieutenant Maughan,
plane reached a speed of more than
200 miles an hour.
He come down from the gruelling
test completely exhausted, and sald
that at times when the plane was tra-
velling at this then unprecedented
speed he was absolutely lost in a haze.
On every turn he said he was stunned
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We know from Lieutenant Orlebar's
record that planes can be flown at
more than 300 miles an hour. We also
know that thera are swift trade winds
in the upper regions. Knowing these
two things, the next step is to com-
bine the two and thus increase the
speed. of our flying.
These upper regions lure every fiyer
on. They hold mysteries, and atmin.lle
. time they hold the greatest pos-
sibilities.
Here again the flyer's physical abil-
ity is taxed to the, utmost. Thin air,
lack of oxygen and subzero weather
are the great foes of 'flyers at the
maximum. "ceiling."
There are many menaces in altitude
flying. But, just now I want to say
of complete enervation,
After making sharp turns flying at And lighten some heart with a heavier
fast speeds I have gone "blind." This part,
condition is caused by the blood being I'd not 'withhold it—
dial from the brain by the sudden Would you?
turn in direction, While uncomfort-
able, it Is only a temporary condition, ; When men in an older day jilted a
for when the ship gets back on an , girl she took it to heart, but now she
even keel the head .clears instantly.takes it to court.
Th sensation is somewhat like, hav-
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a bright sun suddenly dispel a i Wife No 999—"And do you love me,
darn cloud.
, ' your majesty?"
At the present time the aerain of King Solomon—"I certainty do, my
fast flying is terrific. It is not, oply s. dear. Why, you are one in a thous-
paysical strain but a nervout' strain env,
1.5 well. When the upper ale Ianrei
fathomed, however, therts 'VV qle a
. 'eat change in the eteetnil, ' .• ,g.
'
Earth bound vehicles arie6eie ed
in their possibilities for speed.. ;!hey
travel now as fast as they can athin meet. Money isn't everything, but its
the limits of safety. It is not because the only thing that keeps breaking
they are unable to go taster, but be- from being a crime. The instant a
cause it is not safe to do so.
The ground is covered with 'living
things constantly crossing and recross-
ing each other's paths. Too great
speed endangers not only the We of
the speeder, but the rest of the :world
as well.
No such condition exists in the air.
The speed limits of the airplane rest
only on the ability of the pilot and
the worth of his plane and motor.
My opinion Is that the. pilot is tbe
thief one to be considered in the race
for faster air travel. Engineers to -day
can transfer from paper to reality
faster planes than we are as yet able
to fly.
When man is able to train his body
to stand the strain, and his senses not
to give way under the terrific pressure
of tremendous speeile and great
heights, he will find we" •1. for him, I
am sure, the plane iliti. will make it
possible to eat up distance at a ,pace
beside which the present 350 miles an
boar will be but child's play.
As the airplane industry grow e old -1
er, we are constantly finding out more'
and more about fuels. It is amazing,
in the light of recent cliseoveries, honi,
little we really knew at first about •
this most important part of flying.
Our main struggle now is to get an
ideal fuel—one that will weigh less
and furnish more power—and to find
a means of lubricating the motor ef-
ficiently under all weather conditions,
As for the motors that are being ,
made to-day—they are marvels of en-
gineering construction. They stand
up under hours of flying at terrine
speeds. The motor of the future, plane
will undoubtedly be better, however,
along with the rest of the machine.
No matter to what degree of effi-
ciency the plane itself is developed,
unless we find some way of suecess-
fully combating the laclr of oxYgen
and the low temperature of the upper
regions we cannot fly there.
The ordinary person cannot -a -and
will not—travel by air unless •it • is
made comfortable for hira. It is our
business as pilots and explorers of the
air to undergo hardships to prove that
fast flying is feasible. But we must
offer oomfort and safety berore the
world will fly with US,
Every one can use his imagination
as to what the air liners of the future
will be, what they will look like and
i whether they can in comfort span. the
11 continent la six hours. Science and
the capacity ot human beings for In-
1 vention will bring these. things to us.
But no matter whether the coming
plane have a hermetically sealed Cabin
1 or something else, of ono thing I am
i Sure—all things are poelsible lit tb.e
future of aelatIon. ,.
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minding your own business, drinking
plenty of water, lighting for fresh air,
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