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AN INTERESTING QUESTION.

Do Ex-Pilots Forget How To Fly?

By W.M.W. Thomas in The Morris Owner."

THE BULL BY THE HORNS,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1937.

by the Missouri highway com- accomplishment.

mission under the centennial

road law, passed by legislature, in 1921. Counties and other civil) aubdivisions have aided through| local bond issues.

FRENCH CASINGS

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Franco continuos to lead the world as exportor of automobile; casings, with the United States second and the United Kingdom third, the rubbor division of the Department of Commerce an-

nouncos.

The 1926 production of balloon tyre rims amounted to 79.1 per compares with 63.3 per cent in cont. of the total rim output. This

1923.

MISSOURI ROADS. $1,400,000 on this one highway. The same polioy was carried out on other routes. Progressive Campaign. Two hundred and fifty dangor- ous railroad crossings have buon Since 1921 Missouri has com-eliminated in the state by the plated 5000 miles of hardsurfacod re-location of routos. Eighty-two highways at a cost of $100,000,-grade separations have been con- 000. In addition to the completed structed with the railroads, the highways, the state has graded, roads paying half the cost. ready for surfacing, 2649 milos of

With the completion of the roads, a considerable part of

oliminated, through the construc- There is overy indication that parallel in motoring to this air-which will be lot by contract in atom all grade crossings will be MORE BALLOON TYRES,

1927. 1927 should seo a comparative sense, unlese, perhaps, we except

tion of underpass or overhand This is a part of the 7640-mile boom in aviation-private avia the fooling we all develop that

crossings or rolocation. The road improvement tion, that is, as distinct from the tells us when we are cornering scheduled for completion by 1935. short survos has been another campaign ol-imination of steep grades and subsidised air lines that operate too harshly, and that the wheels Most of the work is being done to and from the Continent, and are at the limit of their adhesion the many other forms of commer. and will skid if we do not ease cial aviation. Thanks mainly to either the stooring lock or the the introduction of small, cheap, spoed. aeroplanes (the progress of which has boon vory largely assisted by the enthusiasm of the Press) Light Aeroplane Clubs are spring ing up all over the country, and if their memberships, are not at presont extraordinary, yot in a quiot way a great deal of work is being done, and a considerable number of people are learning to fly with the ultimate object, no doubt, of one day becoming pri- vate owners of aeroplanes,

Correspondence and personal experience alike prove that among the ranks of Morris own- ors there are a large number of ex-officers of the R.FC. and R A. F, and, whatovor be the atirao tions of motoring to keep one's interest always alive in it there is no gainsaying that once one has flown that is, has piloted a inaching personally) one's interest in aviation never dies.

From among the number of ex- pilots who have probably not flown since the war there must be many who wonder whether they have retained their abilities to handle a maching in the air.

It so happens that this pro- sent writer had B lapse

In re-learning to fly, the curs for this lack of a once-possessed sonso is to do a really steeply- bankod turn, bringing the machino right over on its side so that the elevator acts as a rudder, and the rudder as the elevator. It re [quired all this writer's courage, screwed well up, first to attempt this once so familiar manoeuvre, not because there was any actual danger involved (for the benefit of those to whom flying is a closed book lot it hore be stated that so long as one has air-space on all sides of and bonoath the machine, one cannot got into any position from which an even kool- cannot oss ly be regained, but because one rather foared that one might lose one's, dignity in the eyes of the other occupant of the machine if he made a hush of it and side-slipped badly.

Actually, so soon as one folt that responsive tautness" in the controls and experienced again the zest of holding the machine firmly into its turn, more than

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It can reasonably be presumed 90 per cent, of one's confidence that these ex-pilota form a poten-came back. And that; probably, tial membership for Light Aero- is the secret of re-learning to fly. plane Clubs, but the question that After a few split-are turns all the is always uppermost in their old air-sense returns. One's minds, whenever the conversa- hands and feot worked together tion turns to aviation, is, "Havo automatically, and the instru I forgotten how to fly? Could I, ments and the horizon line no to-day, get in a machine, take it longer hold one spolibound. off the ground, manosuvre it and The next mental function that and it with any degree of cer-had to be reborn was the faculty tainty? Or should I fool all at for judging height and distance. sca and crush it?"

Naturally on the first two or three flights, when reinstating oneself into the ranks of pilots, of six years between war and one's instructor takos control for private flying, and to those who the landings. Those three or have doubts on the subject his four landings; however, are all experience may be of some little that is necessary, and the first interest. The matter is also "solo" landing, when one has quite worthy of the regard of the control onesolf, is unexpectly motorist who bas never flown, gond. One has had this confirm- and who probably has no inten-ed by other re-learners, but to be tion of ever flying, because hare, perfectly frank, throughout the again, arises the point that if one did not drive a car for a very long period would one, on rostarting again, be perfectly at home and safe on the road?

whole of one's war-time flying, landing, the actual contact of the machine with the ground, was never, even in the very early days, a matter of difficulty. If one regards the whole motion sa boing the same as keeping a car as close to the kerb on a corner

These modern small aeroplanes, too, land at spoeds with which all motorists are well'acquainted, so that there is no blurred vision due to unaccustomed velocity.

Naturally in flying one does not expect quite to retain the whole of whatever skill one had when one was used to it daily, as one can, the "landing," that but, thanks to the facilities now seems to be regarded by so many afforded, there is little or no as the most difficult thing in fly- danger attached to finding out ing, is perfectly easy. It is simply whether one has forgotten or not, an upwards instead of a sideways. because one simply goes up in a corner, and one has the necessary dual-control machine with an control of an aeroplane to elect efficient pilot who takes off and it. retains control until's reasonable hoight has been reached, when one takes over on the duplicato interconnected joy stick and rud- dor bar in one's own cock pit, and once again experiences the de It took, so far as he can re- light of fooling the machino re- member about half an bour spond to the controls. At first it "dual" in the air and four land- is strange. Pilots develop aings before this present writer certain sixth sense for side-slip was re-launched on his second on turns; that is, if one usca too first solo." That was on ᄆ much rudder and not enough 504K Avro, a very easy machine "bank" (the former controlled to fly. The reallention that he by the foot, and the latter by the had "forgotten" how to fly was lateral movement of the joy-¦ very complete, and was made all stick), the machine will skid out- the more so by the collection that wards. Too much bank and in- he had some seven years pre- sufficient rudder will causoa viously regarded flying that sido-slip inwards. After flying particular type of machine as for a little time these two eon- form of a busman's holiday. trols become automatically co- As for those ex-pilots who may ordinated, and one does not active- be thinking joining a Light ly have to think about them or to | Aeroplano Club-the total mom- watch the instrument that tells bership now. in oxistence, by whether the machine is side- the way, is close on 1,000-need slipping or not. It is the loss of have no qualms about having this automatic co-ordination that lost their old abilities. One does the old pilot, re-learning to fly, not suggest that any war-pilot notices immediately. The result who has not flown since the is that instead of sitting relaxed | Armistice would be able to land in the seat, his whole body is a machine in a smallish aorod- tense and taut with nervous ex-rome from 1500 feet with a stalled citement, and for the first few engine on his second first-solo. minutes after taking over control But after very little flying. ho he feels very, very much ashamed would have.rogained all his old of himself for his inability to re-efficiency.

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call what was his almost sub- Which fact, incidentally, is conscious sonso of directional | rather important Nationally, in stability. There is no direct case we have another war soon.

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The 1500 miles of primary highways pass through few small towns. This plan was adopted on the theory that "the increased traffic at those points would only result in inconvenience to motor-i ists and to the townspeople, and possible danger to both,

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