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The Winged Man

How Clem Sohn Learned to Fly in the Jump of Death

A

By Victor. Burnett

LITTLE more than

a year ago a young American profes- sional parachute jumper became tired of just falling through the air for 10,000 feet and then onening his

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So, to pass the time away, he began experimenting as he fell.

He discovered that by moving his arms and legs he could actually control his headlong dive to earth.

At first there wasn't much control-just sufficient for him to rise and fall a few inches in

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WHO'LL BE NEXT

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He continued this now and fascinating game..

And a few weeks Inter he managed to control his dive so much that he could actually swim in the air, by moving. his arms, legs and head in the same way as if he was in the water.

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Now that it is known that Mr. Neville Chamberlain is des

This, in turn gave him an- tined for the Premiership in the very near future, considerable other idea. speculation exists in political He thought about it for some circles as to who will succeed time, and then decided to put it him as Chancellor of the Ex-into practice. chequer.

He knew that no

man hud ever succeeded in flying with his own wings before. Ho also knew there would be great risk. But the temptation was irresistible.

Some reshuffling of He wanted to make himself # the Cabinet will be inevitable pair of wings. when Mr. Baldwin resigns, but] whether this will be partial or complete at this stage has not yet been disclosed. Four names are being mentioned for the post which Mr. Chamberlain is to

With a friend, Art Davis, he vacate; two of these are of Con-made his first pair of wings, servatives, and the other two of And, to a certain extent, they Liberals. The Conservatives are worked. Sir Samuel Hoare and Sir King-

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THE

TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

spreading

my

legs and open- ing my tail fin.

"That stopped me turning over and over, and me in a put straight fall. After that, just ns . slowly, I.

"But those first wings taught me a lot. I fooled around with them for some time, and developed some inore ideas to. make them more efficient.

"From then

I've gone on and on, always

new

sets learn..

spread

one CLEM SOHN, the Birdman, with his wings outstretched. wing. The fall

He was killed yesterday when his parachute failed to open. began to stop, and I started flying straight, "My first spin scared me stiff, trying out with a slight roll and banking and when I did get out of it I ing from the drawbacks of the movement, owing to all the lift said to myself. No spins, Clem; last. being on one side. Then I they're too hard, 'Oh, boy, that's opened the other wing.

what you've got to keep out of." And I still don't like them.

"And I flew.

"I must have been just as surprised as the people below.

"WANT to increase the span of the wings.ne "STILL think the big- much as possible. The greater geat scare. I ever had the wing span the more real turn, dive, climb a little even was when I tried to do a flick soaring I can do. Every new set.

roll. In that you drop one wing, has a larger span than the last. loop.

"One of the disadvantages is

I found I could fly straight,

"As I became more used to

turn over, and come out the right

that pair of wings 1 found 1 way up again. Well, it isn't the weight I have to carry. The could enlarge my scope, found really difficult in a real airplane two parachutes--one in cage the

--if you know how.

first doesn't open-weigh 75lbs. how far I could go, when I ought to stop.

Was

"I wanted to find out how alone. I could fly further if I with my own wings, I started all could reduce the weight. (Sohn right, dropped one wing, and carried two parachutes on his

fatal flight and neither opened). started to go round.

"I found some of the danger ous points, too. Looping Sir John Simon and Mr. Walter THAT young parachute dangerous. I don't often do it

"That's where the trouble "One day. I hope to be able to Runcimian. The last-named

jumper was killed in now, unless I have to.

came in. I started to revolve so land without the parachute, but France yesterday. His лате may, however, be ruled out, as

"As I reach the top of the loop fast I was around and in another I'll have to have a big wing span

to do it. there are rumours that he isWas Clem Sohn. He was twenty-

five years old. He has been do--lose-speed. And losing-speed before I know where I was. likely to retire from politics in ing parachute jumps since he is nearly fatal. The little air-

plane that is me decides to spin. In A Spin the near future. As to Sir was seventeen.

Over I go, head downwards, spin- Kingsley Wood, he was a most

For 5,000 ft. wing snapping off. I have to be All over the world, he was ning round and round like a top. efficient Postmaster General and

known as the Birdman..

As there are no fixed controls it "Hastlly I checked it, lost ever-present danger, even with has done good work at the

is very difficult to get out of the speed, and began to spin faster the apparatus I have now. I spin.

and faster. My heart was in my have to open the wings slowly

Ministry of Health, but few re- Ideas. From gard him seriously as the next Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Delayed Drops

.

I could get out of it.

"But with a big wing span there is always the danger of a

very careful of that. It is an

"What I do now when I leave- the machine is to stop the, tur

into a straight dive. Like Being In

"I learned on those first trials mouth. Down I went, down, because of it. Thus the choice seems narrowed Sohn was modest, quiet. He that you must catch a spin as spinning so fast everything be- down to two men-Sir Samuel smoked. a. little, drank a little soon as it starts, or it becomes came a blur.

a coft, increasingly difficult to pull your "I dropped 5,000 feet before bling fall with my tail, turn it Hoare and Sir John Simon."just beer." He had

faintly American accent. And ho self out.. The former is said to be quite didn't experiment blindly. "Some, at home as First Lord of the day, somehow, all men may be Admiralty and as being reluctant lable to do what I'm doing." to give up that post, but the

"From those first experiments, VICTORIAN SPEED LIMITS Treasury is a tempting prize for when I was doing delayed jumps, any Minister with ambitions. I got the idea for wings a real As to their qualities, both Sir flying surface that I could con- Samuel Hoare and Sir John trol in the air," he said.

invaluable to a

Another World "Then, one after the other, I slowly spread my wings. Then I soar away, turn, come back, WITH traffic conditions so much in complete, and in perfect order and turn again, until I am down to

the puble eye it la interesting repair, and shall so fix the glasses 1,000 feet.

not rattle to the Simon have the clarity of mind "I spoke to a friend. Art to recall that modern problems had that they shall

"There I judge my position Chancellor. Davis, an engineer. Between us their counter-parts in Victorian days, annoyance of passengers."

and open my parachute, floating Even in those days the question Ministerial Liberals would, of we worked out a pair of wings and to observe the methods of deal of speed called for drastic legislation, down to the flying field. course, prefer that Sir John to go between my arms and my ing with them.

for we find that "Every Driver shall

"I turn by slightly letting one Simon be given the post, but body, and a fin to go between my In the "Bye-Laws for Regulating during the hours of Divine Service

ng in and many. Conservatives, who con- lege. When they wore open they the Hackney Carrieges of Edin- on Sundays, or other days set apart wing in and twisting my feet.

burgh," issued by the Magistrates in for Public Worship by Lawful cede his abilities, would not relooked like a bat.

1880, we find it enacted that "Every Authority, drive at a walking pace "Then came the great day. I Driver shall, when driving, hold the while passing any place of Public

Worship." carefully, exercise in thoroughfares, and in

went up to the 12,000 feet re-caution.

drive

glon and jumped. I didn't passing crossings and corners, and Out for An Airing know what the wings would do. observe the ordinary rules of the

first few seconds.

gard the appointment with mark- ed favour. One aspect of the. question which has to be kept in mind is the preservation of the

of all-party complexion the Cabinet, though it is becoming increasingly evident that the Conservatives aim at. eventually

WATCHED. the air-off side.". taking complete charge of the

float plane

away: Evidently the driver who hugs the administration--whether under

me. Then, gradually, crown of the road was not unknown their party name or by the adoption of a new label remains stopped myself tumbling by even in those days. No Obstruction.

above

"I

?

"THE smoke bomb, that shows the line of flight, is let off almost us soon as I jump from the airplane.

"The actual flight is like be Ing in another world. There is no sound but the rushing of the wind past my face and the distant drone of an airplane · engine.

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Further, under the heading I was in an untried field. And, and, viz.The Driver shall keep to boy, didn't I know it in those the left or near side of the road on "Fares," we and the speed problem

meeting or being overtaken by any ogeln "For an Airing Into the Coun Carriage or any Rider, and he shall try within Eight Miles from the Cross not prevent any other person passing of Edinburgh the fare shall be 3s. him or his Carringe on the right or per hour. Unless the hirer wishes a slower pace, the rate of driving when out an Airing shall be at least six of

"And if I lose speed the wind miles per hour; and in the event. the driving being at a

"a slower pace than six miles an hour, contrary to dies away there is no sound at all. the wish of the Hirer, It shall be. to be seen; It is generally.

optional for the Hirer to pay the foro Little Black in the proportion of 3s, for overy alx agreed that the King will re-some future national crisis his Cases of obstruction must also miles to travelled. cognise Mr. Baldwin's services countrymen might again deaire have been prevalent, as witness the

followingNo Driver shall with Lighting also received attention. to the nation by conferring on his valued counsel. His depar- other Drivers or other persons, con- "Every Driver of a Hackney Corriego him a Peerage... This has sur-ture from the House of Com-gregate on the pavement or footpath shall, when driving after sunset, have plane circling in the distance.. a Hackney Carriage the lamps of such Carriage lighted Below there is a chequered map prised some people, but others mons will be a loss to that legis- at or near

stance, so an to obstruct the same, when required by the hirer; and, al- of fields and houses, with the air- say that on leaving the lative body, but, relieved of more or shall otherwise, in any way, cause though not required by the Hirer, drome a bright green patch in Lower Chamber it is esson-pressing anxieties, he will still ennoyance to any person passing the when, necessary."

Finally, we find even

the fume the middle. tial that he should have a platbe able to exert a considerable

The noise problem, too, required problem dealt with, for it is old "Somewhere on that patch form. This view, according to influence in political issues, and attention, for we read that "Every down that "No Driver shall amoko there are hundreds of little black a political commentator, arises his guidance will always be avail- Owner of a Hackney Carriage, shali on a stance, or when, waiting for specks, moving like ants. Those

keep the same, with all its append-parties or when driving.' a consciousness that in able when needed.

ages, and also the Harness, clean and

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from

stance.”

N. Gale

Specks

"If I look up I can see my air-