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8 PLANE INSPECTION PLAN IS SUCCESS Scheme Sponsored bv Maj. r -.veil Proving Great Fac* r in Reducing Crashes. A system of inspection. whereby »i«or« than <U) vital parts Os an air plane. tin* failure of any one of which in flight, would cause loss of equip ment. personal injury or at least in terrupt the mission of the pilot—re ceive close check and inspection daily by a competent mechanic, has just been installed at Wright Field. Day ton, Ohio, bringing the number of Army Air Corps stations using this accident prevention scheme to IV In this number Boiling Kind, Ann cosiia. is included and furthermore it wms at the fle’d that the perronn*’. tinder the direction of Maj. Harvey R. S. Rut-well, commanding office**, work ed out the system—known as visual inspection system—on a large scale. Maj. P.urwell is the father of the plan, which is blit a small part of a gi gantic, vet simple, method of running the Air Corps on the same principles that are employed in the leading indus tries of the country. This general plan still is in the process of experimenta tion and has not yet been adopted for tlie use of tbe Air Corps. Great Strength Required. Maj. Rurwell conceived tlie* idea a« embodied in the present system, while commanding officer of the 3d At tack Group at Kelly Field, Tex. “At tack aviation,” the latest development in aerial fighting, requires that planes, heavily loaded with bombs and ma chine guns, operate at altitudes of around 100 feet or so. raking the grotnd with steel bullets from the guns and tossing out demolition ttombs on troop concentrations and equipment. Flying st this altitude, forced landing would mean disaster in most esses to the pilot, gunner and plane, owing to the high explosives carried. , If attack aviation were to succeed. Maj. Burwell argued, there must, he no forced landings. His safety-inspection r -hetne was developed and applied to the group. Xot one plane had a forced landing in tw*o years' operation. Noting this success, higher officials of the Air Corps encouraged Maj. Bur well to apply his plan on a larger scale, nnd today 18 of the major Air Corps posts are functioning under this system. Neglect Impossible. In brief, the system makes if im possible for plane crews to neglect in spection of the smallest part of the aircraft. A large chart, setting forth the parts of the airplane that must be inspected, hangs on the hangar wall near the berth of the plane, and the * rew chief, after testing out each part, initials the chart for that particular section of the plane, in that respect he is held responsible for the condition of the plane as it is about to take off. Thus, when a pilot leaves the ground he knows hia propeller is in perfect condition, the fuel tanks are doquate for his mission, the ignition functions properly, the controls are properly adjusted, the instruments re true, the mechanism of the engine h >.s been thoroughly tested, the wings ■md tail surfaces are in proper align ment—in short, the plans is as perfect <*.-*. human hands can make it. Records of the Air Corps show that rarely have forced landings or crashes twen caused by major mechanical fail ti *es in the air. To the contrarv. it i« the seemingly inaigniftcant parts of tlv* plane that fail and necessitate the pilot making for the flrst available patch of ground. While he mav get down safely many times, there is al ways the possibility of “cracking up” •n the ground. Often the occupants of the nlane receive no injuries, but when such craek-ups occur on the ground, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dol <;-:rs damage to equipment is sustained. Safety Is Threatened. To continue flying for long periods without g.virg attention to these 60 or more necessary elements in the P'ane is possible, but Air Corps offi c l* now atgue that if this old time procedure were resorted to in the light c f the visual Inspection plan, it would constitute waiving all available safety precautions. The inspection system makes it pos sible for a pilot about to take off to trtl in one glance at the big board in the hangar that the plane is in safe condition. Should his eye catch a red mark in one of the little squares op posite an Important part of the plane, th-.t constitutes a warning that every thing is not es it should be. But if the pilot believes that this seemingly small defect is not dangerous or will r«t bring undue hazards on his project ed flight, he can take responsibility 6 way from the mechanic for the nh* ne's condition by signing his name cpnosite the day's inspection and be come responsible himself for anything th M happens subsequently. When a pilot departs for a cross- l country flight, say front Bolling to I POOLE’S AUCTION PRICES Save Yon Money! UPRIGHTS—PLAYERS Why spend several yeara paying for a high price piano or player-piano when you can have a good one that somebody had to sacrifice at auction prices? You’ll he surprised at these remark able values—come to our display rooms between 9 a.m. and 10;30 p.m. and see them. NO INTEREST —* cash deposit to hold the one EVERY ’ONE* GUARANTEED Washington Home—Baldwin and Weaver Pianos I,sv*pi lS?? AveTs.E. Near Avenue Grand Theatef P^l g,c ; U. D. C. CHAPTER ELECTS j MISS EMBREY PRESIDENT I Other Officers for Year Also Named. II Retiring Leader Is Praised. I The Robert K. l.ce Chapter, I'nited | Daughters of the Confederacy, met at t Confederate Memorial Home last I Monday evening and elected officers. J as follows: | President, Miss Mary Embrev: j first vice president, Mrs. Claude N. i Bennett; second v ice president, Mis. ! Horace Whittaker; recording scrip | tary. Miss Ora Smith; corresponding i secretary. Miss t’ornelin Long Hamil ton: treasurer, Mrs. F. O. Wood; rtgis trar, Mrs. K. H. Eynliam: parliamen tarian, Mrs. Maude Howell Smith: historian. Miss C. Blanche Sinclair: chaplain, Mrs. R. ft. Whitehurst: cus todian. Miss Elsie Weeks. Miss Myrtle Ketcham was retained as custodian of crosses. Tribute to Mrs. Walter E. Hutton, the retiring president, was paid in speeches bv Airs. George I». Horning, jr., nnd Mrs. Maude Howell Smith. An impromptu reception was held, when all of the officers going out were thanked for their fine work am' those just elected greeted. PARCEL BRINGS SHUDDERS AT RECEPTION TO KING Member of Court Carries Plebeian Looking Package at Formal Affair. Correspondent e n ’ ihe Associated Pres*. PARIS.— A little package wrapped in gray paper and done up with a pipk string caused an embarrassing incident at a royal reception at the Ely.see Palace. King Fuad of Egypt was being greeted by President Doumergue in the presence of scores of full-uniform ed officials and diplomats standing stiffly at attention. A member of the King's suite with ibe package hang ing by a loop from his fingers stepped forward toward the President. , Consternation reigned. Diplomatic usage does not provide for plebeian packages; rules for royal receptions say nothing about how to handle them. For a few minutes no one knew what to do and the Egyptian stoo.l , smiling in embarrassment. Then the ' President, realizing the generous if informal intention, took the package. Every one breathed more easily. The package contained an ancient Egyptian manuscript intended as a Rift for the French Republic. Wright Field, he carries with him an “airplane flight report.” on the bark of which is a trnnsnipt of the record of the plane’s condition as embodied on the board in tbe hangar. This is for the information of the pilot as well as the mechanic at Wright Field. On the face of the report and un der the heading, “Engineering Data.” several important functions of the plane ns it is in flight are listed, and the pilot is required to ohserve these performances while en route to the Ohio field. If he finds during .flight that the oil temperature increased, that the gasoline presente dropped or that the revolutions of the propeller were not what they should he. there is spare provided in the report for making these notations. On landing at Wright P'ield he turns the renort over to the mechanic. The latter immediately sets about to rectifv any reported inefficiency of the plane and then makes his inspection of the other parts, just as the Foiling Field crew* chief did. On the hack of the report he sets forth his findings. Complete Cheeks Kept. Returning to Washington the follow ing dav. the pilot hands the flight re port with the mechanic's notations of the inspection as well as any com ments the aviator himself has made, to the Bolling mechanic, who posts the result of the Wright P'ield inspec tion of his own chart. Thus, a con tinuous check on the plane is kept, no matter where it is and each flight, in effect, is a thorough test flight. In addition to inspecting, the me chanic. must make any repairs lie finds necessary, up to and including the removal of the engine. Any work that lie or his assistants cannot per form in the hangar, owing to its mag nitude. is Rent to tlie* engineering j hangar of the field, where a corps of 1 expert civilian mechanics gives the ship a major overhaul. A combination ladder, and tool box. mounted on wheels to facilitate its movement about the hangar floor, is credited to each mechanic. The tools are valuable and he is held responsible for them. Air Corps officers believe the sys tem is the very latest and most mod ern effort in the world today to reduce accidents, caused by mechanical or structural failure. The system has not yet been in existence long enough to draw a comparison between other I periods of the past, hut in the light ; of present success the aviators feel a j forced landing or crash, due to me chanical or structural failure, will 1 soon become a rare event. THE St yUA V -WASH tXftTOy. T). T„ "XOTEMBER 33, 1027— PART 1. Dining Room Suite Dining 1 4-Piece Bedroom Suite A wel * constructed and China Cabinet, 5 Side Chair* 7)hlong Extension H One of our finest suite*— signed and constructed of nicely finished suite in wal- S # and 1 Armchair with genuine T. ble, Buffet, Closed Scr- —inn Table. Server, Ruffe,: SKJa, an ideal price. 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