Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1910 — STRAIN OF AVIATION [ARTICLE]

STRAIN OF AVIATION

Too Much for Many Airmen Who Have Become Famous. Many Aviators Give Way to Younger Pilots, as Wear of Fearing High Tumbles Is Too Great "to Be Withstood. Rome.— M. Emile Dubonnet, the French airman, is about to give a up flying. His retirement supports r the : contention of more than one medical authority that the nerve strain of frequent flying is so great that it forces a man to abandon active airmanship n an extraordinarily short space of time. . Many airmen admit that this is so, and there is remarkable proof of it in t e fact that, although airmanship is in Its infancy, the earlier pioneers are already vanishing and new champions take their place. The following pioneers have already retired,from active, flying in public: M. Paulhan—lntends to devote himself almost entirely to constructional work. M. Bleriot—Has given up all except experimental flying with npw machines of his own invention. Henry Farman— Has abandoned flying save for trials with newly designed machines. Wright Brothers—Fly very rarely, being mostly concerned with constructional work. M. Rougler—Retired after a bad fall In the sea at Nice.

M. Fournier—Ceased to fly after a number of falls. M. Duray—Forced to give up flying after being badly injured by a bjow from his propeller. Mr. Moore-Brabazon—Has relinquished flying at'meetings! Mr. Cockburn—Will do no more ex hibition flying. Mr. Gibbs —Compelled to retire temporarily as the result of a heavy fall at Wolverhampton. . Captain Dickson —Does not expect to fly at meetings after this season. . Glen H. Curtiss—Has Very largely relinquished flying in faVor of construction. M. Sommers—Has become a constructor and rarely flies. .Mr. Raw^linson —Obliged to discontinue flying after his accident at Bournemouth. Mortimer Singer—After a fall at Heliopolis last season, has not flown again. Mr. Grahame-White thus describes the nervous strain of flying: “It is the tension of fearing that something unexpected may happen—that the engine may fail, that a stay may break, that a controlling wire may snap. Any one of these things may, one knows quite well, bring about a.fearful fall. The rush qf air and the fact that one is high abdve the ground, has very little to do with the ordeal,” “Experience already pfoves,”-was the comment of an international authority, “that flying will become far more easy; aeroplanes are on the eve of enormous development so far as reliability is concerned.”