Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1920 — Another Use for the Airplane. [ARTICLE]

Another Use for the Airplane.

Eclipse observation by airplane is declared by Paul W. Merrill to be not chimerical. A modern plane could readily surmount any ordinary fog or cumulus cloud, though cirrus is usually too high, and, aside from cirrus clouds, the observer would have a wonderfully clear dark sky. And photographic observations are not out of the question. A DeHaviland plane with a Liberty motor, at 10,000 feet altitude, rides more smoothly than a train, and should permit direct photographs on a small scale, especially if the plane were equipped with a gyro •copic stabilizer. *