Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1927 — Page 10

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Thrilling Air Escapes Credited to Lindbergh

BT MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY (United Press Staff Correspondent) (Copyright. 1927. NEA Service. Inc.) CHAPTER X During the winter of 1925-26, Charles A. Lindbergh, flying night after night through rain, snow, and sleet, twice saved his life by dropping in parachutes frm his disabled planes, making descents which stand among the most remarkable adventures in aviatipn. On one occasion his plane circled five times close to his parachute, once coming within 300 yards of it, threatening each time to collide as it paralleled his descent. On another occasion he came down first through snow and then through rain, to alight across a barbed wire fence while the wind pulled away at his parachute threatening injury. But Lindbergh was not as much as scratched. That winter probably stands next to the Spring of 1927 when Lindbergh flew to Paris, as the most thrilling of his life. It was on the night of September 16, 1925, that Lindbergh took off from Lambert Field, St. Louis, with the night mail for Chicago. Twenty miles beyond Peoria, 111., he encountered darkness and a blanket of fog began to cover the ground. By the time Marseilles, 111., was passed this fog blanket from an altitude of 600 feet entirely obscured the earth. He attempted to fly under it, but could not, and a flare which he dropped hoping to determine a safe landing place by its light, failed to work. He proceeded on to the Maywood flying field, the air-mail station for Chicago, but the fog was so thick he could not locate it. He then set out to pick up, if he could, the beacons of the Transcontinental air route but this also was impossible. Fuel Ran Low At last his fuel ran low. He had enough left for seven minutes flying. There was nothing left for him to do but to abandon the plane in the parachute—although he could not see the ground. “At 5,000 feet the engine sputtered and died,” Lindbergh wrote in his

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official report of what was to him merely an incident in the life of a flier. “I stepped up on the cowling and out over the right side of the cockpit, pulling the rip cord after about a 100-foot fall. I was falling head downward when the risers jerked me into an upright position and the chute opened. This time I saved the rip cord. t “I pulled the flashlight from my belt and was playing it down toward the top of the fog when I heard the plane’s engine pick up. When I jumped it had practically stopped dead and I had neglected to cut the switches. Apparently when the ship nosed down an additional supply of gasoline drained to the carburetor. Soon she came into sight about a quarter of a mile away headed in the general direction of my parachute. “I put the flashlight in a pocket of my flying suit preparatory to slipping the parachute out of the way, if necessary# The plane was making a left spiral of about a mile diameter and passed approximately 300 yards away from my ’chute, leaving me on the outside of the circie. “I was undecided as to whether the plane or I was descending the more rapidly and glided my chute away from the spiral path of the ship as rapidly as I could. Out of Sight “The ship passed completely out of sight, but reappeared again in a few seconds, its rate of descent being about the same as that oP the parachute. "I counted five spirals, each one a little further away than the first, before reaching the top of the fog bank. When I settled into the fog I knew that the ground was within 1,000 feet, and reached for the flashlight, but found it missing. I could see neither earth nor stars and had no idea what kind of territory was below. I crossed my legs to keep from straddling a branch or wire guarded my face with my hands and waited.” “Presently I saw the outline of the

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