Escort Plane Pilot, Forced Down, Stays With Ship When Passenger Refuses to Use Parachute
Pins De Haviland
Between Trees to
Save Their Lives
First Accident of World Flight
Ends Happily Because of
Aviator's Daring
Landing.
Told B> I.OWKLL THOMAS
(Copyright, 1924-)
Disaster overcame one of the es
cort planes that accompanied the
world filers on t*ie first hop of their
long trip.
"All the planes that had escorted
us from Santa Monica were still with
us at Portland except two,” Lieu
tenant Smith relates. "One had drop
ped out. The other had been totally
wrecked in the mountains of Oregon.
"The second was an army Pe Havi
land from Crlssy field, San Francisco,
piloted by Lieut. William Sweeley,
and carrying a news photographer.
They were flying between Medford
and Eugene at an altitude of about
7.000 feet, and were directly above
one of the most mountainous regions
along the entire Pacific coast when
the accident happened.
"The photographer noticed that his
Cockpit was flooded with oil. He
wrote Sweeley a note. Sweeley climb
ed up out of his own cockpit and
confirmed this. Then, looking at his
oil gauge he saw that it was going
down fast. He knew then that one of
the worst things that can go wrong
.then you are in an airplane had hap
pened.
"Sweeley at once throttled the
motor down just ns far as possible
h tplng to be able to keep it. from
overheating until they could descend.
Then he looked all around at. the
terrifying peaks beneath him, and far
ahead, fullv 15 miles away, he saw
what appeared to be a small field
where he might have a chance of
bringing the ship down without
cracking it up.
His Motor Freezes.
"But no sooner had lie started to
glide than his motor froze. A moment
later a connecting rod broke. By now
the whole ship was shaking violent
ly from nose to tail, shaking as
though she would fly to pieces. Then
two more connecting rods let go.
Sweeley well knew how desperate
was their predicament. He knew that
there was just one thing to do and
he prepared to do It.
"Dnbuckllng his safety belt, he pre
pared to jump and descend with his
parachute. He made signs to the pho
tographer to do the same. Both of
them, like all present-day army avia
tors, were- flying In parachute har
ness all ready for just such an emer
gency. All that they had to do was
'all over the side of the ship, pull
the ring to release the ‘chute.' and
gently drop for 7,000 feet Into the
tree tops.
"But to Sweelev's eonternation his
passenger refused to jump. Sweeley
itarted to climb out over his cockpit
ind compell him to save himself. But
the photographer leaned so far back
In his seat that Sweeley could not
reach him. all the time violently shak
ing his head, signifying that he
vould not jump.
Pilot liefusps to Save Self.
“Disgusted, but refusing to s>ve his
twn skin and desert his passenger
tweeley sat down and rebuckled his
lafcty belt. By now the plane was
rail ling crazily ont of control and
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Srveeley plurktly attempting tn right
the plane again, succeeded, and then
started looking for a possible opening
in the trees.
"As they swooped down toward the
mountains Sweeley picked out two
tall straight pine trees. He calculated
correctly. When the plane hit the
two trees the wings crumpled off
way up In the topmost branches a
hundred feet off the ground. Some of
the other branches partially stopped
the plunge of the rest of the ship.
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third tree, a burned pine, with an
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Impact It knocked the engine right
out of its bed.
“Down crashed the wreckage to
the earth. Sweeley remembers humor
ously saying to himself that the
whole thing was just like a movie
thriller. Hut In a moment he had re
gained his senses and glanced up and
saw the tree that they had just
struck swaying dizzily for a moment.
Then he saw it come smashing right
down on top of them.
"By some miraculous stroke of luck
It hit the plane, hut missed Sweeley.
He was unhurt except for a deep gash
over one eve. !n fact, the blood was
spurting from the rut in such «
stream he was convinced he had lost
his e\e. Crawling out of the wreckage,
he kicked a hole in the side of the
fuselage and hauled out his passen
ger, who was squealing at the tops of
his lungs.
I,and on Top of Mountain.
"Sweeley discovered they were upon
Hie top of a mountain, apparently
miles and miles from nowhere, lie
told the photographer that the thing
to do was for each of them to walk
for three hours in opposite directions,
and then, If either or both failed to
find any one, to retrace their steps
back to the plane. But the photogra
pher was hysterical and refused to
move, complaining that he had In
jured his ankle and wanted to stay
where he was. Sweeley in disgust
knocked his passenger down and liter
ally forced him to do ns he was or
dered.
"After walking for three hours.
Sweeley, finding no one, returned to
the plane to discover that the photog
rapher had had better lurk. He had
encountered two men who had seen
the plan# fall and who had started to
the rescue. They were miles from
transportation and medical aid. They
had to walk seven miles before they
came to a place where they could ob
tain a horse and wagon; then they
had to drive another 15 to the near
est railway. A doctor assured Sweeley
he would lose his eye. But they took
the next train for San Francisco, and
there Sweeley discovered he would
not lose his eve and there was no
danger of his losing ills sight. I.leu
tenant Sweeley was officially com
mended for bravery and gallant be
havior by (Jen. Charles Morton, com
mander of the Ninth army corps area.
Magellan* Fly to Seattle.
"After one night In Portland we
again motored bark to the flying
field over on the Washington side of
the Columbia, and, despite heavy fog,
we again set out for Seattle. We
rrossed nearly the whole state of
Washington without seeing a sign of
(he earth until we dropped down a
few miles south of Seattle, and de
scended to Sand Point flying field on
the shore of I<ake Washington, from
whence we were to hop off Into the
unknown."
When th« world filer* left Santa
Monica, everybody got away hut Erik
Nelson. His cruiser was not ready.
At dawn on March 15, Erik and his
flying partner, "Smiling Jack." start
ed from Clare field to Join the globe
girdlers. A blinding rain drove them
down at Eugene, Ore., after they
had made a non-stop flight of 775
miles. Next to the hop of S'JO miles
from Iceland to Greenland, this was
the longest jump made on the entire
flight. The next day Erik passed over
Vancouver flying field, near Portland
'aw the other three had evidently
gone on, so kept straight ahead and
landed in Seattle a half hour behind
the other world fliers, who had start
ed two days before him.
In Seattle Nearly Three Weeks.
Although the flight was officially
supposed to start from Clover field,
Santa Monica, the fliers themselves
never really considered that they
were getting under way until they
hopped off from Seattle. They mere
ly regarded the trip from Los Angeles
as a test flight. They hadn't even
assembled their equipment nor named
their cruisers, and there were still doz
ens of finishing touches to he added.
Nearly three weeks were spent in
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Seattle, working on the planes out «t
Sand Point field during the day. and
at night poring over maps at the
College club. They also spent hours
talking with sea raptains, trappers,
and others who had spent their lives
along the Alaskan and Siberian
roasts. In order to piek tip as much
Information about the remote and
lonely harbors and rlimatic condi
tions lti the north Pacific as possible.
Each crew put In a rifle so they
could shoot game In the event of a
forced landing, and they also took
along fishing tackle so that they
would he somewhat better off than
lioblnson Crusoe if they happened to
get marooned on an uninhabited isle
in an uncharted sea. Each man also
had an automatic pistol to use In
case of emergency, and each ship
carried a Very pistol with which to
fire off red, white and- green signal
lights. Each cruiser also carried two
quart thermos bottles full of concen
trated food and a few pound* of
chocolate and malted milk tablets
Major Martin and Sergeant Har
vey were to make good use of these
during their wanderings In th» unin
habited Arctic fastnesses of the
Aleutian peninsula, whils Smith and
Arnold found found their Very pis
tols very very useful Indeed for
frightening natives, out along the
China coast, when swarms of river
dwellers approarhed the world mils
era In their sampans. Every article
was carefully weighed. The cruisers
could not be depended upon to get off
the water If the total weight of plane
and cargo exceeded 3,200 pounds.
This meant that in addition to the
weight of the cruisers and crew there
was a bare 300 pound margin for
spare parts, guns, camera, anchor,
personal effects and so on.
Fliers’ Clothing.
So each man was limited to two
changes of underwear, a fur lin'd
flying suit weighing 11 pounds, fur
lined gloves, heavy Arctic muckluks,
two flannel shirts, two pairs of golf
stockings, one pair of hunting hoots,
a cap, handkerchiefs, two tiny water
proof match boxes, and the proverbial
-safety razor and tooth brush. They
even had to throw overboard tho
parachutes and life preservers which
had been Included In the original
list of equipment.
Arnold With Smith.
It was in Seattle that the only
change in personnel of the world
flight was made. J.leut, I.eslle Arnold,
one of the alternate pilots, was in
vited by l.leut, 1.0well Smith to tak"
the place of his mechanic. Sergeant
Turner, who had suddenly developed
lung trouble.
The selection of “I.es'’ Arnold
turned out to be a liappv one. for he
excelled In just those things which
are a hit out of “Silent” Smith's line.
For instance, after Major Martin's
crash, when the command fell ‘to
Smith, to the latter fell the job of
paying the usual visits to officials
in foreign countries, responding a'
banquets, and so on While Smith is
a man of few words “I.es'' Arnold
can speak almost as well a' he ran
fly. So he was able to relieve his
commander of much responsibility
along this line.
\rpold Kept Diary.
Another thing Arnold did which
was extremely Important—far more
important than any of them realized
at the time—was to keep r complete
diary of the entire trip. And in set
ting down the story of the first cir
cumnavigatlon of the world by sir
\ve will depend very largely upon his
diary. Much of It was jolted down
while he sat In the rear cockpit, fly
ing across open seas and remote
countries, and while sitting on the
lower wing or pontoon, or at night
while his companion Rlept.
“Everybody asks us how our world
cruisers got their names,” Lieutenant
Arnold tells me. “Washington pre
ferred the Idea of naming them afier
four important cities that had been
partleularlv backward in aviation in
the hope that this might, result in
stirring up interest, among the in
habitants. Tt could hardly fall to ap
peal to their prlds In case their cruis
er happened to get ail ths way
Ground."
Hop-off From Seattle.
“We were in Seattle from March
22 until April Arnold continued.
“Bidding farewell to our relatives
and friends who had assembled here
at the uttermost city of the United
States to see us off, w*e rowed out
to our planes, found everything in
readiness for the start for Alaska,
cast off our moorings and taxied off
across the lake. Major Martin took
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