"Blind" Boeing

Down to a three-point at Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal one day last week slid a little Boeing pursuit plane with a hood over its single cockpit. Out of it, grinning broadly, jumped a chunky, bald pilot who had just made the first completely "blind" flight across the U. S.

The pleased pilot was the Army's famed Major Ira T. Eaker, onetime co-holder of the world's endurance flight record. Five days previously he had taken off from New York with only his dashboard, his radio compass to guide him. For safety's sake a second plane convoyed him all the way, giving occasional information by radio. There were eight stops. Said Pilot Eaker: "We had two 'incidents.' Both were thunderstorms, and both were second hand as far as I was concerned."

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