When I fly upside down....

 

TWO WINNERS OF AVIATION: Pégoud and Louis Blériot. ( Cl. Meurisse)

Who cares about a storm, when you don't have to bother about the perfidy of the atmosphere? And I'm certain that, at sea, the airplane will ALWAYS attach itself at first try to the cable which is fixed alongside the ship, without the slightest difficulty, without the slightest danger, even when the sea is very tangent. Here's the future of the seaplane, and I'm intending to continue soon my experiments at sea, where I think things will even go easier.      These experiments and my adventurous character drove me to persevere in acrobatics and while doing so I had noticed that my Blériot is a remarkably stable plane so a new idea took form in my brain. Besides, it came to me during a rather peculiar flight. ONE DAY AT 2000 METRES HIGH...      One day, flying at an altitude of 2000 meters, I came down in a "corkscrew"-curl. At once, I came to the idea of descending in a perfectly vertical

line. It was delicious: at the end of the 'corkscrew'-curl my airplane plunged perfectly vertical in the void. Amused by the novelty of this exercise and interested by its success, I kept on diving and got over the vertical. And very easy, without the slightest effort, I returned to horizontal flight. Very happy with the result, I saw here a source of really interesting experiments leading to more security for the pilot and most useable for aviation.      At another occasion, whilst performing a turn in a right angle as I always do, I received a blast of wind throwing me upside down and so out of the vertical. A little surprised by this strong blast I wanted to verify if my plane was still stable. But doing this, I was in no hurry to turn over again to upright position. On the contrary: perfectly cool I left my monoplane getting ahead like that for a few seconds and then took it back without problems to its normal position.