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- GYROSCOPE
- Doolittle's flight depended on a new gyroscopic artificial horizon that kept the needle level even when the pilot's inner ear said otherwise, a device Elmer Sperry helped refine for exactly this challenge.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- HOOD
- A simple canvas hood was fitted over the cabin so Doolittle could see nothing outside the plane, his safety pilot, Lieutenant Ben Kelsey, sat in the open front seat to take over if anything went wrong.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ALTITUDE
- A newly developed sensitive altimeter, accurate to within a few feet, was one of the three key instruments Doolittle relied on, without it, landing blind would have been nearly impossible.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- AVIATOR
- Doolittle was already a celebrated stunt flyer and air-race champion before September 24, 1929, but this quiet, hooded flight over Long Island became his most consequential achievement.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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On September 24, 1929, Doolittle flew and landed blind, guided only by instruments. This word search opens in your browser, no account and nothing to install.
About The First Blind Flight: Jimmy Doolittle, September 24, 1929
On September 24, 1929, at Mitchel Field in New York, Jimmy Doolittle climbed into a Consolidated NY-2 biplane wearing a canvas hood that blocked every outside view, and flew a complete circuit guided only by cabin instruments. He used an artificial horizon, a directional gyroscope, and a sensitive altimeter developed specifically for the feat, trusting dials and needles where pilots had always trusted their eyes. The eighteen-minute flight proved that an aviator could take off, navigate through fog or darkness, and land safely without ever seeing the sky, a revelation that quietly became the foundation of all modern aviation.
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