Auguring air travel in the future heedless of weather, an army air corps pilot in the hooded cockpit of a four-motored “flying fortress” flew the big ship entirely “blind” recently from the takeoff at Mitchell Field, Long Island, to safe landing 300 miles away atLangley Field, Va. Canvas shut out the view from his windows. All he could see was the instrument panel and the controls. The pilot, Maj. Carl B. McDaniel, with his, eyes on the air-speed and rate-of-climb indicators, the “artificial horizon” and the directional gyro, opened the throttles, held the ship on the ground until air speed read 110 miles an hour, then tilted the nose up. The plane leveled off at 4,000 feet and headed over the coast line for Langley Field. Radio contacts were maintained, but the course could have been laid by celestial navigation. As the landing field was approached Major McDaniel, worked out a conventional orientation problem on the radio range signal. Then at 800 feet from the airport a bulb on the instrument panel lighted. He tuned to the frequency of another radio marker beacon at the airport’s edge and the bulb flashed again. Five seconds later the wheels hit the runway with a slight bump. A six-man_crew and two civilians rode with Major McDaniel on the historic flight, Lieut. W. P. Ragsdale sitting at dual controls with an unobstructed view for safety in case of heavy air traffic.