The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1927, Page 9

a enter \ vy oe | [Next-2%e Five Thousand Mile Flistit! MAGIC CARPET of the LAME. - : | - PRINCE HAS BEEN BETTERED ¥ | MAN # SCORE of FLIGHTS /“ OVER 2G0D MILES LONG e CALCUTTA - -v multary brains ot the world , : Ke ao x ey NEW YORK cruising radius of the 4 ’ +3 re ‘ me Lig J K; oday, a fii Seattle to Tokio—5000° > . : : and be able to way inthe air 72 hours, ns Ls > a Se 5 : Flights. - Ten Famous Distance OR New York-Germany, 3905 miles,. o 1—De Pinedo, four-continent flight, 28,000 miles, ; _ 2—Smith-Nelscn round-the-world, 27,500 miles. 7—Lindbergh, New Yor Pans, 3610 miles, @ ‘is 3—Pelletrer-d’Oisy, Pans-Japan, | 1,800 miles. v 8&—Costes-Rignot, Paris-Persia, 3313 miles. wemnemmn 4—Norge, Rome-North Pole-Alaska, 8000 miles. 11111 9—NC-, Newfoundland-London, 4514 miles. " mememee 5-ZR3 (Los Angeles) Germany-New York, 5000 miles. kak kX 10—Maughan, New York-San Francisco, 2540 miles, \, Nelson were the two pilots who finished in the In May, 1910, Glenn Curtiss covered 145 ships they started, Wade being given a new miles, New York to Albany, plane for the last stages of the flight. : In July of the same year, Labouchere raised In the crossing of the Atlantic on non-stop the to 211 miles in a trip around Rheims, flights, the flights that failed resulted in several By August, the distance was 485 miles, Ip tragedies. Hawker and Grieve’s pioneer voyage © October, Wellman flew his dirigible 1000 miles came down in mid-ocean, but the two dauntless out to sea, when it came down. airmen were picked up by a freighter. Earlier, For heavier than air machines, the 11 1, Lake- . ae Ee Aas eine 5.066 .1916—LZ-104, Germany to Sudan, Africa, POU... ee eeeeeeees cesses 4,400 there is now on record one 5000-mile fight. cat Gio ae ~ ing, repairs, and bad weather, have made numerous records over the 5000- mile mark. as the list helow shows: Year >Miles 1926-7—De inedv, four-Continent flight ‘two Piso minadinctie a wianicas, ORO —_ * Army _round- as NOIR a6 005s nae.c'b koe dais stce ce 1926—De Pinedo, Italy to China and return. . 20,000 1927—Dargue-. round South America... 18,500 1927—Van Lear Blac, Amsterdam to Batavia me 1926—Cobham, London to Cape Town, Africa, ne 1926=-Pelletier-D'Oisy, Fr i of course, there was Wellman’s attempt in a distance was not reached until 191 semi-rigid dirigible, which came down 1000 — waod flew from St. Louis to New York miles off the American coast. cago and Cleveland, 1266 miles. In the attempts of the last year, Nungesser The first transcontinental flight, made ~ and Coli sacrificed their lives, the Fonck giant P, 18, took 7 Sikorsky plane went up in smoke, Commander cember 10, 1911, i Noel Davis’ plane crashed in a bog. was sly three og and ten minutes, Of the three NC planes which set out under In 191; Read for the first crossing of the Atlantic, onl; one was able to finish the journey, and tHe navy's PN-10 flight from Philadelphia navy yao for iF ee Fu i eg & &¥p i : = iE F : \ ii § i the Panama Canal ended in disaster f si ay se eeccceseeeees On th id South America good will flight, : 910th London Aussi, two ofthe plane ‘athed, ling two of he © Set Pon Lond 6500 ts. mman . iS 1926 Spain to oth pee 6,230 on able sua bee life tes paraehute Cactt 2 Army, New "York is.” Nowe, th . Pp. The lighter than air machines have had an { { \ = a Hy he list of failure fi Until the 3 } ee ee te of tc a oncxloce ge, came ato Pais became, atv, aad Kelly and Following this comes the most amazing list of all— use, America’s experience with the dirigibles was hop, and Maughan repeated the feat in his the non-stop airplane flights which have passed the 2000¢ unusually disastrous. ee famous “dawn to dusk” hop. These two fii mile mark: ; as Most unfortunate of all the tragedies, how- both over 2500 miles, marked the dawe of the { Year Miles ever, was the wreck of the Shenandoah in a golden age of flying. eee 1927—Chamberlin-Levine, New York to Gere severe storm, : "The Biggest: problem which faces Bring. now 1937 Landen” Nog "Yoik Baas ’'**. 32%8 oe Com awa fag cach coved tion tte degarnof fauepin epee te ik of 1927—<Byrd, New York to VerSur-Mer” tod came down after 1992 miles; and. the Aleock-Brown Clarence Chamberlin , e airships and planes. From every failure the Those three flights almost ended im disaster. ight. from: Ireland to Newfoundland, which recorded 1960 1, isis that failed, reports gape ropowagce Bo fied Chasberin been, able fog, Omk. no Commander '_, Even Pinedo, whose fying distance was the longest off cv ieunem of then tet Bain, Vi. aris to Baar,’ Meope: Brads 13nd fight one he Nowh Peja ot a secre Seen reece ‘ie Wat tie it 5 nie wth ba eb - "we cerccevccesccsesvcve e flighty-—an imposing 5000 mil ee Ad lane las! ve al, New Vek ene awe it et oo Tea bs a sient Sag Pe a POT ce ae ge a Brake generat ae : : 2.516 SauhenO Ge etek of tetera alae Of the four. fit lanes which set cious foot was counted, too, abd it was ec ela. Met for # probable that 5 ne Pe Lo ag sg hn yen mm og: ge Shae diet Alea cee ape Martin's able these Bim osed te Exth diet phd ae f ° % 4 ¥ or 8 ’ rot | romuatic story of avilign the sory of famed by a'ship f te North Allie: Suih'and in alse bee ac ee ch ‘to the const and land ia water rN