Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1924, Page 24

WORLD FLIGHT PROGRESS By First Lieut. R. J. Brown, jr., Chaitman World Flight Committee. The arrival States Army of the three United air fiyers at Caleutta on June marks a significant achievement in the annals of avia- tion. More than 12,000 miles of the journey around the world have now been completed—only 10,000 miles remain to be covered by the flight before the continent of North Amer- has been reached. The Amer- airmen have proved that air- can be operated. in all the s of the globe—by success- flying across the Pacific Ocean. encounterings the gales, snowstorm and freezing temperature of the near and by successfully traversing China Sea, with its vrential rains and by through the equ of French Indo-China, urma, along the shores of ica During the stops of the successfully expedit third division have been flown by the American At Rungoon difficulties were encountered which threatened to delay the expedition. The flight sommander, Licut. Lowell H. Smit en ‘suddenly 111, but in a da in sufficiently rccovered to continue with his work. The air sruiser New Orleans, piloted by Lieut ik H. Nelson, was rammed while wnchior by @ native sampan, dam- ing two of h wings. At first it as thought that it would be nece: gary to send wings which were at ?‘ah tta to repair this ship, but the nuity of the officers of the flight mide this unnecessary and the dam- 1:. was successfully repaired in two fivs and the New Orleans wa [hhlnhrd on the h. After the nited States destroyer Sicard had r hed the mouth of the Bassien River. at which poi it was decided w0 cstablish an emergency refueling base, the flizht took off for Akyab, 455 miles by way of Bassien Trouble Getting Of. « siderable difficulty has been ex- perienced by the tlight in getting the Dlanes off the water with their full gas cupacity. This is attributable to | 4ir is light and hot and motors will averheat very rapidly Secondly, at Suigon. Bangkok Burma Planes have landed in the fresh af @ river, and strange as it seem, this makes a great deal fere in the rapidity with Which thé planes can rise from the water, sir pontoons being less buoyant in water than in sait water. Third to water akag E being partially ¥ night for more tha the pontoons weigh from 3 pounds more than when entire at it has b practic ssity to e ergency n main stops, in e fucling bases betwe the last portion of the third div The flight arrived at Aky g roon, after n. A Mclaren, t0” continue the world. AKyab is a se: the capital of th i the provinee oi saw taken Althouzh become a flour- . ut which time | i as the port the province. It now. pulation of about 40,000. § situated on an island at the estuary or e rivers. on ‘ow lying § is unhealthful, subject to al epidemics of cholera and fever demi The rain very heavy. with an _annual of over two hundred During the southwest mon- whole country becomes in- d the rivers swollen. Journey to Calcutta. over night in the fiyers proceeded to Cal~ 400 miles by following the coast- topping to refuel at Chittagong th. The town of Chittagong, known as lslamabad, is one of t picturesque in the plains The town, extending over { more than four and a half quare miles, is a collection of small illages, interspersed with paddy clds and small hills. Chittagong is the terminal of the Assam-Bengal railway. It is not only the principal “civilian station in the district, but also the administration headquarters of the district of the same name. After leaving Chittagong the flight had to cross one of the most impenetra- ble and forbidding jungle swamps in the gorld, the delta of the Ganges, known s the Sundarbans, extending for 170 E.m, ong th . with a depth of rom sixty to g very remaining The Sundar- . but There are no are now spar sett lages, and ithern Bengal, over which in_crossing over the re of the low- est cas . #ood-natured people. The av > size of the native-owned arm is about ten acres. His greatest mbition fundar in life is to own Some cows nd an umbrella. They are, on the whole, & simple people. bound by caste, re- Yizion and tradition. Bengal is the great labor mart of India. The forests con- tain valuable timber, especially Chitta- In the first place, the | a the inhabitants | 1in xmall hamlets. The na- | ong wood, or Indian mahogany nd bamboos are luxuriant and ferns and orchids grow everywhere. The vege- ation ie that of a moist, tropical cli- nate. Tigers, black and clouded leopards re found; also some bears and elephants, in addition to numerous pecies of the smaller mammals. Birds nd reptiles are numerous. All the sea Bnakes are venomous. The land snakes fre the great hamadryvad, the Indian ython, the green ttlesnakes and Pobras. i The flight landed at Newabanj, near chepore, about fifteen miles north of “alcutta. Arrangements had been cem- Visit Today pleted by First Lieut. Henry H. Halver- son, advance oflicer of the 4th Division of the route. The seaplanes, after land- ing in the river, will be hoisted from the water and after the pontoons have been removed and the landing gear with wheels attached will be towed on their own wheels, by motor truck, to the Dum Dum airdrome, at which point they will receive such repairs and replacements as will be found necessary. Calcutta is the main filght supply and repair base of southern Asia. The planes will be equipped with new motors and wings, and will be trans- formed from seaplanes to land planes. The wings of the plenes, when they reach Calcutta, were be- ginning a rapid deterioration, due to the effect of salt air and extreme heat, in_addition to the severe buf- feting of wind and sea since leaving the United States three months ago. At Calcutta, the flight will be re- juvenated and the officers of the ex- pedition face the remaining 13,000 miles of their journey with practi- cally new airplanes. From Calcutta to London, the flight will be made with the world cruisers as land planes. They will be capable of a greater speed and a Rreater fuel capacity and faster progress will be made over this portion of the route | than has heretofore been possible by the flight. Present plans contemplate the arrival of the flight in England not later than the 25th of July. Welcomed by Oficialx, At Caleutta the fiight comed by the officials of the British- Indian government, Mr. Waddell, the American consul general, the officers of the British royal air force and Lieut. Maleolm S. Lawton, the ad- vance officer for the third division, who was responsible for the preparations made for the flight throughout the third division, from Shanghai to Cal- cutta, and in addition, responsible for the safety the flight throughout was wel- of | that portion of the rout.. Calcutta s 3 the capital principal city of Brit| the east and the 1 h India. It is situated on bank of the Hugli River, one of the mouths of the Ganges, almost eighty miles from The city is the terminus of = principal Indian railway system. s also a great seaport. though gation is hindered by the sh sand banks of the river. Cal- British reign has be- thoroughly modern munici- blic utilities. is practically divided in of a European and a The former lies east or Great Park, and is n in appearance. new Fort William, the seat of the British-Indian government, tarted by Clive in 1757 and complet- d in 17 Iso stands in the Maidan. The native city has some fine streets and several magnificent palaces of potentates. The commercial part of the city contains most of the government and other public build- ings. Calcutta a population of about 1,500,000. This is due to its lo- cation as a mnatural outlet of the and the Brahmaputra Valleys. s an enormous trade and until ntury was the Indix. Now unt’ of its excellent larger foreign trade quarter. - Maidan, entirely The In the to by 13.000 miles which are still flown before the flight has b, ssfully completed, it is doul if any more severe, or difficult onditions of weather will be countered than that which have ready been passed through. The mon- of India will be their most for- ble obstacle after leaving Cal- cutta, but the experiences of the flight through Burma, give every in- dication that the airmen will success- fully combat the stormp and high winds of this season in the same man- ner in which they have negotiated the dangers through which they have already passed. The term “monsoon” was originally brought to England from the East Indies by Portuguese traders, in Elizabethan times, but accounts of the word were chronicled by Pliny and Aristotle, as well as by the Arab historian, Sidi All, in 1654." The, word “monsoon’’ is from the Arabic ‘‘man- sim,” meaning season, and is gen- erally used for any period in which a wind blows regularly from a fixed direction, but it is also applied to those winds which blow from the indlan Ocean from Austrisia to India. From April to October they blow from the southwest and are laden with moisture. From Ocober until April they blow from the northeast and are considered dry winds. Their regularity is caused by the change of the seasons. During the win.er the cold air from the interior of Asia blows outward toward the warm sea. In the summer when the land, on the contrary, becomes more heated than the sea, the dtrection of the air current changes and it flows in a northeasterly direction. Thé sum- mer monsoon in India is generaily accompanied by violent thunder- storms and torrential rains. ‘The prosperity of the interior of India depends upon the regularity of the summer monsoon, and occasionally the monsoon fails to bring the ex- pected rains and the result is famine. Such a famine occurred in 1895 and again in 1 Sandstorm of Persia. After leaving India the shamal, or sandstorms of Persia will be encoun- tered by the fliers from Karachi to Bagdad, along the Southern coast of Persia bordering on the Gulf of Oman and the Perstz™ Gulf. During these storms, fine particles of sand are carried thousands of feet in the air, making it extremely hot and dificult to see. These storms occur at the same time as the summer monsoon in India. The changing of motors and wings and making the minor repairs which are necessary, will consume the bet- ter part of a week. The fliers should be prepared to start on the 6.000-mile Journe between Calcutta and Eng- d about July 2 The route from Calcutta goes northward up the Val- ley of the ges to Allahabad, a distance of 4 miles. The first eighty miles of this journey will be over the paddy fields and the semi- inundated area of the lowlands. Then the ground will begin to rise grad- ually and the flight will pass over the great agricultural plain of India. The word Allahabad means, “The abode of God." It is an ancient city, the capital of a district of the same name. The native town co s largely of mudhouses, but the Eng- lish suburb of Canningtown presents a more Furopean aspect. Allahabud s one of the chief resorts of the Hindu pilgrims, who come partly visit the sacred cave in the C Satum “Temple, whence, it is said. there is a subterranean passage to Benares, a distance of Seventy-two miles, but chiefly to wash away their sins by bathing in the waters of the sacred rivers of the Ganges and the Jumna at their junction. From Allahabad, the flight passes northward to Ambala, in northern India, the scene of the treaty be- tween the governor general of India, Lord Mayo, and the Emir Shere Ali of Afghanistar, in 1869, When this point has been reached, the flyers will have passed through the dangers incident to the storms of the monsoon period and will be well on their way to Kurope on the easiest portion of their journey. They will be relieved of much of their work and worry, which had at- tended their tedious progress from Seattle to Calcutta. 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