Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1924, Page 39

. WORLD FLYERS ON OLD VIKING ROUTE Iceland and Greenland Mark i Dangerous Last Lap for Aviators. I o The American aviators encircling the globe have wiped the oil from their goggles and fastened their hel- mets for a spectacular dash across the North Atlantic via Iceland, Green- land and Labrador. Covering ap- proximately 20,000 miles in 250 hours’ fiying time, the six airmen who have carrfed the Stars and Stripes through 18 countries since leaving Seattle, Wash,, in April, are impatient to return to the home of the golden eugle, which is likewise the home of fried chicken and ham and eggs, sans ale blubber. Next to the Pacific flight, this op” agross the Atlantic over the ome of the Icelanders and Eskimos is conceded to be the most dangerous portion of the whole journey. Popular Interext Great. Great popular interest is being <hown in this Atlantic flight. For the first time in history will aircraft have flown from England, or any other country, to Iceland and Green- land, and the flights to these countries will in themselves be history-making events of no less im- portance than the daring cruises of the Vikings who tacked and paddled their craft across those waters. A change in the alr route has been decided upon which omits the Faroe Islands. But as they wing northward the flyers will swing in toward these islands after leaving Kirkwall in the Orkney that if any motors . missing @ landing can be 4 made. But if everything is going well. the flight will proceed straight on toward Jeeland, 570 miles away. This change in the route is on experience guined during the fl thus far, it 7 learned that a contin- of this distance is not to ma with over hours of day w existing in the northern regious, the margin of safety is wide Another change also may be made ¥ the flight commander, Lieut Lowell Smith, after the planes get near Iceland, and, instead of landing at the town of lofn-Hornafjord, they will press on to the ital, Revkjaviki, where a minor ba been established by Lieut Crumrine, who left the United a month ago for this purpose. Revkjaviki, 2,800 gallons of of the high-test quality and 300 gal- lons of airplane oil are stored. await- ing the arrival of the flyers. o rapidly has the world flight pro- ed since crossing the Pacific an in May, that the offic charge of supplies have been swept oft their feet and it will require great speed now to get oil and gas proper- 1y placed in Greenland and Labrador before the flight arrives. Washing- ton has directed the flvers not to leave England until about August 1, and to take their leisure in changing the wheel-landing gear to the pon- toons, and also rest awhile before starting across the Atlantic, but on this world flight, the flyers are very much “on their own" and Lieut Smith and his comrades may decidc to go on to Iceland when they get ready and “explain” it afterward. Reports Are Cryptic. To have attempted to run the flight from Washington would have been fatal because no one except those ac- tually ht could possibly know the best steps to take under the unusual circumstances met on such a pioneer flight. Neither have long and detailed reports been re- quired by the Washington office. And, if the flyers had been required to give the details of all th: pened along the way, th still be somewhere in Asla writing up treatises and trying to mail back. A great many people have besiege” | the _Air Service Washington for reports on every- thing that has happened on the flight; they want most little personal incidents as well as big ones, and _some people even ask officiais to write up detailed authentic stories of the flight. The messages that have come in from Lieut. Smith have been of a very cryptic nature. Nobody except an aviator could terpret some of the cablegrams, and it has not always been easy for fly- ers to know exactly what was meant. headquarters _ut them The cablegrams have contained but :wo things, the time of departure irom one stop and time of arrival at another, but occasionally an extra word o two will be added, ‘Nelson's ~cylinder came in _tacked {rom the heart of Indi Northern Japanese shorted, It has been the custom when offi- cials of one country visit another for :eremonies to take place, but on this flikht around the world the Ameri- :ans, with typical persevergnce, have kept an eye out for but one thing— get to the next stop. They have steered as clear as possibie from ceremonies and receptions, but, of course, it was impossible to stay en- tirely clear. No Evening Sults. No evening suits or spic white uni- forms were carried by the aviators across the ice-swept Pacific for use in the tropics, and this led them into difficulties at Saigon, the “Paris of the Orient.” Here 'the air-weary aviators, dressed in their flying sults, applied to a fashionable hotel for lodging and rations. The hotel clerk scanned the newcomers with a criti- cal fish “And may I awsk who you “'We are the aviators flying around the world.” “What world?" “Hur?" ‘0 you have dinner clothes?" ope. “We are unable to accommodate you." How different would this have been in the United States! What hotel fn the whole of North America “would have turned down these aviators because they wore fly- ing xuits that perhaps showed stains of airplane oil? American women would have been proud to have their finest wilken gowns soiled by contact with those flying suits and white shirt bosoms stained by an oily hand of one of the world fivers would be preserved as a souvenir. What hotel in the United States would not be proud to come these aviators in any garb whatsoever and the man- ager personally take the register to t rooms for signatures? No hotel episodes like this will take place along the stops across the At- lantic. Nothing will be spared by the fnhabitants to make the aviators a: THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 3I, 1924 comfortable as possible. The brief rest in England was much needed, for the dash through Asia and Europe in such record-breaking time was a @great strain upon the physique of the fiyers. Good Weather Expected. They passed from the ice-bound Aleutian Islands to the cherry blos- som valleys of Japan, thence to the steaming shores of China within a few days. And, with scarcely a pause the aviators pushed on into Burma, ped over the burn: thence to the cool 1y flight officially start from this west- eromst portion of the United States’ possession in North America, the Is- land of Attu. 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Ave. Public Library tion of the fiyers is%etter than it was during the tropical potrion of the route and this will enable a little more energetic work, if that be pos- sible, Lieut. Smith, by a strange trick of Fate, fell down in Caloutta and cacked a rib, after successfully flying the hazardous route acoss the storm awept Pacific But has re- mained with his plane. ‘Won His 8 Lieut. Leslie P. Arnold, who is in the plane with Smith is fully as good a pilot as Smith. Lieut. Arnold Is frequently spoken of as “Smith's mechanician,” but he was one of the alternate pilots chosen for his un- leave Seattle, Sergt. Turner was dis- qualified for physical reasons and no time was left to get another passport and Arnold’s passport was already on hand, so went in Smith's plane instead of Turner. 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