Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1927, Page 4

GRACE IS SMASHED; 2D HOP UNCERTAIN Movie Flyer Uninjured, but Heartbroken After Bad k| Fall in Hawaii. Br the Associated Press MANA, Island of Kauai, Hawaii July 5.—The twisted ruins of an air- a broken-hearted aviator plane, spointed field staff were ined today of the 1t project of Richard wood stunt flyer, who ci here vesterday shortly r taking off for a hop alone to California. The jinx which has haunted Grace practicilly_since he plans for the flight permitted bim to come out of it unhur t the plane was badly damaged. attempt to salv: other attempt mined e stunt flyer took off at 5:24 am vesterday in his third attempt to head for the mainland. While still near the take-off point and before he had headed his plane directly westward, the tail of the monoplane was seen to flutter. Grace headed it back toward the beach runway and it noged earth: at an alarming speed. Keeps in Control. Survivor of 24 other air crashes, Grace managed to hold the monoplane under control after a fashion, but it struck bushes on the edge of the field. The fuselage 2nd one wing were smashed. but the stunt flyer crawled oft of the wreckage unhurt. He had been in the air 51 minutes. No official ex nation of the cause of the trouble was forthcoming, but it was believed the take-off over the rough sands had so shaken the heavily loaded plane that its rudder was weakened. The plane carried 322 gal- lons of gasoline and weighed more than 4,000 pounds. Although materials have been or- dered for rebuilding the plane, it was not made known whether the task would be undertaken here. Grace and his mechanism were said to be consid- ering returning to Honolulu tomorrow. g Since 16 Years Old. been flying since he v He now In pro- \'.il‘l g thrills for the movies he has Wrecked 16 airplanes in as many de- liberate crashes. The eight other smash-ups were accidental. Only one of these was serious. He sustained a broken vertebra in one and earned the name of “the broken-necked flyer.” In the transoceanic jump he was backed by Maj. Grant Dolge of Los Angeles. Grace was one of the first to start preliminaries for the flight between Hawail and California. He arrived in Honolulu June 24 and encountered trouble in various forms almost from the outset. First he failed to get the right sort of propeller and had to await one from Los Angeles. Then dissention broke out among his as- sistants and caused naval officers who had been helping him to quit the field. Sunday he tried twice to take off, but was balked each time by a puncture in the tire of a wheel on the landing gear. . 36 GALLONS PER HOUR IS GAS RATE T0 HAWAII 0il Consumption on Maitland Hop Small, Semi-Official Figures Shows. and has not been deter By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, July 5.—The Fokker monoplane in which the Army avia- tors Lester Maitland and Albert Hegenberger flew from Oakland, Calif., to Hawaii last week, used ap- proximately 36 gallons of gasoline hourly in its flight, according to semi- official figures made available today. This was an average of 12 gallon to each of the three motors. About 200 gallons of gasoline re- mained in the tanks at the end of the The consumption of oil was small, totaling slightly less than seven gal- lons for the entire trip. The speed made by the monoplane approximated 115 miles an hour for the 2,400 miles. Messag e in Pouch Carried by Byrd Will Goto Museum By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 5—A message sent by Mayor Walker of New York in the mail pouch brought across the Atlantic in Comdr. Byrd's plane America is to be deposited in the Carnavalet Museum, in which are kept relics connected with the his- tory of Paris and the French revo- lution. This was_announced by Louls Delsol, president of the Municipal Council of Paris, after he read the > | By Cable to The | ing |it jthat T had to land with a land plane Alighting in Sea With Ground Plane Is Novel Duty for Pilot. Norwegian Looks Forward to Accompanying Byrd on South Pole Hop. T. BERNT BALCHEN. and the New York Times If it had not been temporary BY LI PARIS, J for the to, tion of our compa been nothing to it. We had a good plane. Our motors never gave us any trouble. Not once during the whole flight did 1 have to wl out on the wings to wipe the ne. That, besides relieving Acos- ta, to have been part of my job when Comdr. Byrd kindly asked me to #o hlong. But those engines needed no wip- nor f They would have landed us r s it the fog had not interfered. During the last part of the trip I piloted the plane. It was up to me to find Le Bourget or some other plice to land. For the kind of landing we made T take full responsibility. I believe was a_good landing, considering at sea, something which is not ordi- narily done. Land Landing Tmpossible. Why did we not land on land? Every one is asking that question. 1t could not be done. When you are flying you can not attempt to land before you are sure of what is under you. In that fog I could not be sure of anything. People seem to be surprised that 1 did not see the Eiffel Tower. No I did not see it, and I was mighty d that I didn’t see it. I should not ve liked to shake hands with the P‘un‘ol Tower before knowing it was ther: Everybody is talking about it hav- ing heen a thrilling flight. I am not accustomed to writing articles. I am a Norwegian with only my first citi- zenship papers and as yet I cannot express myself well in English, But the truth is that 1 do not get that “thrilled” stuff of the people who talk about flying. I never get any “thrills” out of flying. It is no different to me from driving a motor car, except that personally 1 prefer flying. I think it is safer. Tired of Fog. So far as this flight across the ocean is concerned, it was one of the dullest and most monotonous I have ever been on. Fog, fog, fog. You could not see anything. I got tired of it. Anyway it is wrong for people to get into their heads the idea that flying is a circus stunt, thrilling and dangerous. What people should learn is that flving is a safe way to travel, one of the safest there is. I used to fly planes full of dyna- mite across Hudson Bay on construc- tion work for the Canadian govern- ment. I felt much safer doing it in a plane than I should have felt in a railroad car. My friends up there in the Canadian woods used to warn me that if I ever fell my plane and I would be mistaken for the Aurora Borealis, but I never had a crash. Twice I jumped from a high alti- tude with a parachute. A But I did that for fun. There was nothing wrong with the plane. I have flown mail planes, passenger and dynamite planes and my experience convinces me that flying is now here, only as dangerous as a lot of things foolish people do on earth every day of the week. Is 27 Years Old. T am only 27 years old. I cannot say what is coming‘to me in the fu- ture, and I knock wood when I say it, but, so far, I can say that the years of my life which have been the least dangerous have been my flying years. Certainly they have been much less perilous than the year I spent as a soldier in the Norwegian army, es- pecially during the way, when Nor- way did not know whether she would stay neutral or not. . On this flight across the ocean if we had had good weather the whole business would have been as simple as eating a plece of pie. There would not have been anything to talk about except that we left and arrived ac- cording to schedule, When we left New York T expected an even break with the weather. Col. Lindbergh_had it. But we did not have it. It was raining even when we started. But that was nothing; we could stand the rain, and during the first five hours, or practically un- til we reached Nova Scotia, we could not complain. I sat in the rear compartment with Comdr. Byrd, so that the plane would not be nose heavy. We had on board a big load of gasoline in cans. Until we could empty some of them the mat- ter of equilibrium was something we had to think about. Had Tools Handy. T had all my tools right handy as to be able to climb out on the wings at the first sign of motor trouble. That would not have been hard to do, because the wings had catwalks along affec- | there would have | AMERICA'S LANDING GENTLE, SAYS BALCHEN IN OWN STORY LIEUT. BERNT BALCHEN. But those three motors behaved They hummed right ing. themsel along. Between Nova Scotia and Newfound- land our weather luck changed. the rotten weather in the Atl seemed to be chasing up our w: closing us in. Comdr. Byrd told me to take the wheel, and I did. It took me about half an hour to pilot the | plane into an altitude where we would not ho bothered by banks of clouds. The only thing to do under those con- ditions was to keep the bad weather under us. But some of those cloud banks drifted as high as 3,000 feet. There was nothing dangerous about uation so0 long as there was no ity of landing. 1 was accus- tomed to that sort of flying. I saw no reason to worry. For 19 hours we flew that w: ing as high as we could al fog, mist and rain. In other words, we flew not through the bad weather during those hours, but above it. At Intervals of three or four howrs Acosta and I relieved each other. Never Felt Sleepy. We were not thinking of sleep or food. As a matter of fact, we never felt sleepy or hungry. I admit that I ate more than the oth Some French pers, which were translated for me, d that I ate a whole roast chicken. What had that to do with the flight? I ate it not because I was hungry, but because I like chicken. They put four roast chickens on board. I supposed that they were to be eaten. I ate mine. That was all re was to that. lh?l‘n\\'z\rd the last of those 19 hours over the bad weather Lieut. Noville managed to catch a message telling us that it was clear weather near the surface. We dove through a bank of clouds and ran along for 400 or 500 miles with the wind on our beam. Over Brest we saw the sunset and for an hour or so we had some decent weather. Then it grew dark and the weather grew worse, Clouds jammed in on us from every direction. Aside from clouds we had to contend with fog, which blotted the coast of France out of our sight. The greatest difficulties of flying will be solved the day some,one in- vents a light that will penetrate the clouds and let the aviator know where he is. * Compass Goes Dippy. But to add to our troubles our earth induction compass all of a sudden went dippy. I believe it was some magnetic affection outside the com- pass. We had not much gas left— enough, perhaps, for three hours. Lieut. Noville shot a message by radio to_that effect. I was at the wheel. I realized that it was I who would have to finish the flight. Now I do not believe in taking any risks. All my experience as a flyer has taught me ‘that the big point about flying is to land your plane and passengers safely. I believe in doing that every time. Any fool can erash and smash up a plane, but a good pilot should land gently. This business of calling a man a hero of the air just because he has killed himself is something I have never been able to understand. 1have no ambition to be that kind of hero. When I saw what we were up against, with fog all around us and only a few gallons of gasoline left n our tan! I thought it was time to think of landing. In my opinion there was no use trying to land at Paris if we could not see Pari ‘We dove through the clouds and cruised around at an altitude of between 1,000 and 1,500 feet. Flash of Light. It seemed to me that I caught a flash of light on our righ: wing. It wag probably the flare of the Mont Valerian Beacon. It did not repeat, and again we found ourselves flying around in the pitch dark., We might Just as well have been blindfolded for all we could see of land or ocean. From somewhere out of that dark- ness Lieut. Noville caught a message telling us that it was misty and nasty below. I should say it was. But what kind of ceiling wera we traveling over? That is what I should have liked to know. I could not tell. I could only gues: One guess I made was that there might be a lot of roofs and steeples under us. I did not like the :dea of " . THE EVENING ] the other people we might kill if we fwas a |tom T thought it w: | out. came down some place where we were not_expected, We must have been 30 miles from Paris at this time. Perhaps we were nearer or further away, or even di- rectly over it. I could mot tell any thing about it. We were crulsing around, blind. Away From Paris. TFollowing the course set by Comdr. Byrd, we headed away from Paris. A place to land was all we were after. To think of anything else when our gas was running so low would have meant running the risk of killing the whole bunch. Looking over m: that Comd Noville were exchan; conference. finally passed land on w shoulder, I could Byrd and Lieut m ages, "It omdr. Byrd e to me to 3 1s we should come to it. Our course took us to water, We could tell .that by the light from a lighthou We threw out some By the light they gave u dimly the shore line and the m of the beacon of Ver-sur-Mer. I decided that that was as good 8 ould hope to find. nd a shore rhide flares. we could eral hundred yards aw: I then had to do something T had never done before in all my experi- ence as a fiyer. I had to Jand a plane in the sea. I have landed many seaplanes in the sea, but never land planes. That was a new one on me. Stipped Down Gently. »ed down gently enough and took off speed, but the moment we hit the surface our landing g left us. With the weight of the motors the plane went nose under and tail up, and Acosta flew out the window like a shot. [ do not know what made him do it, because the landing, in_my opinion, was a gentle one. I stuck to the wheel until I felt the plane strike bottom. We were in about ten feet of water at the time. When the plane struck bot- time to crawl As a matter of fact it wa Comdr. Byrd who pulled me out by the back of my neck and told me the flight was finished He and Lieut. Noville were velling for Acosta in every direction. I was afraid 1 had lost a passenger, and was_certainly glad to see Acosta’s head come up, finally, over the other side of the plane. I did not lose any one. There seemed to be nothing wrong with my landing except that I got everybody wet. But that is to be expected if you land in the sea with a land plane. Fracture of Collarbone. Since then we have learned that Acosta had a_slight fracture of the collarbone. But he did not know that until the doctor told him. Acosta himself told me today that it was not giving him any pain at all. T am glad that things ended a: well as they did. They could have ended worse. Comdr: Byrd is in a better position than I am to discuss the scientific elements of the flight. 1 shall not even attempt it. One thing, however, I should like 'to' Transatlantic flying on a big scale, with freight and passenger carrying airplanes,. is going to come without a doubt. Just a one-way trip, however, does mnot prove much. It is necessary to make a round trip. But there is no reason to believe that flying from P o New York is impossible. Capts. Nungesser and Coli must have run into some rotten luck. That was all. Give me the plane and the time and I'll do it. Even with prevailing winds against them, aviators flying from Paris to New York could not encounter worse conditions than those which we had to meet coming from New York to Paris. 1 sli 43 Hours Gas. On the basis of a contrary wind most of the way, a trip from Paris to New York would mean enough gas to last about 43 hours. We stayed in the air about 42, and most of that time we were over bad weather. In crossing the Atlantic, of course, the question arises of whether it is better to pass two days or two nights over the water. Myself, would like to do it in two nights and one day, rather than two days and one night. Flying at night, no matter what the weather conditions, is not dangerous, so long as you have day- light in which to land. When you land, it is important to be able to see where you are landing. I am glad 1 had this experience, even though it was not very exciting. ‘What interests me now is the flight to the South Pole, which 1 hope to do with Comdr. Byrd in several months. I like to fly with Comdr. Byrd for ADOLPH KAHN President STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. TUESDAY. |INDBERGH GETS 0 WORK ON “WE" Flies to New York From Ot- tawa and Prepares to Complete Book. By the Associated Pres | NEW YORK | the tumultous rec his veturn from France, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was back in New York today to complete work on “We,” the story of his life and his flight across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis. The colonel slipped quietly into town late yesterday after landing unan- nounced in his plane at the Teterboro Airport, at Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. He had flown from Ottawa, where he had been guest of honor at the Ca- nadian jubilee celebration, in 3 hours and 10 minutes. Capt. Har July 5.—Free from tions that marks 3runo, representative of the flyer, said Lindbergh probably wou'd remain in New York for 10 days or two weeks. While the colonel works on his book, mechanics will go over the engine of his plane in prepara- | tion for the national air tour which he plans to make. LINDBERGH SENDS PEONIES. Guard Maintained at Bier of Lieut. Johnson. 5.—An honor ed men from Selfridge lent vigil today at the guard of enlis Field kept ame reason that I like to fly with Amunds like men who fl but also explorers. a Norwegian, I have the blood ilors and explorers in me. like to go where people have never been before, and I like to go by air because it is a fast and safe route to some place that is far away. (Copyright, 1927, in the United States. Canada. Mexico, Cuba, South America, Ja- n. Europe and the Hri rk Times Co, Capt. are not on Being or in part forbidden without permission. All rights reserved.) Lieut. Bernt Balchen, whose thrill- g story of the last hours of blind flight of the America through the darkness, culminating in the safe landing in the water off the French coast, is printed above, showed in this expedition his loyalty and devotion to Comdr. Byrd, who brought him here r ago from Spitzbergen after the orth Pole flight. Balchen, an excellent pilot and ‘mechanician, a prominent sportsman in his own country of Norway, where he held boxing championships and took part in ski races, went to Spitz- bergen to aid the Amundsen expedi- tion. He was attracted by Comdr. Byrd's personality, however, and helped the American North Pole fiyer whenever he had an*opportunity after his other work was done. Lieut. Balchen incurred some un- popularity among his own people as a result, and Comdr. Byrd offered to bring him to the United States. Since then, Balchen has made an unusual reputation for himself among pilots in this country as a pilot and air navigator, He handles the big Fokker planes with unusual skill, and was test pilot for Anthony Fokker for part of the past year. That skill and his calm courage probably saved.the lives of all on the America when he dropped throuch the night to the sea. INSURE Your Furniture and Property fl With J. Leo Kolb __923 N. Y. Ave. Main 5027 RY CLEANIN AT WOODRUFF'S is of the Highest Quality and it coats’ you _le Light Spring Overcoats, $1.00 ARTHUR J. SUNDLUN Treasurer DIAMONDS Other Precious Stones ¥ MEMBERS OF AMSTERDAM DIAMOND EXCHANGE fin oJnc. THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AT JULY 5. 1927.. bier of Lieut. J. Thad Johnson, Self- ridge flyer, killed at Ottawa, Satur- day, when his plane was thrown into a dive by collision with the machine of a fellow aviator. The guard consisting of two men, changing every three hours, will be maintained until the hour of the funeral tomorrow afternoon. Piles of Flowers. Great plles of floral tributes heap the room, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Adams, parents of the fiyer’s widow, where the body lies. Among them is a spray of peonies, the tribute of Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh, whom Lieut. Johnson and 11 of his fellow aviators were escorting to the Dominion capital when the crash occurred. The spray was presented to Mrs. Johnson by Lieut. Clifford Mallory. As she received it and hes lory’s expression of sorrow, X Johnson_said: I've been expecting this and your wife is expecting the same thing.” The casket had not been opened since its arrival yesterday FLYERS WOULD BREAK ENDURANCE RECORD By the Associated Pre PARIS, July 5.—Clarence D. Cham- berlin, Bert Acosta and Bernt Balchen, s the Paris edition of the New York Herald-Tribune, probably will try for a new airplane endurance rec- ord as soon as they return to the United States. It is the belief of the three flyers that the present record, made by Acosta. and_Chamberlin, of 51 hours 11 minutes 25 seconds, can be bettered by at least 10 hours by carrying 50 gallons more gasoline than when the record was made at New York in April. The airmen are convinced that this || can be done without materially alter- ing the Bellanca plane, with which the record was established. o Chow Puppy Given To Mrs. Coolidge At Summer Lodge i By the Associated Press. RAPID CITY, 8. Dak., July 5. A two-month-old chow has been added to the Summer White House menagerie. The tiny dog was pre- sented to Mrs. Coolidge by Dean Gillespie of Denver. After snug- gling the puppy, Mrs. Coolidge turned it over to the White House attendants, who already have a sub- stantial collection of pets to take care of. 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Courtney was about ready to abandon hope of re- ng it from the water until the al of trucks, which have been de- layed in transit at Pisa, Italy. The delay would have meant post- ponement of the flight for at least one week. Capt. Courtney was enthusiastic when the workmen finally succeeded in hauling the 4%-ton plane ashore by means of a submersible platform trol- ley. “She came along beautifully,” he said. Capt. Courtney declared he was con- fident the plane would take off on its 3 New York hop within the week. plans to stop at Valentia, Ireland, opsail, Newfoundland, for fuel and then continue on to New York. He will land in New York Bay off the Battery. A non-stop flight from New York to London will be made on the return. Mechanical experts will take posses- sion of the plane early tomorrow morning for the installation of compli- cated navigation instruments and a wireless direction finder. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to beach the plane before she was finally pulled ashore amid the cheers of the assembled crowd. Naval officials at the Calshot base co-operated with Capt. Courtney In the work. Dips Like Big Fish. At one time during the early part of the day in appeared as if the work- men had succeeded in their task, but just as the hull was being drawn out of the water the platform slipped from the runway and the plane dipped back into the sea like a big fish. The successful attempt was made during the evening high tide. Capt. Courtney explained that it was necessary to bring the “whale” ashore for the inst tion of the delicate in- struments because of the rough condi- tion of the water upon which it rested. After the instruments have been placed aboard Capt. Courtney intends to fly the plane for tests to establish the rate fuel consumption. (Copyright, 1927, in all countries but Great witain by orth_American Newspaper Alliance. 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