Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1927, Page 5

t other flyers who disap; Y — WOOD AND SCHILLE PREPARED FOR HOP “Royal Windsor” Given Final Inspection Before Start of London Flight. v Ry the Asso WINDSOR, Or Med Press ) Royal Windso; Datroiter &pection by and groomed rect they I flight whic border to Only repor weather would pr today, Wood declared Virtvally tl ldward RBrock Croydon same route E wda to Harber ¢ found n over t to the Iri 1 d Schles lons of eas of pro: fuel wi 'Schlee and Brock Find Everything Is Free in London By the Associated Prese, LONDO Neither penny Lon August 29, Brock nor Schlee spent a their 22-he 1tomobi during don. in were I nds, and a new vacuum and a few other necessary they requested were all willing admirers, their asked Hotel at this been and they Ly the ship s could make out nothing cither wn we learned that this Although the inh nake out lifted and huddled neav ts the country mbled Ireland, but we also saw an castle and fizured it might b Remembering Lind \ttempt to com fishing boats uting to them had cessful. we hit upc On leaving Newfoundland we taken two thermos 1| one il water and th: wit a bag contain itants length the nall villag, the sea. In some had 2| sandwiches and a few lapsible rub . born wdian ¥ vears old and served ploved by ernment in the service. He has C flviy Both Wood & they will re: enthusiastic ment of the s ¢ Brock a SCHLEE CALLS HOP OVER OCEAN BETTER THAN FILM THRILLER nued from First Page.) seemed to draw right into this n- bow. until at length the rainbow a peared 1o be Wrapped about the plane’s nose. It was the most beauti- ful phenomenon I ever witnessed. Wind Increases Steadily “Our prospects at nightfall were not reassuring. The wind velocity seem- ed to be increasing steadily and the | sea below us was whipped into a swirling mass of huge combers, which when we dropped down near them | seemed of mountainous proportions. in clouds, too, were gathering even more thickly than before, and the darkness intensified their threat- ening aspect. It is difficult to describe one’s feelings under such conditions £ two of S Sus air in ue frail cra rac y the mercy of the elements and constantly on the a rt to detect the slightest @iz of engine fajlu “Such a f: guch a sea, . however slight, in C ould have meant but one thing—death. 1 couldn't help think- ing of Nungesser and Coli and won- dering if perhaps they had not en- countered just such weather as thi Then I thought of Miss Doran and the | red in the| Pacific on the recent flights for Ha- waii. But once again the weather showed signs of clearing and, in fdtt, rifts ppeered in the clouds, permitting t About ssed a biz steamer, the second that we had seen since leaving Newfoundland. The first was a small which we encountered just off Newfoundiand. This second ship was obviously a passenger liner, but we were far above her and did not even hother to alter our course to examine her more closely. stea m,shn- Sea Runs High, . Over a phosphorescent sea the| wind was still blowing strong from | the northw although it w zinning to show signs of chang again. Through the cloud rifts w could look down upon the sea, which still ran h Sometimes we the sen covered with phosphorescent, through whi billows gave a curious effec swirlin, sprav seemed to sprinkle the se surface with tiny _phosphorescent lights like a thousand minute spafks struck from it anvil. Toward the wind again changed. swinging to the southw and once mor turn for the was no l t appeared that the nearer we got to the Irish coast the more the sea r: and the more violent the v ame. n we gaw our T blocked with storm cloud: hich in the darkness as- sum ts of weird shapes. About this time it became neces- to empty the contents of some of the aluminum the main fuel tanks, zed a can when ship nose upward first . that <pin : machin n aititude thermometer 9,000 fect the there freczing on the wi turned the plane dow ymipelied through the > we had mapped ou last 1 hours worst. It sec adrplane could 1 kept th ldren in De were doir wife and tw dering what th figured out wh at that moment, conclusicn that they were doing 1 was doing—pravin The first real proof we had that we were actually near - glimpse of Fastnet 1 through the fog about he morning. We didn't knc timo just what place # was o come dvwn clo the 1he hope that we ild be able our bearings. E wa to seo anything for th tear of striking somethin 1o climb again. Cruise Ab For nearly we cruised about, 1 ome landmark. 0 we out what seemed 10 a good-sized harbor below us. with a passenger ship creeping out o se ground to et e Hours ars thereaftey nt for Ti three h; trying 4,000 | This tir o Bl 5| Old Orchard to fuel cans 1 to pick up wade | of t i Brock had eaten noth i country oth fr the } watched it fall | . but no one es Second Note. avound over the wh lc 1 wrote e 1 place weighed nd threw town | which 1 down with it over. The f the oranze attracted ie second note. The natives and wrote the name of the town, Seaford. Devon, on an asphalt | street, writing with chalk in large i . At the same time they hoisted | the Union Jack on a flagpole. | While we had at - difficulty i making out the name of the town, we could tell from what we saw that evi dently it was an English name, and | the sight of the British flag convinced | us that we were over England. | We flew on, still trying to get bet- ter bearings, but without success. At |last we saw a railvoad with a train | approaching. so we raced alongside |the train and made out the name | Great Western on the locomotive, but | while this served as a further proof | that we were in England. it didn't | help much toward getting ourselves | oriented. Finally we came to Daw- | lisp and were able to make out the | name on a railread station and find | our position on a map. The rest was | easy. We headed for London and {had no difficulty whatsoever in find- ing Croydon. It felt mighty good to put my feet on good old British terra | nd we certainly ! | fine recep: | Brock “Tickled to Death.” Brock wu tickled to death ‘“lwll we were finally able to locate | ourselves on the map. The first thing | he said to me was “Well, we crossed it.” then he ate the first food he | haa taken since we Iflft Newfound- land. He ate half of one sandwich { and tossed the rest away, He was tired out when we res London, and no wonder. It was a | nerve-racking job trying to hold that | plane on her course in such weather | as we encountered. I relieved him a few ‘l\t—en flying only since A at least, that was ever had a sti piloted the plane hed | times—I've | gust 10— the first time I in my hand. But I all the way from Harbor-Grace. As | soon as we got into the air Broc turned the plane over to me. We hit | Harbor-Grace right on the nose and were not off our course over a point This world trip did not occur to me until June. Then while flying | with some friends who were di sing Lindbergh's great feat. { ould like to go around the world in a plane. My friends laughed: so | T determined to prove to them that | it could he done. Iam confident that it will be only a matter of a few | _until we have regular tran: service, not in one or two | years perhaps, but five or ten. i Just at present the United States is suffering from reaction of the lo of lives on the Dole flight. I think it was a great mistake to permit Miss Doran. in fact, any girl, to take L in such a flight. It stands to | reas t when a girl is aboard a plane if anything happens, a man is turally oin look after her To do 1 s often neces- | t important But the principal lesson to be learned from the unh endings of | s is the need of govern- mental regulation of such attempts in the future. More than one of the planes that started in that race was not it to take part in such a com- petition and should never have been permitted to T hope we shall soon have les was | | fiights impossibl 1 States vi the B Empire by | Times Company All hts Bulhs R°port°d THE Powhatan Hotel Penn.Ave.-18 6 H Sts. DI\\P \U“'H( impossible and the | caused us | 6309 ‘Room | JOHN SLAUGHT | Orchestra {RST SIGHT OF LAND BEST PART OF OCEAN ce ships on som bird, but scen ever looked back this mist That time stay wate how The A on the level. Al eaqne <teamer to 1 wou W of 1 of from; west haps would heip h Ty KVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. MONDAY. Iua\]\v.l our laps until we were very |'a handkerchlef and let fiy. He saw ! | uncomforiab For the first five a small boy pick it up and other people hours or So— vemember the | gather around. Pretty soon they | exaiet time—we flew very low, not |started by a lifesaving station, writ { more than 100 to 500 feet above the |ing chalk on a black sidewalk. water. When the storm came we | British Flag Run Up. st d to climb. 1 remember once we e ni e e | 1t lookea like Sefton, or something | climbed quick and high to see if we | couldn’t get out of the wind that was | like that—Sefton. Devon, but what | us sure of where we were was knocking us all over the lot. We got | made had left we saw fust | up 10,000 feet. It got cold and I [a British flag run up on a mast. which we knew was at the thermometer. It was 29, | wded inland body asive. wobody living till ‘ came down low e N the Leach on the HoUN G Wb station and saw its Pere Wk Cmover s T was afraid of ice forming on the | then figured out (¢ winegs and bringing us down fast, so there was plenty of tion. . 1 an I dived (1l T sw water. We skated | but saw one with lots of pecple, so ons looking down at the whitecaps. | we knew we were in | Thes looked awfully damp and cold. When | brought the plane down. 1 You can’t say much about a six-|felt kind of weak, 1 turned tc hour flight to keep a plane headed | Schiee, shook hands and said, “Well. th siraight through a s You just | we ar He said, “We suve through, Bill was eating sand e, | most of the time, it seemed round . them usually, | 0 me. He was urging me to eat, too, We stuck our nose inte|and I didn’t want anything. - He took | 1 then it disappeared in | the controls quite a few times. and was busy emptving the extra tins of into the main tank. There plenty to de shit of the trip was 1t of land. We did see a ship it didn’t mean much Lefore dawn, we saw the Lizht, but the most interest- coming landward. W black clouds just be hout <o ne what it off its | felt like. 1 S in a clond Out we came | side in clear dawn with | | | | FLIGHT, SAYS BROCK | (Continued from First 0.) After we looke over a name, ery cannot tell what the receding America looked like becau AL first we wer rainhow, av que always | KO swever much | Wiches (Copyri Tnige in adn. - Mexic i \th Ame ¥ Empire York All vights rese 'PARK BOARD TO HEAR POWER PLAN PLE? Col. Grant Says Potomac River Cox poration Will Be Permitted to Reply to Objections. som 10l wis took our attention for Len we were pretty busy. We | ted right away checking our drift hi our instruments and se the compasses were working | re was a lot of work ther and my | the earth Fastnet 1s the machine swung It was impossibie to keep it |1 1 could do wa e other land ahead. 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