PLUCKY EFFORT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 16, 20 January 1928, Page 7

PLUCKY EFFORT

ENDURANCE PLIGHT smith up ova** so Horns (flerieived 20th January, 10 »dSi.) fIAK SiJAJfOtSCO, i§th Jan. The attempt at the endurance flight record by Captaih Mnggftt»d Mm wa Lieut. Pond <iiid«d tb-aiy, whin M iO.IS a.m. theilr atoptoai «'¥hs fejllMt 6* CWttAAU," WiS ttMnpell*! bj* «*hati«tion »f jMtMi to iUttH klm being slightly a*** M hears in the air. At daylight SttitH tfifllMMd tnttt the petrol wa* Hin*i«| lew, a«a at SilS *.M., wttk the %lah« elwliilg fire* Mills yield at aft of SS6O feet, with the three mei6ri t^ibttM down to the limit, Smith a«ni6ttAe«d that hi* i"eßervo tank hpia only «ildngh petrol to last half an hour. iteatisling thfe iitfetitabilit? of *ailUre daHag the last fa* hoar* dh6 to the fihoftafee 6f pfetfoi, Smith and Pond struggled desperately to edflgette their fttfel. they retoiiiied in th« air abCve Mills ridld uitti' thfe «iß«iencf tdflks >e« Amhfii, Mi th*Ju landed chilled aJid (jxiiaUSted, Both had td b'§ lifted fMm the 'piaite. gmith Said! ''We shall b« read* t6 ttjt again aftei 1 several days' Hit. it the temperature gives Us at eVea break, ws'll eeffle dewa with the ?*- ---cord."