FLIGHT ROUND WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 21147, 6 July 1932, Page 7

FLIGHT ROUND WORLD

AMERICAN ATTEMPT CN RECORD Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, July 5. In an attempt to fly round the world in six days Janies Mattern, of Texas, and Bennett Griffin, of Oklahoma, hopped off at 4.1 a.jn. on Tuesday for Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. The record made by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty was 8d 15hr Slmin. HUGE GASOLINE TANKS. NEW YORK, July 5. Mattern was at one time a jazz drummer. He is twenty-seven years of age. Griffin is a former war flyer, aged thirty-six. The pilots sit 15ft apart. Huge gasoline tanks are placed between the dual controls. They communicate by notes. The airmen propose to fly via Newfoundland, Ireland, over Europe, Siberia, the North Pacific, Alaska, and Edmonton.. A storm is brewing over Scotland, but the weather generally is fair. OVER NEWFOUNDLAND. FAR OUT OF COURSE. ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland), July 5. (Received July 6, at 10.5 aim.) At 3.17 p.m. Mattern and Griffin’s plane dropped a note at Cape Freels, Reading: “Please point to the landing place at Harbour Grace.” The machine then turned south in the general direction of the flying field 100 miles away and was lost in the dense fog which is persisting along the Newfoundland Coast. The flyers were far out of their course. A SAFE LANDING. HARBOUR GRACE, July 6. (Received July 6, at 10.15 a.m.) Mattern and Griffin landed at 4.37 p.m.. after being lost for hours in a dense fog, in which they overflew their mark by 160 miles. DEPARTURE FROM HARBOUR GRACE. HARBOUR GRACE, July 5. (Received July 6, at 11.55 a.m.) The flyers hopped off for the Atlantic at 7.28 p.m.