WONDERFUL FLIGHT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16347, 23 May 1927, Page 8

WONDERFUL FLIGHT

LINDBERGH’S FEAT RECEPTION SCENES “BAFFLE DESCRIPTION’’ (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian ami N.Z. Cable Association. Received May 23, 1 p.m.) PARIS, May 22. Captain Lindbergh had a tremendous reception at Lebourget, where he landed at 10.22 o’clock last night, and was greeted with wild cheering, which the enormous crowd kept up for 20 minutes. Then the airman was carried shoulder high to where the American Ambassador, Mr. Herrick, with the Minister of Labor, were waiting to welcome him. After receiving their congratulations, Captain Lindbergh, who was a very tired man, was placed in Mr. Herrick’s car and driven to Paris. The crowds had boon gathered since early in the afternoon, and the scones baffled description. The roads leading to Lebourget were jammed 'with motorcars. Captain Lindbergh made a wonderful landing. Searchlights lighted up over 100.000 faces watching the approaching ’plane, which was immediately surrounded by a Imgo crowd when it laijided. Sentries and police. were knocked down in the crowd’s eagerness to welcome the airman. One report says the military wore obliged to charge the. crowd in order to get Captain Lindbergh clear. Sir Alan Cohliam, interviewed, said : “ Captain Lindbergh’s endurance is a most wonderful feature. How he managed to stay awake and keep the machine on its course almost passes my comprehension. He must have, a constitution like iron, and absolutely no nerves. The achievement goes to show v, hat a. safe business Hying really is. Captain Lindbergh was fortunate as regards the weather, but oven so it- is a truly wonderful feat.” Lieutenant Lindbergh, slept for 11 hours, and iii the meantime the authorities diverted vehicular traffic from the neighbourhood of tho American Embassy, which nevertheless was thronged all day by cinema operators, who took up their positions. Telegraph mesengers arrived m an unending stream, arid hundreds of magnilicioiil hunches of flowers filled a. large, room. RAN INTO SNOW,STORM. Captain Lindbergh, in «-onversa!ion vvilli the Glided Slaf.es Ambassador, said that, though the weather reports were, must favorable when he started he soon ran into a snowstorm. Frozen snow settled on Hie machine, and this added considerably to llm weight. C'apt. Lindbergh advanced the theory (hat similarly a snow storm may have caused Captain Nungesser’s plane* to fall. Deadly fog deprived Captain Lindbergh of sight of water for hours on end. Once disaster nearly overtook him. Ho was sweeping downwards and discovered lie was iust a few feet- from the waves. Had ho touched he would have been unable to rise. Comparisons between Captain Lindbergh’s and Sir John Allcock’s times show that the American averaged 1071, miles an hour and the Englishmen 118. FLIGHT THAT FAILED LONDON TO KARACHI DESCENT IN PERSIAN GULF (N.Z., ami A.P.A., and Sun.) (Received May 23, 1 p.m.) LONDON, May 22. Limits. Carr and Gillnmn alighted safely in the Persian Gulf, 45 miles south-east of Bandar Abbas, and wore picked up. The machine was totally wrecked. Limits. Carr and Gilbiian left England on Friday morning in an endeavor to make a. non-stop flight to Karachi and possibly to Calcutta. It is possible even now that, the world’s non-stop record lias been eclipsed. The present record is .4.'1-15 miles, established by two Frenchmen who flow from Paris to Persia in 82 hours. The distance to Bandar Abbas is in excess of 3000 miles, and the distance actually covered may have been considerably in excess of that distance. 'l'lie aviators had covered well over three-fourths of the journey to Karachi, but they had another 2000 miles to go to reach Calcutta.