ACROSS AMERICA

Southland Times, Issue 19280, 26 June 1924, Page 5

ACROSS AMERICA

AVIATOR RECEIVES OVATION. CHEERING MASS OF SPECTATORS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 24. The demonstration accorded Lieutenant Maughan on completing the flight from New York was without parallel in the history of local aviation. He made the landing without mishap on a brilliant pathway, huge flares making the field almost as light as day. The cheering mass of spectatora broke through the police line, and automobile horns shrieked, the whole producing a bedlam of noise. Lieutenant Maughan was lifted from the cockpit by cheering comrades of the Air Service and carried off the field through a swirling crowd. The landing time is given officially as 9 hours 47 minutes 15 seconds, making a totol time for the trip 21 hours i Kiiuuivs -xo seconds. The distance is 2850 miles, and the average speed was 156 1-5 miles per hour. Lieutenant Maughan made five stops —at Dayton, St. Joseph, North Platte, Cheynne and Salduro. The time actually occupied in the flight was 18 hours 20 minutes.