ATLANTIC FLIGHT PERILS

Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1928, Page 9

ATLANTIC FLIGHT PERILS

STURTZ’S BATTLE IN RAIN ONE ENGINE DID NOT PULL LONDON WELCOMES FLIERS • By Telegraph—Press Assn,—Copyright. Australian Press Association. Received June 20, 7.15 p.m. London, June 20. Stultz, tile pilot of the Friendship, told the Daily Express that before they were half-way across the Atlantic rain penetrated one of the engines. He would not say more, but it was obvious from his tone that the engine did not pull its weight. Miss Earhart, however, did not know of it. The honour of making the fastest trans-Atlantie flight still remains with the Englishmen, Aleoek and Brown, who accomplished the achievement nine years ago and who, in a Vickers-Vimy biplane with Rolls-Royce engines, averaged 118 miles hourly. Among the congratulatory telegrams sent to the Friendship crew was One from the British Air Minister and the Air Council. The aeroplane arrived at Southampton Amid rousing cheers and roars from steamers’ sirens. The fliers motored to London, where they were met by a dense cheering crowd. They stayed at the Hyde Park Hotel. JHGHT PREVIOUS FLIGHTS. FIRST MADE NINE YEARS AGO. The Friendship left Newfoundland at 6.51 a.m. on Sunday and reached Llanelly 22 hours later, 7.51 a.m. by the same clock. She was flying against the sun, and English time being four hours ahead of Newfoundland time, she reached Llanelly about 12.40 »p.m. by local time.

The following list shows the successful trans-Atlantic flights in aeroplanes: May, 1919. —United States seaplane NC4, under Lieutenant-Commander A. C. Read, Newfoundland-Azores-Lisbon. June, 1919.—Vickers-Vimy ’plane, Sir John Aleoek and Sir Whitten Brown (who were knighted for their success), Newfoundland to Ireland.

March, 1922.—Seaplane piloted by Commanders Cabial and Coutinko, of Portugal, Lisbon-Canary Islands-Capo Verdo Islands-Pernambuco.

January, 1920.—Dornier-Wai flyingboat, Commandante Fraino (Spain), Canaries-Femando Noronha-Pernambuco

February, 1927.—Savoia, 555 flyingboat, Marchese di Pinedo, Cape VerdeFernando Noronla-Pcrnambuco.

May, 1927.—Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, New York to Paris.

June, 1927.—Bellanca monoplane Miss Columbia, Mr. Clarence Chamberlin, New York to Eisliben, Germany. April, 1928. —German monoplane Bremen, Herr Koehl, Baron von Huehnefeld and Major Fitzmauriee, Ireland to Labrador. June, 1928.—American monoplane Friendship, Captain Stultz, Mr. Gordon (with Miss Earhart, the first woman t« fly across tho Atlantic, as passenger). Newfoundland to Wales.