ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 September 1936, Page 5

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

AMERICAN AIR VENTURE OUT APTER RECORD. s Press Asstwhiilau Electric Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, Wednesday.- , ' With Harry Richman, a noted vaudeville artist as passenger and Dick Mer--1 rill, a well-known commercial pilot, at the controls, a monoplane christened , Lady Peace, took off on the first round I 0 r f a trip to London, which it is hoped to\ reach, at noon. The flyers are to return* immediately after refuelling. The flyers .are confident that both ways they will take less time than: Colonel Lindbergh on his, Paris hop. SAFELY ACROSS. FORCED DOWN IN WALES.

(Received Friday, $.25 a.m.) LONDON, Thursday,

, The trans-Atlantic flier's, Richman!'. and Merrill, landed at Llwyncelyan in: Wales. They made a forced landing, but were uninjured and the machine was not damaged. Richman phoned Croydon saying that they had a perfect crossing, their time being about fifteen hours. He hopes to get refuelled and leave for Croydon tonight. Richman later said that they flew at about 11,000 feet. He. did not see the Atlantic for more than an hour, at a time, and must have averaged about 210 miles per hour. Sometimes they were doing 250 miles. The machine went into a steep nose dive half way across,. “We were both thrown from our seats,” lie said, “and had a hard struggle to regain control. We lost three thousand feet in height. That certainly was a scare. We landed owing to a shortage of petrol. We circled for one and a half hours before finding a landing place. There were a lot of low clouds, and there seemed to be cattle everywhere. The weather at present is bad. The reason for our silence was the failure of the radio while trying to talk to London. Croydon is sending two machines laden with fuel to Llwyncelyan.