num_pages: 519
description: Excerpt from AircraftI took pretty good care that I should not fall victim of the first of these two I had my latest and best engine aboard and just as I had every reason to expect it ran perfectly from start to finish. Extra precautions were taken to prevent the loosening of guy wires and in fact a leak age in the oil tank was the single mechanical incident of the voyage. While the running out of oil compelled me to land twelve or thirteen miles before reaching Governor's Island it was only afterwards that I discovered it for I thought at the time that the loss of the oil was due to the pump causing too great a ?ow. As regards the weather it was all that could be desired; the air' disturbances I encountered in the narrow part of the Hud son Valley  violent as they proved to be and ticklish as they were to overcome  were purely local in character and in the open stretches the breeze was never very great. I waited several days for a good day as I knew a breeze at Albany would mean a small gale around such places as Storm King; had the course lain over perfectly ?at country I would not have been so hard to please in the matter of air conditions. I have been asked whether this ?ight was a harder one to succeed in than the. London to Manchester one. It is very hard to compare two events so different in character.
language: English
title: Aircraft, Vol. 1: March, 1910
publisher: Forgotten Books