The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-06
AVIATOR RODGERS
FLEW INTO PASADENA
Landed There Late Yesterday Afternoon,
Preparatory to Making Final Squirt
in Transcontinental Trip.

Pasadena, Cal, Nov 6.--Ayiator CAL
braith r. Rodgers, approaching d sue
cessful completion of his ocean-to-ocean
iaunt, scared into Pasadena yesterday
on the last spurt of thirty miles from
Pomona and from an altitude of several
thousand feet landed at Tournament
park. Rodgers landed at 4;lO o'clock.
Rodgers appeared in the sky line short
~ after three o'clock. He was sighted
first by telescopes from the solar OBJ
servatory on Mount Wilson and word
hhshed down the mountain by telephone
brought 10000 persons to Tournament
park
FLYING at height OF about 5000 feet,
Rodgers lowered over the city for few
minutes, then cireled in wide spiral
and volplaned down. His landing was
signal for rush and Rodgers literally
was mobbed
Rodgers started on the last dash OF his
flight from Banning, Cal, at little town
out in the desert, where his arrival had
| interrupted the only diversion OF the
year, the funeral dance of the MoJave
| Indians.
Taking the air at noon, Rodgers set
his course directly west. His wife and
mother. who have been following him on
special train all the way from New
York, left Banning Immediately after
wards.
At Pomona, 2l miles from Pasadena,
Rodgers stopped and renewed his supply
OF gasoline and reflling the tank Of the
leaking radiator that brought him near
disaster Saturday.
After leaving Pomona, Rodgers kept
his biplane pointing upward until he
/ had climbed over the fleecy yapor flow
/ ing near the tops of the highest peaks
/ of the Sierra Madre mountains. As he
sped on to the finish at Tournament
park, he was on a level with the Mount
! Wilson observatory and flying close to
the ragged sides of the mountain.
/ His machine, a baby" Wright, that
has only an ls-foot spread OF wings,
seemed TO hesitate for an instant as the
aviator carried IL into the perilous
though spectacular spiral glide. At this
time he was directly over the park, but
as he came down his flyer described ever
widening curves until he was within a
| few hundred feet of the ground. Then
Rodgers performed one Of the dips Arch
/ Hoxsey was taking when he was killed
at Dominguez field within sight of Mount
1 Wilson last December.
/ Rodgers first word after he had been
I finally rescued from the clamorous crowd
was: SWELL one thing is certain; you
cannot do transcontinental fight in
80 days"
/ Rodgers also declared that his own
fight, begun September II and finished
/ to-day, 40 days later, would not be
duplicated for year or more.
Rodgers Start on Trip.
New York, Nov. 6.-CaIbraith p.
| Rodgers, the aviator who practically
completed his oeean-to-ocean flight by
landing at Pasadena, Cal, yesterday,
started from this city 40 days ago on what
was to prove his merchandising trip.
Theayiator in a Wrlght biplaue rose from
the Sheepshead Bay race track at 4:25
lp m on September II and arrived at
Pasadena at 4:l0 p. m. yesterday He
left behind him at Marshall Mo-, on
October 10, broken worlds record for
a cross country flight, having then trav-
eled 1898 miles, as against the record Of
,265 miles previously made BY Harry
Atwood Rodgers mileage over the At
wood record Kept piling up until upon
his arrival at Pasadena he had eclipsed
the Atwood figures by total of 1896
miles.
Figured from his actual flying time Of
three days, ten hours and four minutes,
in travelling 1921 miles, his rate of speed
was 5l.59 miles an hour.
Atwood's former worlds record was
made August 25, l9ll when he finished
his flight from St. Louis to New York. a
distance Of 1866 miles.