The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25
Started at 3 O'clock to Fly
Twenty-six Miles on Last
Leg of His Cross Country
Trip for Record,
MOTOR TROUBLES
ONLY IMPEDlMENT
Otherwise, He Will Fly Ov-
er New York, He An
nounced-Plans Coast to
Coast Journey.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
NEW YORK. Aug. 25.- Atwood
passed Grants tomb at 125th street at
2:20 O'Clock and continued down the
Hudson until he passed Chambers
street. when he turned in toward the
city and made several thrilling circles
over the immense skyscrapers before
proceeding to Governors Island where
he landed without mishap at 2:30 p.
m. Half the population of New York
stopped business to view the finish OF
the greatest flight ever accomplished
Atwood started for New York at 200
o'clock
WEST NYACK. N. Y, Aug. 25-With
New York or Bust for his motto avi-
ator Atwood announced this forenoon
that he would complete his st. Louis
to the Atlantic trip. starting at 3
o'clock this afternoon. His goal is
twenty-six miles distant. Atwood also
announced positively he would fly
from San Francisco to New York be-
fore October first for William Ran
dolph Hearst's $4,000 prize, taking a
southerly route
Il am going down the Hudson river
today-that's certain. and I'll complete
that 1865 miles trip before nightfall.
probably shall start about 3 o'clock
this afternoon"
Atwood's machine rested in trap
in wooded piece of vacant ground
while brisk north wind was blowing.
Atwood said IL 1t shifted to the east
or south, the air pocket" formed by
the trees and the Typographical posi-.
tion Of the field would disappear and
he would be able to start without DIM
Guilty Otherwise, ne declared, he would
take his machine apart, carry it to q
favorable starting point and re-assem-
BILE it.
The repairs on the machine had all
been made and j new connecting rod
installed in the motor.
Il hope to land at Sheepshead Bay
at 4 o'clock this afternoon after flying
over New York City" continued At
wood. Il know the people there are
anxious to see me after the long trip
have made.
MY plans include flight over New
York City and circle over Governors
Island and the bay; then over Long
Island to Sheepshead Bay, the landing
point.
Atwood did not underestimate the
| terrible risk he took in starting on the
last wing of the flight in the same
aeroplane in which he had broken the
worlds record. He admitted that the
machine was literally exhausted by
the tear and strain of eleven days con
slant service. Slight breaks in the mo
tor had warned him that the machin
cry was suffering from its hard usage
Machine Exhausted.
No aviator in the world courted
death so openly as Atwood did today
when he decided to make the final les
of his voyage over New York in his
exhausted machine The dangers in q
sound, new, aeroplane are manifold
but Atwood added to these by sticking
to his old aeroplane.
| The combination OF difficulties
which beset Atwood today were thu
worst he had encountered SO far OF
his long flight. A rainstorm blew VI
in the night. which was followed By
Intermittent squalls Added to thi.
he says in cramped landing place
and lastly his motor was showing
signs of WEAKNESS from constant ser
Ivice.
A number Of friends journeyed t.
INyack from New York city to ses
the getaway, and while the aviator
tested and examined his machine b.
told an interesting story of the haz
ards he had encountered 50 far on hi,
trip and the incidents which had en-
livened his sky voyage. He also re
ivealed the plans he had made for com
lpeting for the $4,000 prize offered b,
w R. Hearst for an aeroplane fligh
from ocean to ocean. He said b.
would start from San Francisco, pass
ing Los Angeles and reach New Yorl
within 20 or 25 days after leaving tn,
Pacific coast.
Coast to Coast Trip.
Although am on the outskirts an,
will enter the greatest city in tn
United States before nightfall unles
something happens to my machine,
have still another and greater job
1865 mile flight" said Atwood
! Il am going to fly from San Francis
CO to New York for the $50, 900 prize
shall try the flight some time befor
October l. 1t is my intention to us
q brand new Burgess Wright biplan
Of the same type as this one here.
hope to make the entire 5000 mile trf
in that one aeroplane. shall leave i
q short time for the west and believ
that can be in New York in 20 or 2
days after leaving Frisco. / sha
travel by the way Of Los Angeles owe
1.-The Southern route: