The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-07-07
Sees GOTHAM
FROM CLOUDS
Boston Youth Flies Over
Roofs Of, Skyscrapers.
Stunt Comes as Climax to Bos-
ton-New York Flight--New
Areoplane Record.

New York, July HAIRY NJ. At
wood, Boston youth sf q, who
has been a high flying aeroplane pi-
Let for about dght w'ssks, got out OF
bed in Nsw London at dawn today,
looked at the wsather and decided
that he would tune up his Wright BIZ
plane and take jaunt to New York
City, over the airline route. He got
to Governors Island shortly after 10
O'Clock, having chased a railroad
train through a stretch CT Connect
cut, swept down the East River over
He'll Gate, touched at Astoria for
gasoline, skipped over the Williams
burg and Brooklyn bridges, circled
above the Wall street district and
United States canyons, swung over
the top of the Singer building, nodd-
ed to the passengers ON an in-com-
ing ocean liner and TIPPED salute to
Miss Liberty.
He came alone and his trip was
unheralded. When he STOPPED at
Astoria-his gasoline supply had
then droped to less than gallon
he estimated that he covered 1873
miles without a stop. He figured
roughly that when he finally got to
Governors Island he had covered 140
miles. This is a record for American
cross-country flying. In view of tn
fact that he started from Boston on
Friday and dallied at New London
for an aeroplane view of the Har-
vard-Yale beat race, he made the
Boston to New York trip with only
one break, the flying distance be-
ing about 275 miles.
Young Mr.. Atwood, who hitherto
has not been generally rsgarded as
a top flyer among aviators, is the
first to maneuver the air channels
over the downtown district. His
course took him almost directly over
Wall strest and up Broadway,a short
distance above the Singer building
Most of the time he was thousand
feet above the tallest buildings, but
often he was within hundred feet
of them.
He experienced no difficulty in rid
ing the air path formed over The tall
buildings. 1t was no different than
going over the hills or mountains.
Really it was about the same, he
said. He did not notice that thsrs
were air currents dragging him down,
or shooting him up. If the wind is
driving toward a building and you
are going with the wind it will drive
you up, and on the other slde-if
you get over-th'sre is correspond
ing depressune. 1t is about the same
thing when you have to hurdle hill
with your aeroplane, Atwood said.
He did not intend to fly over the
city again unltss there was a pros
pect of some reward to pay for the
danger. He was satisfied that it
could be done and he had done it,
which was enough for him at present.
He had not Seen the people in dhe
streets because he had not looked,
and he did not bsar the noise.
When Atwood stepped cut of the
terolane aftsr landing at Governors
Island he wore a business suit, a
,lCch cap ard a pair CT long gloves.
II it had not be N for The gloves h.
would have ben taken for a young
business man. His clothes We're not
creased and his hair WAS net mussed
HIS ifaoe was blotchad with rsd spots,
VII $40 the wind lad sc0rchsd it. but
he red splo,chles did not show much,
or he is very damned. His ears ach-
ID and thsre wers queer drumming
sounds pounding in his head, he
aid, but otherwise he was all right,
xcept perhaps little nsrvous and
ired. In about an hour this dis
Igreeable feeling had passed away
nd during most of the afternoon he
hated with reporters at this Hotel |
danGattan-
Atwood, who is Wright pupil, |