The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-06-16
A|RMEN CROSS
WITHOUT STOP
British Pilots Land on Irish
Coast After Is Hours and
II Minutes of Flying.
COVERED 1900 MILES
Heavy Fog and Mists Hung
Over Seat at All Attitudes
During Most of Trip.
SHIP CRASHES AT FINISH
Both Men Slightly Dazed
When Plane Hits Bog
in Landing.

nv The Associated Pre-"
LONDON. June 1.-THE final
goal Of all the ambitions which
flying men have Sentured 10 dream
since The Wright brothers first rose
from the earth In a hcavier-than-nir
machine, was realized this morning,
when the young British officers,
captain Jack Alcock and Lieutenant
Arthur Brown, landed on the Irish
coast after tho first nonstop flight
across the Atlantic ocean,
Their voyage was without acci-
dent, and without unforeseen incl
dent so far as can he learned. u
was a straightnway clcan-cut flight
achieved in i6 hours and IL minutes
From NewfoundAnd 10 Cllfdcn.
ireland, a distance OF moro than
1900 miles,
But the brief and modest descrip-
ton which comes from the airmen
At Cllfdcn tells OF an adventurous
and amazingly hazardous enter
prise. Fog and mists hung over the
north Atlantic and the Vlckers-Vimy
hiplane climbed and dove. struggling
to cxtricate herself from the folds OF
the airplanss worst enemy.
She rose 20 1000 feet swooped
down almos, 10 tho surface OF the
sea and at times the two naVisators
| found themselves flying upside down
only o feet above the water.
Before coming to earth near tho
| Clifden wireless station, Alcock cir
clcd the wireless aorials seeking the
| best spot to reach the earth. But
no suitable ground was found so hs
chanccd II in n bog.
The wireless STAFF rushed to the
aid OF the avlators They found
Brown dnzed and Alcock temporarily
deafcned by the force OF the impact.
As soon aa they were able to he es-
corted to tho wireless station they
telegraphed the news to their friends
and then had breakfast
THAT II the best way 10 cross
the Atlantic" said Lieutenant Brown 3
after he had eaten.
The landing was made at $40
o'clock British summer time. In
taking the ground tho machine
struck heavily and the fuselage
ploughed into the sand Neither OF
tho occupants was injured
Much OF the flight was made
through " fog with an occasional
drzzle. This hampered the airmen
considerably during their Journey
Captain Alcock explained tho al
lence OF his radio instrument during
the trip by saying that the wireless
propeller blew or soon after ths
airplane left Newfoundland.
I'VE were much jammcd hy strong
wireless signals not intended for us"
he added,
when word wns received here Of
the accident TO the machine In land
ing arrangements were made for
mechanics to leave Lonton imme-
IIafply a O.
Word came from cltfden this aft
crnoon that the pilot and the navi-
gator or the blplane were leaving
for Galway whence Lieutenant
brown planned to travel by train 10
London. arriving there on Tuesday
morning Captain AlcOck, however,
hopes To be able TO fly TO London In
the machine which made the record
NiEht as soon ~ It could be repaired
Il was planned to have him given an
exhibition over London in the ma
chine II possible
The Aero club received n message
from Cl!fdcu not long after the
transatlantic flicrs landed, signed
by them which merely stated that
they had completed the flight in Is
hours and ,i2 minutes They re-
qucstcd Instructions from the club.
In reply the club tcleytaphcd Cap
tain AlCuCk.
Keep machine Intact until OBJ
server arriCcs
The air ministry stated that GER
tain marks were put on the air
plane a. Newfoundland which must
b" officially Identified by member
u the royal air force before tho
night Is declared To have been Of
hclally completed. II was said at