The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-30
FIRST AIR VOYAGE
over The ATLANTIC
Made By Daring American
Defying Death For
Fame.


can navy added new laurels to its
achievements and traditions to-day
when Lieut.. Com. Albert Cushing
Read, and his five companions, in
the naval seaplane NC-4 went from
The Azores to Portugal and com
~pleted the first transatlantic air
flight ever made in the history of the
world
However often the high seas of the
Atlantic may again be crossed, either
In relay or straightway jumps, the
credit of being the first to pilot a
heavier than an air craft through the
skies from the new to the old world
is one that can never be wrested from
Com. Read and his crew.
f5 The distance from Ponta Delgada,
the starting point in the Azores to
Lisbon, the stopping point on the con-
tinent. is 500 nautical miles and this
was covered by the NC-4 to-day in
nine hours and forty-four minutes.
The seaplane travelled like an ex-
press train, passing each of the four
teen station ships in regular order, as
II travelling on schedule time and COW
cred the 500 miles at an average
speed of S2.1i miles an hour.
"A This was the best average time
made anywhere on the route from
Rockaway Point to Portugal. except
fon the short hop OF $50 miles from
Horta to Ponta Delgada. in the
Azores. which was covered last week
/. in one hour and forty minutes or at
Jan average speed of S56S miles an
hour.
BY maintaining an average OF ST.
4 miles an hour for the straightaway
run of 500 miles TO Portugal to-day
rthe NC-4 did almost as well in the
matter of speed as on the short hop
from Horta to Ponta.
Since leaving Rockaway the NC-4
has covered $3.50 miles in straight
away flying.
This total Of $3.50 miles has been
covered in 2,613 minutes in actual
flying time, or in forty-three hours
and thirty-three minutes of actual
flying, broken up into five legs of
flying. This actual flying time of o.
613 minutes for 3.l60 air line miles.
represents an average speed of seven
ty-two miles an hour for the whole
Tourney.
Naval experts and aviators here are
more than jubilent over the perform
ance and regard the record that has
been made by the NC-4 as remarka-
bit They feel also that the success
of the filters so far has been a full
Justification of the careful plans that
were made by the navy more than
two months ago for the flight.
Record Made by NC-4.
The record made by the NC-4 from
Rockaway to Lisbon is considered
very remarkable for pioneer voyage
of this sort Here is the record.
Rockaway to Halifax, distance $40
miles: actual flying time. hours AZ
minutes, or 467 minutes; average
speed 60 miles an hour.
Halifax to Trepassey Bay, distance
AGO miles actual flying time, S hours !
and SO minutes, or 539 minutes; ay-
erage speed 81 miles an hour.
Trepassey Bay to Horta, distance
/, 200 miles; actual flying time, Is /
hours and IS minutes. or 91S min
utes; average speed 7S.40 mixes an !
hour.
Horta to Ponta Delgada. distance !
l5O miles; actual flying time, l hour
and As minutes, or $50 minutes ;av-'
erage speed S5.6S miles an hour.
Ponta Delgada to Lisbon, distance
500 miles; actual flying time, 8 hours
and A minutes, or 5S4 minutes; av-
erage speed S214 miles an hour.
Rockaway to Lisbon distance $3.50
miles; actual flying time, Az hours
and 80 minutes, or 2.613 minutes;
average speed 72 miles an hour.
The actually transatlantic voyage
was from Trepassey Bay to Lisbon,
distance of ALSO miles, in three
Jumps. The flying from Rockaway
to Trepassey Bay was merely prelimi-
nary to the main trans-ocean flight
| ust as the rest of the journey from
Lisbon to Plymouth is merely supple
and not officially counted as
part of the transatlantic flight. The
showing for this part of the flight
|Trepassey to Lisbon, distance ALSO
miles; actual flying time, 26 hours
and Az minutes, or 1907 minutes;