The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-17
THE TIMES: JUNE IT, 1919

plane she banged straight into the machine, and we hoped on board. The ship slung a rope out, and hauled the boat back, and we climbed aboard the Mary"
 "As soon as I got aboard" said Grieve, T went on the bridge and asked the captain if he could salve the machine. He said he was sorry he couldn't and added, That was a narrow escape you had We lost everything, and went aboard without caps or boots. All my log was wash ed out of my pockets except one small page of rough notes-"
 Felt It Was Cert.
 These two gallant men were very shy of saying anything about their feelings. At last they summed them up together as follows:
 Grieve-'I didn't feel the slightest bit excited either at the start or at the rescue"
 Hawker-"Nor I. It seemed the least eventful affair I ever had. When we started we felt 1t was a cert-100 to 1 on.'
 Grieve-"I had jolly good feeling when we saw the ship. Messing about looking for ship for about two hours and being seasick for the whole time, wasn't very merry and bright" and added, "the weather was no hind drance and we should have made the flight but for the boiling water trou- ble. We could have got through the worst of the weather in a couple of hours."
 Hawker used ITO gallons of petrol out of the $40 gallons he had started with.
 ''The wireless" said Grieve, Twas not a great success. On starting the flight the spark was found to be fee ble, and only a small amperage could be obtained. This was due to the un dersized propeller used to drive it.
 'Look at Old Tinsides.''
 Tt was silent voyage through the clouds. We were quiet for an aero plane, and the noise of the engine did not worry us much" said MT. Haw- ker. We had a long exhaust pipe, which carried off most of the noise." As the machine left St. Johns, Commander Grieve said, Look at old Tinsides (Mr. Raynham) with crowd around him. MT. Hawker re- piled, We've got the bulge on him. T nearly fell out of the machine with fright. It was equivalent to a beam wind of 20 miles an hour, but I said nothing in reply-just kept my course accordingly.''
 Commander Grieve thus described how he set the aeroplane course: From the navigating point of view, placed no reliance on the wireless other than a means of asking the positions of such ships as we might pass over. Ships had previously been asked by wireless from St. Johns to make known their position if they saw US by day or if we fired a red Verey light by night As we saw no vessel no light was fired. The Faraday may have seen the red slow of our ex- haust-
 Used Cloud Horizon.
 T preferred to navigate chiefly by celestial observation, and my position by them when picked up was practi- 'cally correct I used a cloud horizon instead of the sea horizon, as the sea was hardly visible at any part of the time were were in the air. For the first four hours after leaving we were passing over the fog banks and the clouds below were like the sea, giv- ing a perfect horizon. I had only to judge our height above them and take the sun as on sea horizon. About T o'clock co. M. ID I saw the sea for a few seconds through a hole in the fog and cloud bank, and early obtained the drift of the machine by noting the breaking waves through the drift indicator, and we were then at 4,000 feet. and climbing. The drift was 10 degrees to the right of our course, which I had already allowed for on starting owing to the northeast wind then blowing from St. Johns.
 Up to 10:15 co. M. ID we steer ed to make a true east course, not a magnetic east. During that period took sights every hour, and at 1O:15 made her 400 miles from St. Johns then altered course to north 73 east true, to keep in the track of ships, which we should just have entered in at that time. The clouds got badly broken up and made sights impossi- ble until about 1:3O a. m., when I managed to get the Pole Star down to flat piece of cloud, and was sur prised to find we were about 150 miles south of our course, and immediately altered little to the northward to counteract this drift From further sight obtained half an hour later I found we were still setting to the southward, too and realizing that a very strong northerly gale must have been blowing l made decided altera- tions up to the northward and worked the machine up to latitude 50 degrees north and in to the track of ships.
 At 3 a. m. I got a good position by two stars. and found us on the di- rect course and about $50 miles from St. Johns. Further sights were inn possible owing to our being in the clouds and the approach of daylight. At a. m. I made our position 50 de- grees north, 29.3O degrees west from that we then came down low to look for ships, making a bit to the north