Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-27
FLYERS DODGED CLOUD
BANKS AND FOUGHT
ENGINE TROUBLE
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and the Australian delegation halls
him as q worthy son Of tho great
land which gave him birth. The flight
was for the purpose of testing the
ability Of an airplane to CROSS q great
space in new way. Technically the
airplane has yet to be proved, but
proved the ability Of the men who
operate those machines. It IL q great
thing to know we can still produce
brave men; it Is perhaps greater that
the whole world after fve years Of
war still admires bravery"
| Aviator's Story Of Flight.
| LONDON, May 26-The Daily Mail
today prints a dispatch from Thurso.
Scotland. giving the simple narrative
OF Harry G. Hawker. the British
aviator. regarding the unsuccessful
attempt to fly across the Atlantic
mander Mckenzie Grieve.
I'VE had very difficult ground to
rise from on the other side," said
Hawker. ITO rise at all we had to
run diagonally across the course.
"Once we got away we climbed well.
but about ten minutes up we passed
from firm. clear weather into New
| touHu Iaho Io6 oanhs. VIC Bot wei
over these, however, and Of course at
once lost sight Of the sea.
| The sky was quite clear for the hrst
four hours, when the visibility became
very bad. Heavy cloud banks were
Encountered and eventually we Jew
into heavy storm with rain squalls.
| "At this time we were hying well
above the clouds at height Of about
$4,000 feet.
About five and one-half hours out,
owing to the choking of the filter, the
temperature of the water cooling our
engine started to rise, but after COM
ing down several thousand feet we
overcame this difficulty. Everything
went well for another few hours,
when once again the circulation sys-
| tenn became choked and the tempera-
ture of tho water rose to tho boiling
point.
Make Hateful Decision.
I'VE, of course. realised that until
the pipe was cleared We could not
rise much higher without using lot
about twelve and one-half hours on
our way the circulation system was
still giving us trouble, ana we real
lied that we could not 60 on using
up our motor power.
| Then 1t was that We reached the
uTSI tdlSluA uGSiDaoh W PAey w.
safety. We changed our course and
began flying diagonally across the
main shipping route for about two
and a half hours, when. TO our great
relief, we sighted Danish steamer
which proved to be the tramp. Mary.
signals. These were answered prompt
lly and then we few on about two
miles and landed in the water ahead
Of the steamer.
| '"rhe sea was exceedingiy rough.
and despite the utmost EFFORTS OF the
before they succeeded in taking us
of. It was only at great risk to
themselves, in fact, that they even
I tualIy succeeded in launching a
small boat, owing to the heavy gale
from tho northeast which was
1T was found impossible to salve
the machine, which. however, most
probably !. still adoat somewhere IN
mid-Atlantic.
hours out from Newfoundland. and
we were picked up at $50 Green
.From Capt. DUNN Of the Mary and
his Danish crew we received the
greatest kindness on the journey
home. The ship carries no wireless:
and il was not until We arrived on
the Butt Of Lewis that We were able
| to communicate with the authorities.
| "On Lochernibol we were met by the
destroyer Woolsun and conveyed TO
Scapa Flow, where we had 2 splen-
did welcome homo from ADMIRAL
Fremantle and the men OF the grand
neet."
Grieve's Statement.
lieut. Commander Grieve gave the
Daily Mail the following statement:
'sWhen q few hundred miles out .
strong northerly gale drove as
steadily out Of our course. It was
not always possible, owing to the
pressule Of dense masses OF clouds.
to take our bearings, and calculaee
that at the time we determined to
cut across the shipping route We
were about 200 miles out OF our
course. Up to this change OF direco
tion We had covered about 1000
miles Of the Journey to tho irish
coast"
Congratulated by King.
King George. who had sent con-
| dolences to Mrs. Hawker. today sent
q message Of congratulation to Haw-
ker and Grieve. Others who sent
messages to Mrs. Hawker today were
Rear Admiral Knapp, American naval
commander here; the admiralty. the
| Showing the faith of Mrs. Hawker
in her husbands return. the Mail
prints q letter she wrote to Lord
Northcliffe on Friday regarding his
offer to divide the prize Of 10000
among the aviatofe' heirs. She wrote