Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-07

importance, a truer picture of the
voyage will be obtained
Time, 6 a. M, July z.
"Airship running on four engines
with 1000 revolutions. Forward
engine being given a rest. Air
speed SO knots-land miles per hour
made good 56.7. Course steered
2o8 dcgrees-north e. degrees west
course made good SO degrees north
| II west. Wind northeast IS l-3
miles per hour Height 1900 feet.
Lose Sight of the Sea.
Large banks of clouds came roll
ing along from the Atlantic, grad
ually plotting out all view of the sea.
At first we were above these clouds,
but gradually they rose higher and
we plowed our way into the middle
of them.
Seven a. M:
Nothing but dense fog, estimated
by Harris, the mete geological officer,
to 60 down to within so feet of the
water and up to height of about
5000 feet.
Suddenly we catch a glimpse of
the sea through hole in the clouds
and it is now easy to see we have
slight drift to the south, which is
what was estimated by both Scott,
the captain, and Cook, the navigat
ing officer.
"A few minutes later we find our
selves above the clouds, our height
still being 1900 feet, and beneath a
cloudy sky with clouds at about 5000
feet. We are, therefore, in between
two layers of clouds, condition
which Alcock and Brown found
themselves on more than one occa-
sion on their recent flight from west
to east.
"An excellent cloud horizon now
presents itself on all sides of which
Cooke at once takes advantage.
These observations, if the cloud
horizon is quite flat, ought to prove
a valuable rough guide, but cannot
be regarded as accurate unless one
can also obtain a check on the sun
by day or the moon and stars by
night.
Cooke reckons it is easy to make
as much as 50-mile error in locat-
ing ones position when using a
cloud horizon as substitute for
sea horizon.
"7:30 a. M:
Good Breakfast Served.
Breakfast in crew space up in
the keel consisted of cold ham, one
hard-boiled egg each bread and but
ter and hot tea We breakfast in
two watches, generally about IS in
each.
The first watch for breakfast
was Scott, Cooke, Pritchard, adj
miralty expert; Lansdowne, lieuten-
ant commander United States air
ship service; Shooter, engineer;
Harris, meteorological officer; my
self and half the crew.
conversation during breakfast
reverted to the recent flight up the
Baltic and in the adjoining COM
partment the graphaphone was en-
tertaining the crew to the latest
jazz tunes, such as The Wild, Wild
Women
al a. m.-Still ploughing our
way through the fog at 1900 feet. /
Sea completely hidden by clouds
and no visibility whatsoever.
Stopped forward and two aft en-
gines and now running on only the
two wing engines at 1000 revolt
tons. These are giving US an air
speed of 80 knots. or 1876 miles per
hour. This is the airship's most eff
ficient speed, as she only consumes
on the two engines Is gallons of
petrol per hour. @,... -4
wind is east, seven miles per
hour and SO we are making good
40 miles per hour and resting three
engines.
Cooke is now on the top of the
airship taking observations of the
sun, using the cloud horizon with a
sextant. The sun is visible to him,
but not to us, the top of the ship
being IS feet above us down here
in the fore control cabin.
Our position is reckoned to be
latitude S. degrees, 10 minutes north
and longitude IA degrees, 40 minutes
west, which is equivalent to 400
miles from our starting point, at
East Fortune, and 200 miles out in
the Atlantic from the northwest
coast of Ireland.
1--WE are in wireless touch with
East Fortune, Clifden, on the west
coast of Ireland, and Ponta Del
Gada, Arozes, and messages wishing
us good luck are received from air
H. M. S. Queen Elizabeth
and others.
As a. m.-Lunch-excellent
beef stew and potatoes, chocolate
and cold water.
"The talk, as usual, was mainly
Shop dealing with such problems
as the distribution of air pressure
on the western side OF the Atlantic,
what winds were likely to be met
with, what fog we should run into,
the advantages of directional wire
less for navigational purposes, cloud
horizons and the like.
~ noon, watch off duty, turned
in for their routine four hours sleep
before coming on for their next
period of duty-on1y two hours in
this case-as it is the first of the
two dog watches.
Sleeping Arrangements.
THE sleeping arrangements con-
sist of hammock for each of the
men off watch, suspended from the