New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

by James Shade. lands on roof Of Cleve-
land hotel.
May 27-First transatlantic flight;
y. 5. Navy NC-4. flying boat, comple etes
transatlantic flight, arriving at Lisbon,
Portugal.
June 1-Organization Of the first air
plane forest fire patrol over Cleveland
National Forest, California Curtiss
JN-4-D army Planes used until longer
can built DH-A battle planes. Army
Air Service pilots detached to Bureau
Agriculture.
Honors for Woman Flyer
June baroness de la Roche, in
france, ascends 1880 feet in single
motored G-3 Caudron, breaking worlds
attitude record for women.
June l4--First non stop transatlantic
Ilgnt; captain John Alcock, pilot, and
Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown,
navigator, complete first nonstop flight
sGros; sc ,s,;. Atlantic Ocean in 15 hours and
o. minutes. Best steamship time. 4
days. 10 hours and al minutes for same
distance.
July g. Farman biplane Goliath
makes makes nonstop fight from Paris to
oakar' Morocco. carrying eleven passen-
gers. Total distance of flight. 1.7OO
miles; average speed. 100 miles an
July 6.First Transatlantic dirigible
hight. British superdirigible R-34
lanos at Roosevelt Field, L. l., com
pleting first leg of its successful round
"TRIP hight from England to America.
July 24-"Round the Rim" flight.
lieutenant Colonel R. L.Hartz and Lieu
tenant Ho
er start from Boiling Field, Washing
ton, D. c. Complete circuit of United
States, covering 1928 miles. Flight
completed November 9.
July 3l-New American altitude rec
ord. Roland Rohlfs in Curtiss Wasp
(triplane) ascends 30,4OO feet.
August 2S"Tex" Marshall, in Thom-
.as-Morse plane, makes record from al
tltude Of 1900 feet when he gldes 35
miles.
August 1l-Paris to Morocco. Far
man Goliath, carrying ten passengers,
makes 1.116 miles in 16 hours, 20 min
utes.
Mail Delivered at Sea
August l4-First mail delivered by
flying boat to steamer at sea. C. j.
zimmerman, test pilot, in Aeromarine
flying boat, drops bag of mail on for
ward deck of White Star liner Adriatic
an hour and half after she leaves her
pier in New York
August 2529-Curtiss Orole takes
first prize for speed and reliability
among commercial machines in New
ork- Toronto air race.
September 18-Official altitude rec
ord. Roland Rohlfs climbs 80 feet
IN Curtiss Wasp equipped with Curtiss
k-l2 4oo-horsepower motor. This test
was made without the aid of super
charger or special fuel. This reading
Is without cir emperature correction,
which is understood to be identical
with the method Of computing the rec
ord OF SO, 100 feet claimed by Lieuten-
ant Casale. With every correction
made Rohlfs's altitude is officially given
by the Bureau of Standards as 32.450
feet. In the absence Of corrections of
the Casale report the worlds altitude
record is therefore claimed by Rohlfs.
September 29-New hydro-mono-
plane altitude record-Caleb S.
Bragg, with passenger, makes new
world altitude record Of 1850 feet in
Looming 00-horsepower Hispano-
Suiza monoplane.
October IA TO December 10--London
to Australia. 1880 miles Four ma
chimes enter; trip carries pilots over
three continents and many seas with
1880 mile hop at the end of the
journey, from Bandoeng, Java, to Port
Darwin, North Australia. Captain
Ross Smith in Vickers-Vimy-R Rolls
biplane left London November 12; ar
rived at Port Darwin December 10.
October 17--Japan appropriates the