Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-06-20
NONSTOP FLIGHT
OVER THE OCEAN
British Plane Goes 1860 Files in
Sixteen Hours.
RACE ACROSS FOGBoUND SEA
Bio Bomber Lands at CIifden, ireland,
With Both Pilot and Navigator in
Good Spirits--FIeW Upside
Down.

London, June 16-To Jack Alcock, a
captain in the British royal air force,
and his navigator, Lieut. Arthur w.
Brown, an American, goes the honor
of having made the first nonstop flight
across the Atlantic, from Newfound-
land to Ireland. The Daily Nails $780,
goo prize is theirs.
! Forty minutes after eight o'clock
Sunday morning their big Vickers-
| Vimy biplane landed on the beach near
Clifden, Galway. They made the
fight in Is hours and q minutes, hav-
ing left ST. Johns, Newfoundland, at
a :13 Saturday afternoon (Greenwich
time), II :13 New York time.
Lose Sense of Direction.
Both pilot and navigator were in
| good SPIRITS but terribly fatigued.
Every mile of the flight was terrible
battle against the elements. OF the
human qualities that combined to con-
quer the air on his direct transatlan-
| tic route unshakable pluck was un-|
| questionably the decisive factor. lnl-i
! mediately after landing, Captain Al
| cock said:
'We were tired, being alone in the
fog and drizzle. Sometimes we found
ourselves flying upside down, having
lost all sense of direction while en-
veloped in the heavy blanket of fog.
less propeller blew off soon after We
| greater part of the flight. The wire
| Our wireless was useless for the
started from st. Johns. Our receiver
was much damned by strong signals
| not intended for u.s."
Both Alcock and Lieutenant Brown
were in good spirits when they made
| their landing. The machine suffered
| some minor damages through coming
| down rather heavily on the sandy
| shore, but neither Alcock nor Brown
| suffered any injury.
Make Two Miles a Minute.
The remarkable flying time, averag-
| ing close to two miles q minute, is
creditable to a favorable wind, which
at times added 30 miles an hour to the
gpeed of the biplane.
The landing was rough. The fuse
iage bowled into the sand and the lin
Yen on the underestimate of the lower
wings was ripped. Neither Alcock nor
Brown was injured. Stifiy they
,crawled from their cockpits and shook
| hands.
The flight was triumph of air navi-
cation. Lieutenant Brown plotted a
course that brought the airplane to a
midpoint on the west Irish coast. Cliff,
den is a seaport and market town 20
miles southwest Of Westport.
Wireless Broken.
Shortly after the plane took the air
at 6:13, Greenwich time, Saturday af-i
ternoon III :13 a. m. Chicago time),
the propeller of the wireless sending
generator blew off. This explained the
silence of the radio instruments. The
receiving apparatus remained In work
ing trim, and throughout the flight
wireless signals were picked up.
A heavy fog enveloped the ship DUR
ing part of the flight and made navi-
CATION difficult and at times impossi-i
Bile.
The course flown was the same
bomber flew almost directly above the
spot where the little Sopwith floppel
into the Atlantic.
Garry Aviators on Shoulders.
I While thousand persons witnessed
the take-off, only handful of startled
villagers were within seeing distance
when the plane crashed to its landing.
Several fishing vessels off the west
coast sighted the airship as it swept
in from the Atlantic.
Within q few minutes after the land
ing Clifden's thousand inhabitants
were pressed about the plane. The av-
iators were carried to the town on the
shoulders of the enthusiastic residents.
Captain Alcock flashed to London the
news of completion of the flight The
Vickers-Vimy company has wired a re-
quest that he and Brown wait at Cliff
den for the arrival of mechanics who
will repair the plane. 1t is planned TO
have Alcock continue the fight to Eng
land and give an exhibition over Lon
don.
Both Stand the Journey Well.
Both Alcock and Brown stood the
Journey well.
Except for difficulties with fog and
the loss of our wireless propeller, the
trip was uneventful," Captain Alcock
said. Both engines performed in
splendid fashion. From the minute we
took off there appeared to be no doubt
of our success"
The plane was Quilt originally to
bomb Berlin. The armistice was
signed before it could be put into war
service 1t has a cruising radius of 2.
40 miles.