Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-06-19
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$500 900 PRIZE
lcock and Brown Land at CIifden,
Ireland, Sunday Morning, End
ing I 500 Mile Jump


" Brown, in their Vickers-Vimy BIZ
Jlane, landed at Clifden, Ireland, on
unday morning.
This completes the first nonstop
lirplane flight across the Atlantic.
ieir trip from ST. Johns, N. f., was
.ade in sixteen hours, twelve minutes.
The landing was made at $40 Brit
5h summer time In taking the ground
he machine struck heavily and the
useIage ploughed into the sand.
FLY THROUGH FOG
Neither Of the occupan was in
ured.
Much Of the flight was made
through fog with an occasional driz-
lie. This hampered the airmen con-
.derably.
Capt Alcock explained the silence
of his radio instrument by saying that
ne wireless propeller blew off soon
ifter leaving Newfoundland.
Word came from Clifden Sunday
afternoon that the pilot and navigator
yere leaving for Galway, whence
Lieutenant Brown planned to travel
)y train to London, arriving there on
Tuesday
Capt. Alcock hoped to be able to fly
London in the machine as soon as
t could be repaired. 1t was planned
have him give an exhibition over
london, if possible.
AWAIT OFFICIAL OBSERVER
The aero club in London received a
message from Clifden soon after the
%ans-Atlantic flyers landed, which
tated that they had completed the
flight in sixteen hours and twelve min
utes. They requested instructions from
he club.
In reply the club telegraphed:
Keep machine intactuntil observer
srrives."
The air ministry stated that GER
ain marks were put on the airplane
It Newfoundland which must be Off
ally identified by member of the
pyaI air force before the fight is de-
Jared to have been officially com
)eted.
1t was said at the ministry that it
vas probable one of it's officials would
cave Dublin in an airplane to relieve
A1cock and Brown 1t was hardly be-
ieved that the machine could be re-
Jaired before several days and it was
.hought that both the aviators would
proceed to England by train.
Alcock and Brown "stood the trip
well.
FLIGHT 1860 MILES
Clifden, Ireland, is 43 miles north
west of Galway and is situated on the
inlet of Ardbear harbor. From ST.
Tohn's to Galway is approximately
1860 miles.
2 The flight of the Viceks-Vimy BIZ
plane across the Atlantic was one of
three recent daring achievements by
lirmen.
To Capt. Alcock and Lieut.. Brown
yoes the honor of having made the
first nonstop air passage of the At
antic, the achievement going to the
credit of Great Britain.
The Atlantic had already been
spanned in an air journey, by Ameri-
IN naval officers in the seaplane NC-4
With a stop at the Azores enroute from
Newfoundland to Lisbon, Portugal the
journey beginning May 16 and ending
Way q.
HAWkER'S DARING ATTEMPT
Less successful, but no less daring
chan Alcock's fight, was the recent
fight by two other British airmen,
Harry G.. Hawker and Lieut.. Com
mander Mackenzie Grieve On May
I9 they covered more than half the
distance across the Atlantic. For
learly a week they were given up for
Jst, but finally turned up safe on
board a small craft which took them
almost to Ireland before the news
of their rescue was relayed ashore.
The successful fight of the British
irplane and the American seaplane
ere made in pursuance Of different
phases of experiment in the problems
Of the air. Elaborate precautions were
aiken to guide the NC-4 by destroyers
placed at frequent intervals, the aim
being not so much to make a record
as to establish the practicability Of
Toss-ocean traffic by air under condi-
tions of comparative safety.
PRIZE is $4,000
The attempt of Hawker and the sue
cessful flight of Capt. Alcock and
Lieut.. Brown were made for a prize
Of $4,000 offered by the London Daily
Mail The idea was to make contri-
)ution of moment to the practical side
of air navigation, but the appeal to
che competitors was in no small meas
ure to their sporting instinct, the fly.
ers running strong chances Of bring
lost at sea if anything happened ss
their machine.
"A comparison of the records shows
that the NC4 carried five men 2,15C
miles in 26 hours 81 minutes, while