The Washington herald., 1919-07-07
Biggest Air Liner Mu
Port m Safety, Unds
Own Power, After Kxvy
Spends Night Answe
S o S Calls.
TO FLY OVER CAPITAL
SOMETIME TOM0RROW
Living Conditions Aboard
Super HBhmp" ResembIe
Ship Ge-Crew Recmds
In Log Wonderful V~
Ut Bergs and Ice EeIds

Roosevelt Field. Nlp~,A
Jury e-TriumphfnE ov-- -x
and adverse winds. Rs k.&.-
OF the air. arrived at her .ntr,,
place on this field at s.s4 o-,ocs ~,
morning. Just BE bourr s,d 49,
minutes after her 6pp-rt.u, 49,,
East Fortune. near Edinb.rrxh So
land
IN Tuesday morning tbe htx -
VIII start on the return tim 49,,
by way Of Philadelphia Bartr,,r,
ana Washington. At the x,s,,,.i
Capital she viii b pzns,x,,.. =.
give the nations lawnak-r. ana o.
ers chance TO form a co-.t -.
OF the aerial passenger ear
future.
An electrical storm wh,, ~..
The field about SO O'Clock Tins ,
ming endangered the SAFETY o, -.
oInSlbh. and all SPECTATOR v,-,
oered off the field. as n WAS 60,
lh@t q flash Of lightning str1li,- IN.
great gas bag might cause a aAn-
gerous explosion
Lands I'm Parscbute.
In order to superv1se IN. sz
fA' MAJ J. l. NJ Pruchsrd. of
the R-Sfs crew. made f. nar.ch,,,.
reap from a height OF about Loo fa.,
ana landed safely. As som g.. IA,
touched the ground he took cb.,-,
OF The n1oonng which was accom-
plshed without a hftch.
When the Airship landed she h.o
feit IN her storage tanks petrol s,,-
hcaent for a flight Of about forty
minutes. The total distance oor-r.a
according to the log gwen out bv c.
Maitland. representative OF the Re-,
ish Air Ministry on board. wa, an
nautical miles.
weather conditions verr unt.v,--
able for the fight almost from "a.
start from East Fortune las. w.
nesday morning at I;c o'cSoc,I. Gre..-
wich time.
Runs Int Ckcods
Sioae c4eAred The nom
coast OF ireland and swung out ox.r
INC Atlantic large banks Of cl,,,,.
biotted out view Of the sea Az o.,
The ship kept clear of the cgooax -.
lying high. but they soon rose htxser
alo sI she was compelled TO nlpx
IOush them- Later, the ayishorx
IouIio themselves between two laye-,
ot clooos' one at about LOO feet and
Ihe other at about sOop f4et
Sailing through this upchar,~5
fairyiand. the crew had their -.
breakfast, consisting of cold h.rs
hard boiled eggs, bread and butts-
and hot tea A graphophooe. nav
ing The Wild Wild women-- ana
other jazz tunes, gave q cabaret air
10 the simple meal m c4oodland- Tp@
thirty men on board brealfasted in
two watches.
Thirty Knots Best spe-A
Up to noon OF the first day, the
airship made speed OF about thirty
knots an hour. never using all ave
engines at one time. and using Only
two part OF the time These raw.
speed of thirty knots an hour.
which was found to be the most ef-
ficient speed. as she consumed only
twenty-five gallons Of petrol an hour
with two engines running Later n
the day the speed was run Up %
forty-nine miles an hour.
About o'clock in the evening. rns
airship came into view Of the blus
sky with an ocean OF neecy ciouds
stretching out on all sides below. An
hour later the clouds had closed IN
once more. 1t was dark. cold ana
wet in these cloud banks and at tarnss
the air was ''bumpy."
The first night On the Atlantic vsz
very dark. but the airship vas a.
well lighted as an ocean liner, and
there was no difbculty in resdlnx
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