Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-16
TRIAL FLIGHTS
INDICATE PLANES
WILL CROSS SEA
Flights From Halifax to New
FoundIand in Face of High
Winds Evidence That Big
Flight TO Be Success,
(By w. Z. BeaZelD
(Staff Correspondent of the New
York World and Albuquerque


Journal)
Especial psPArcA MORNING JouaNALl
Trepassey, N. F., May 1.-THE past
performances of the two naval sea-
planes which left here today on the
long flight to the Azores speaks wen
for their success. The performances
of NC-1 and NC-3 on the flight from
Halifax appear all the more gratifN-
ing when the winds through which
they came are considered in perspec;-
i've on the day after. The One had a
wind that came from 3 degrees west
of north practically the entire time
from Halifax The Three had winds
from the north, south, east and north
northwest.
These are winds that have been
common throughout the month that
Hawker and Raynham, the British
flyers, have been in St. Johns, dur
ing which time they have from day
to day delayed their start across the
Atlantic because conditions were in
suspicious
Hawker and Raynham have single
engined machines but both have de-
clared their firm faith in that type,
as contrasted with the multi-engined
and have insisted that the additional
weight of extra engines is in itself a
menace to success in the trans-atlan-
tic flight.
Today the United States navy's One
and Three offer evidence that they
can come serenely through winds that
held the single engined planes on the
ground.
More than that. they have come at
speeds far above official expectations
as expressed in orders published April
Is. The estimated speed through the
air was sixty miles an hour, with
greater or less speed, according to the
amount of wind with or against the
syaplanes.
None of the winds between Halifax
and Trepassev was with the planes
All were strongly against them, YET
the One maintained an average speed
of 1872 miles an hour, and Three of
| rs miles.
The sole physical evidence that thew
| had made a 460-mile flight was to be
| found in a bent aileron of the one
| and a lealy gravity tank of the Three
| This was established today, when
careful surveys we're made, and bare
| ly an hours work was necessary 10
| put the boats in complete readiness
! for q new take-off.
Proves Planes and Men,
/ For purely teCnnlcal reasons Wy
! pushei propeller of the One wa'
shifted which put 1t on a parity with
| the Three,
The impression must not be gainet
| that the Nos had an easy time OF II
| On the contrary. they had harder
work than had been anticipated, ant
that they came through as they did !!
| but a new confirmation of their st,
periority in a mechanical way, ant
of the high professional quality D
i the men in charge of them. The rec
ord Of the boats, ii may be said, ma
! greatly emphasized the opinion in thu
navy that the multi-engined boat u
i decidedly the type that must be da
pended on to cross the Atlantic.
This. so far as the British venture
is concerned, is but another way o
success for the Sopwith and Martin
syde machines. AS for the HandIey
page bomber which has arrived a
st. Johns, it is interesting to knoN
that only one of scores of messages o
; congratulations received TO-DAY cam
from British sources. This was iron