Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-17
|ALCOCK AND BROWN
| COMPLETE DIRECT
TRIP OVER OCEAN
Land in Irish Bog After Air
Voyage of 10 Hours and
II. Minutes-Machine Is
Badly Damaged

Captain OHM Alcock and Lieuten-
ant A. w. Brown, British flyers, who
left Newfoundland Saturday in a
-Vimy biplane for a direct
nonstop flight across the Atlantic,
reached ireland Sunday after a diff
ficult trip Of sixteen hours and
twelve minutes, thereby accomplish
ing the first direct fight across the
ocean.
they landed near Galway, Ireland,
in a bog which Alcock mistook for
beautiful meadow. The biplane
was so badly damaged that all
thought of Alcock's flying in it to
Lieutenant Brown went to London
by train and boat.
The biplane will be taken apart
and shipped to the Vickers plant.
The first men to sight the Wick
ers machine approaching Cllfden alt.
er it's journey from Ne saa ar bie
were an Australian soldier on ms
honeymoon, who was gazing out OF a
| hotel window, and a farmers boy
tending hogs. The machine sudden
ly doomed out of the morning mist
and circled over the town, whereupon
the two who had seen it spread the
word and crowds began to gather.
When the Vickers-Vimy machine
landed. Lieutenant Brown, the nav1-
gator, said to Captain Alcock:
what do yoN think of that Tor
fancy navigating?" and the pilot OF J,
The two men who had just COM
pleted an epoch-making voyage then
shook hands.
A few hours after landing Alcock,
smartly attired in a. British navy
lounge uniform; smoking fSrnngb a c sSgsaf
of congratulatory kilograms. sm1l-
my Eyes. I'm glad we did it. We got
I'D against hell to begin with the
cally all the way over. Five hours rs
after the start we unsuccessfu!ly
tried to climb from the clouds and
reached height of 1000 feet. That
was not the first of our troubles.
they began when half an hour after
dynamo generating electricity Tor
the wireless was fractured. Don't
kno WHOM. Our radio transmitter
was useless. We received no 9,d m
formation from any source ana oI9n
exchange a single wireless signal.
GALWAY. Ireland, Sunday, June
| 15,-(By the Associated Press.)-
The correspondent endeavored to get
| Captain John Alcock to describe the
| impressions he had during the flight,
while the aviator was at Clifden to-
day.
said Captain Alcock. 'It ds curious
to be able to say that I had mo sense
Of remoteness. I have done consld-
cradle night flying and any sense OF
loneliness has worn off long ago
do not think that either of US had
any thought of what we were flying
over, being merely intent on getting
across.
1--WE wanted to get the job done,
and I can tell you we were jolly. well
pleased when we saw the coast.
'I believe the great secret OF long
distance flying under such condi-
tions as we experienced is to nurse
your engine" he continued. ST never
opened the throttle once. The ma
chine itself has speed of ninety
miles an hour. but with out opening
teh throttle and with following
wind, we averaged 120."
Emphasizing the bodily comfort
of the passage, Captain Alcock said
'I wore electrically heated clothes
as an experiment, but the machine
itself was so snug that it was un-
necessary to switch on the current.
The correspondent asked Captain
Alcock whether he regarded his
flight as having beaten that of the
American seaplane NC-4. To this
Captain A1cock replied:
81 could not say anything but
what is good of the Americans.
have been treated very kindly by
tAe Americans since I have been
over there" (Meaning in Newfound-
land.)