The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-16
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CHANGED BY IT.
MEANS OF s. SAILS
While Flying rs reat AIti-
tude Ice | : ned on the
Parts of Their Machine So
They Had to Chip 1t Off
With Knife - Their Ma
chine Was Badly Damaged
in Landing in Ireland Bog.

London, June l6.--London celebrated
to-day the achievement OF the two Brit
ish airmen who yesterday completed the
first nonstop trans Atlantic flight,
meanwhile preparing for formal re-
ception to the air victors, Captain John
Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur w.
Brown.
Formal examination Of the Vickers-
Vimy bombing type airplane, in which
the two men flew 1850 nautical miles
in 10 hours and IL minutes from st.
Johns, n. F., to Clifden, near Galway,
Ireland, has been completed by aero club
officials, who found the seals intact on
the marked part of the airplane, thus
officially establishing the authenticity
of the flight.
Meanwhile, the aviators, tired but
happy, are on their way to London and
may reach here. tomorrow Both are
well, but Lieutenant Brown, the navi-
gator Of the plane, suffered bruises on
the nose and face when the machine
landed in bog. The biplane was badly
damaged and may have to be disman-
tied
Features of the trip we're the carry
ing OF the first aerial mail across the
Atlantic and the transportation of two
mascots, a dog and cat.
Enthusiasm over the success of the
trip has not been accompanied by any
minimizing of the great dangers the ayi-
ators encountered. Once, the airmen said,
they barely escaped being plunged into
the sea when the machine went into
fiat spin Early in the fight the half
gale in which they took off from St.
Johns tore off the propeller that drove
the wireless dynamo and made radio
communication impossible At the same
time, Lieutenant Brown said, stay wire
broke, but of this he did not speak to
his companion until they landed. Cap
tain Alcoclx said he would have turned
back had he known this.
Bad weather accompanied by fog, per-
mitted only three observations for lay
ing the course, while sleet stopped the
working of the petrol indicator.
Captain Alcock, describing his expe-
rience while flying at an altitude of H..
900 feet, said: ut was hailing and
showing The machine became covered
with ice by six o'clock in the morning
and remained so until an hour before we
landed My radiator shutter and water
temperature indicator were covered with
ice four or five hours Lieutenant Brown
continually had to climb up in the fusl-
age to chip off the ice with knife. The
air speed Indicator also gave trouble, be-
ing full of frozen particles which came
out when we descended to lower alti-
tude an hour before landing"
Captain Alcock said the Vickers COM
pany was sending two men to salvage
the damaged biplane, but he expressed
the opinion that the job would require
several men and that they would have To
Law track to get the machine out of the
bog.
The aviators said they did not feel
hungry during the flight but were cx-
tremely thirsty.
"For time, Captain Alcock said, rvs
spoke to each other through the COM
munlcation telephone, but these broks
down after four hours and we had to dis
card them, Then had to shout to Dieu-
tenant Brown. Most of our converse.
tion" consisted of tapping each other
on the shoulder and going through mo-
tions of drinking"