The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-08
ONE FLYER
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| miles-was expected to consume al
least twelve days. There will be nc
night flying. -
Lieut.. J. B. Machee, driving No. IT
De Haviland 4. got away at exactly
1880. Two minutes later Brig. Gen
L. E. o. Charlton, British sattache
took the air in No. 3, a Bristol.
All of the planes entered have tested
! more than 100 miles an hour.
Across o. S. and Back.
The race will be across the CONT
more than. $500 miles. There are
twenty-one control stations. where
each plane will stop for thirty min
utes. Planes remaining more than
4S hours at a station will be elm
mated. The stations are:
Binghamton, N. Y, Rochester, N
z, Buffalo. N. Y, Cleveland. Ohio,
Bryan, Ohio. Chicago, Rock Island
ILL.,, Des Moines, Iowa, Omaha, Neb.,
st. Paul, Nebr.. North Platte, Nebr.,
Sidney. Nebr.. Cheyenne. Wyo., Raw
Inns, Wyo., Green River, Wyo, Salt
Lake City. Battlemount, New, Reno
New, Sacramento, Cal, and San Fran
CISCO.
Maj. Gen.. Thomas NJ. Barry, com
mander OF the Department of the
East, started the flyers from Mineola
Gen. L. E. o. Charlton, who is air at
tache OF the British embassy, was per-
mitted to enter the race as a matter
of international courtesy. His ma
chine is equipped with q Rolls Royce
motor and will furnish a good COM
parison with the Liberty motor, with
which most of the other planes are
eng1ned in a long distance test. t-7
First Off at Frisco.
San Francisco, Oct. S.-Lieut ]. P
Richtor, plotting a De Haviland air
q
observer, leaving the ground at 6:51
a. m today. was first of the western
aviators to HOP off, in the 1900 mile
race to Mineola, N. Y.
Sixteen 1eather-clad pilots and
eleven similarly clothed observers
the Preside aviation field before
dawn this morning to await the word
that would send them off at two
minute intervals on the first leg of a
5.400-mile journey to Mineola. N. Y.
and return. The sixteen pilots in
tors who had won distinction at camps
in this country and cadet ayiators
who did not win their double wings
before the armistice. Late-Friday the
winner of the first half of the race
expects to be in Mineola, 1000 miles
away.
Carefully Groom Machines.
All night long mechanics gave last
touches to the machines and guarde
them in preparation for the flight
Thruout the night the field was ablaze
with light as the machines worked
and the otherwise stiffness of the
hours before dawn was broken By
engines being given a final tuning
The western aviators will attempt
to beat fifty fellow flyers who were
| starting today from. the eastern: termi-
nus. The westerners. it was conceded
a wa hafr A1e-A
ming of the great race. Almost imme.
diately they will be compelled to clint
| high and their first day will find then
sailing over the high Sierras of Cali
fornia and Nevada and the WasatcE
mountains in Utah. Unbroken coun
landings are always precarious anS
often fatal. The fasteners will hav,
this test of mountains late in thei
journey. altho the winner is expected
to make the 2,700 mile transcontihent
al trip in less than twentyfour flying
hours. --.l.---~ - =
| Position by Lottery.
| Lottery decided the manner ii
which the machines were to start
| The first machine was in the cente
of the field. The second was on hi
left and the third upon his right, an,
SO on. A second row with the sam
placing of starters completed the en-
tries.
Arrive at Sacramento.
Sacramento, Oct. S.-Lieut. E c
Kiel, plotting a De Haviland machine
/ landed at Mather flying field, Sacra
| Inento. rs miles from San Francisco
7 IN 81 minutes elapsed time from Sal
Francisco today, the first aviator t
| reach this resting point in the rae
from San Francisco to Mineola, n
Y. Others arrived at intervals of
few minutes. After breakfasting an
| taking on supplies, the aviators vii
resume the dash. commencing east o
here the ascent over the snow cappe
Sierra Nevada. The next stop prob
ably will be at Reno.
y Wilkesbarre, Pa. Oct. S.-Thre
planes entered in the trancontinenta
air derby were forced to land nea
here today. One of them was bein
piloted by Lieutenant Taylor He sal
he had lost his bearings After receiv
ing information he took to the air an
headed for Binghamton.
The other two planes are still i
fields near Sugar Notch.
Rochester, n. Y, Oct. s.-Aeroplan
1 No. II in the transcontinental rae
left here for Buffalo at 1850 p. n
today after half an hours rest. No. 8
left at practically the same time.
| Reno, New. Oct. 8.-Flying low an
close together two of the airplanes !
the transcontinental flight passed owe
Reno at $40 o'clock this morning
after making a successful trip owe
the Sierra Nevada from Matha fiel
at Sacramento. They landed on
field four miles east of Reno Thre
others followed.
Buffalo, Oct S.-The first flyer i
the coast to coast reliability run t
arrive in Buffalo was Lieut. B. Y
Maynord, flying Curtiss machine. H
landed at 1885. Lieutenant Colon,
Hartney landed at 1875.