The Washington herald., 1919-10-12
MAYNARD ARRIVES AT
WEST COAST, WINNER :
OF CROSS-U. S. RACE
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OF CROSS-U. S. RACE
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Col. C. C. Brandt. of plane No. 4.
which crashed at Deposit. N. Y. We'd
nesday.
Maj. d. H. Crissey and sergt. Virgil
Thomas. whose plane: No 66, crashed
at Salt Lake City
| Lieut.. E. v. Wales, whose plane,
No. So. fell at Ovid Pass.
Worth d. Mcclure, observer for
Maj. A. L Sneed of piane No. "a
which made bad landing at Buffalo
Fl Stops Made.
Twenty-one stops were made in the
cross-continent flight. These control
stations" at which delays of al least
thirty minutes were required to per-
init thorough inspection Of, each ma
chine, were: Binghamton, Rochester,
Buffalo, Cleveland. Bryan, Chicaxo,
Rock Island, Des Moines, Omaha. 81.
Paul. North Platte. Sidney, Cheyenne,
Rawlins, Green River, Salt Lake City.
Salduro. Battle Mountain. Reno and
Sacramento.
While the competitors are required
to cross the continent again to COM
| plete the contest. the ocean-to-ocean
flight was generally regarded. in air
circles tonight as a race in itself
Second Flight Later.
Ofhcial announcement was made in
Washington that the second fight
would not be made before October 90
so that the planes may be thoroughly
overhauled and the landing fields
cleared OF the slower machines.
Maynard apparently was the win
ner as regards both-actual flying time
and elapsed time. but the official re-
suits will not be given out until all
the planes have completed the first
cross-country flight The various
awards will be made for endurance
and general dependability as well as
speed.
Maynard Gets Good Start.
The slower planes will be al
| lowed handicaps.
Maynard got away to good
start and led the field at the end
/ OF the first day. he increased this
lead to several control stations"
the second day. On the third day
| he was passed temporarily by
| Sratz and Kiel. but later made up
| lost ground and again took the
lead at the end of yesterday. Dur
ing the greater part of today's fly
| ing he was neck and neck with
| Spatz and Kiel. The latter were
| delayed by bad weather at Bing-
hamton. their last stop. however,
! and Maynard clinched his victory
{ by an exceptionally fast flight
! from Sacramento to San Francisco. D.
Spatz and Eiel encountered
! strong cross winds after they left
/ BinGnamton and for a time it was
! feared at Roosevelt Field they
| would be unable to complete fhe
| flight tonight. A plane sent out to
meet them was forced to put back.
! They kept at it and made their
landing after dusk.
Mrs. B. W. Maynard, wife Of the
| first transcontinental fiier to reach
Son Francisco. was at Roosevelt
/ Field here when she was told her
husband had completed his West
ward fight.
Wife Relieved.
Il am very glad" she said 1T
| is a great relief to have it over.
| The death of i've fiiers in the race
has naturally had a depressing cf-
! feet on me. I am glad Belvin was
successful"
Mrs. Maynard was watching the
planes maneuvering over the field.
| in company with her two daugh-
ters, Evelyn. 5, and Rosalie, T.
She was obviously nervous until
told of Maynard's success.
Describing his remarkable flight.
Maynard said:
'T attribute the success of our
flight to the Liberty motor. 1t GER
tainly has proved itself.
$1,000 Feet I'm Air Once.
We reached $4,000 feet crossing
Lake Tahoe today. which was the
highest altitude We made. 1t was
/ intensely cold at that height.
Most OF the time we flew at 1,500
( feet, where we averaged almost 120
miles an hour. The only piece of
had luck we had on the whole trip
was breaking the radiator at Chey-
canc. which delayed US yesterday
f"r half a day.
, "Crossing the Sierra Mountains
was the worst part of our trip. al
though had visions Of being
stranded when we ran into the low
| lying smoky fog covering the San
Francisco district"
LACuS DClNh NNOIIlDlC way va
riously known as the sky pilot" and
the flying parson," received his
aerial spurs in the most dangerous
job in France-airplane tester.
Had PerfIous Job.
Maynard never got to the front, but
he faced death more times than any
ACE" in the American army. 1t was
Maynard's duty to try out newly
arrived aircraft to see that every
thing was in good condition before
turning them over to the flight
commanders. II the plane was in
good condition, Maynard was safe.
II anything was wrong, it meant a
bad fall and perhaps death. He tested
several hundred machines in the
seventeen months he was in Franco
When the United States declared
war on Germany. Maynard was at
tending the Wake Forest Theological
I Seminary, in Raleigh, N. C. He was
Junior. but, during his vacations,
often occupied the pulpits of nearby
Baptist churches.
Father with Gen. Lee.
Maynard, who is but 2s, was not
subject to the draft because Of his
studying for the ministry and be-
cause of the fact he was married and
had two children But he could not keep
out OF II. His two younger brothers
enlisted as privates. His father was
with Lee in the civil war; Maynard
Joined up" in June. 1917. He was
soon in France. and in a short time
had been promoted from a private
to second lieutenant in the Air