Arizona republican., 1919-07-07
STORY OF TRANS-OCEAN
 R-34 FLIGHT IS JULES
 VERNE TALE COME TRUE

 lutions. Forward engine being given q rest Air speed SS knots-land miles per hour made good 56.7. Course steered 29S degrees north, 62 degrees west, course made good 39 degrees north. T west. Wine northeast 15 Is miles per hour. Height, 1500 feet.
 Clouds Blot View
 Large banks of clouds came rolling along from the Atlantic graduai/ plotting out all view of the sea. At first we were above these clouds but gradually they rose higher and vv plowed our way into the middle of them.
 Seven a. m. Nothing but dense fog, estimated by Harris, the meteoro- logical officer, to go down within 30 feet of the water and to a height of about 5000 feet.
 Suddenly we catch glimpse of the sea through hole in the clouds and it is now easy to see we have slight drift to the south which is what was estimated by both Scott, the captain, and Cooke, the navigating officer.
 A few minutes later we find our selves above the clouds. our height still being 1900 feet and beneath. a cloudy sky, with clouds at about 5000 feet We are therefore in between two layers of clouds a condition which Alcock and Brown found themselves on more than one occasion on their recent flight from west to east.
 An excellent cloud horizon now presents itself on all sides of which Cooke takes advantages. These ob- servations if the cloud horizon is quite flat, ought to prove valuable rough guide but cannot be regarded as accu- rate unless one can also obtain a check on the sun by day or the moon ana stars by night.
 Fifty Mile Error Possible
 Cooke reckons it is easy to mako as much as 50-mile error in locating ones position when using cloud hori- zon as substitute for a sea horizon.
 'Seven-thirty a. m Breakfast in crew space up in the keel consisted of cold ham, one hard boiled egg each, bread and butter and hot tea. We breakfast in two watches, generally about 15 in each.
 The first watch for breakfast was Scott, Cooke, Pritchard, admiralty air plane expert; Lansdowne, lieutenant commander United States airship ser vice; Shotter, engineer officer; Harris. meteorological officer, myself and half the crew.
 Music with Meals
 Conversation during breakfast r-- verted to the recent night up the Bal tic and in the adjoining compartment the graphaphone was entertaining the crew to the latest jazz tunes such as The Wild, Wild Women
 '.E'lpVa0 a m Still TaIo Cttr way through the fog at 1900 feet Sea
 completely hidden by clouds and no visibility whatsoever Stopped for ward and two aft engines and now run : ming on only the two wing engines at 1900 revolutions. These are giving us an air speed of 90 knots or 33.6 miles pei hour. This is the airship's most efficient speed as she only consumes on the two engines 25 gallons of pelrot per hour.
 Wind is east, seven miles per hour, and so we are making good forty miles per hour and resting three engines
 Cooke is now on the top of tho { airship taking observations of the sun, !, using the cloud horizon with sex
 tant. The sun is visible to him but nos to us.
 us. The top of the ship being S5 feet above us down here in the fore control cabin.
 "Our position is reckoned to be lati- } tude 55 degrees 10 minutes north and longitude II degrees 40 minutes west
 which is equivalent to 400 miles from our starting point at East Fortune. and ; 200 miles out in the Atlantic from the northwest coast of Ireland : We are in wireless touch with East EOrfnnG t'llfdpn m ho nr Ireland, and Ponta del Gada, Azores, 2 and messages wishing us good luck are l received from air ministry. H. M. s.
 Queen Elizabeth and others r Excellent Beef Stew" : Eleven -fortyfive a. m. Lunch. Ex- cellent beef stew and potatoes, choco- late and cold water.
 The talk as usual was mainly shop. e dealing with such problems as the dis Il tribution of air pressure on the western y side of the Atlantic, what winds were likely to be met with, what fog we II should run into, the advantages of di . I rectlonal wireless for navigational pur-
 poses, cloud horizons and the like
 "Twelve-noon. Watch off duty It turned in for their routine four hours g sleep before coming on for their nex; . period of duty-only two hours in this y case, as it is the first of the two dog st watches.
 d Each Man Has Hammock l. The sleeping arrangements consist 90 or hammock for each of the men of 1t watch, suspended from the main ridge l. girder of the triangular internal keel
 which runs from end to end of tne st ship.
 -o1 Tn this keel are situated the S1
 petrol tanks, each of Il gallons ca -s pacity; also the living quarters for of Is ficers and men and storing arrange. ,e ments for lubricating oil for the en Is zines, water ballast, food and drinkine DO water for the crew. The latter is quit, 10 considerable item as will be seer Id from the following table of weights: -s Petrol 4,so0 gallons, 35.s00 pounds . 15.S tons.
 "On, 2,070 pounds g tons.
 Water three tons. 10 Grew and baggage, 4 tons. ae Spares. $50 pounds, 2 tons. ,o Drinking water, 800 pounds. AZ tons ,e Total, 24.32 tons. ,e Life Is Enjoyable ot Life in the keel of a large rigid air " ship is by no means unpleasant. Tber
 IS very little noise or vibration excep ~, when one is directly over the powe 'i units-a total absence of wind and ex y cept in the early hours of dawn greate " warmth than in the surrounding at
 mOsphere.
 ne Getting into ones hamock is ratne 'o. an acrobatic feat, especially if it i eo slung high but this becomes easy wit us praetice-preventing ones self fror ne falling out is thing one must b
 careful about in service airship lik ge the R-34. There is only a thin cute C. cover of fabric on the underside q