Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-14
READ AND CREW
OF. NC-4 REACH
HALIFAX AT 2.1O
Leave Chatham at 9.25 and
Fly at85-Mile Speed To-
wards New Foundland
Bu Associated Press.


fax time) from Chatham, Mass.
Allowing for an hours differ
ence in time between this port
and Chatham, the plane made
the flight of approximately 800
nautical miles in 3 hours and As
minutes.
Washington, May IA. = Lieut..
Commander A. C. Read plans to
stop the naval seaplane NC-4 at
Halifax for only few minutes dur
ing its flight from Chatham, Mass,
to New Foun dland. He so advised
a wireless message which was inter
cepted and relayed to the Navy De-
partment few minutes before 1
o'clock this afternoon.
Weather Conditions Improve
While weather conditions along
the route from Trepassey bay to the
Azores were improved to-day, me-
neurological experts at New Found
land held that they still were "un-
satisfactory" for the start of the sea-
planes NC-1-and NC-3 on their trans
Atlantic flight, according to dis
patches received at the Navy De-
partment.
Navy Flashes Word
The Navy Department communi-
Gated with the seaplane NC-4, from
Washington at Ills a. m. to-day,
received a reply from Commander
Read, and had broadcasted to Eu-
rope and to the west coast of the
United States the planes position in
three minutes elapsed time. The
communication was accomplished
without previous notice to any of
the stations involved.
Chatham, Mass, May 1.-THE
naval seaplane NC-4 left here at
9.25 a. m. to join the NC-1 and NC
at Trepassey, N. F., starting point
of the trans Atlantic flight. The
NC-4 was to fly to-day to Halifax.
The seaplanes~ 1850 and 1915 ac-
companied the NC-4 in the start of
her flight, leaving her about ten
minutes later.
While it was said that the NC-4
would stop at Halifax and would
not attempt to make the distance to
New Foundland in one flight, naval
authorities said it was not certain
that she would stay at Halifax all
night.
There was a possibility, it was
said, that should the engines work
properly, Lieutenant Commander A.
G. Read, in charge of the NC-4,
might decide to make only brief
stay in Halifax and resume his flight
from there for Trepassey tonight.
The easterly gale of the last three
days gave way to a light northwest
breeze to-day and the sky was clear.
Going IS Miles an Hour
Boston, May 1.-THE NC-4 re-
ported to the Navy Department here
that she passed Seal Island, Mass,
at 1120 a. m. The message said the
machine was making S5 miles an
hour.
Chatham, Mass, May 14.-The
C-5 flying 1000 feet high, passed
over the air station here at 1906
a. m. The balloon was ascending as
she disappeared over the course fol-
lowed by the seaplane NC-4. Wealth
er conditions were ideal and the C-5
was going at top speed.
Vineyard Haven, Mass, May IA
The C-5 passed over Vineyard
Haven at $40 a. M, apparently
headed for Chatham.
MOntauk Point, N. Y. May 1.-THE
navy dirigible C-5 left here to-day
on a flight to st. Johns. N. F., which
may be followed, if the coastal per-
formance proves satisfactory by an
attempt to fly across the Atlantic.
The balloon took the air at a. M,
and promptly attained her maximum
cruising speed of SO miles an hour,
which was expected to drive the big
bag" over the 1900 mile course to
New Foundland in "a hours.
Under command of Lieut. Com
mander Emery w. Coil, the CO took
a northeast course expected to carry
her over the naval air station at
Chatham, Mass, and thence along
the New England and Canadian
coasts to st. Johns. There Fighter
than-air" experts, put ashore from
the cruiser Chicago with spare parts,
tools and supplies of imitation gas
and fuel, await the "blimp," ready
to assist in preparing her for pos
sible 1000 mile, nonstop cruise to
the British Isles.
There was a possibility also naval
officers said, that the route of the
NC heavier-than-air machines via
Azores might be followed, reducing
the longest Jump" to approximately
1900 miles by making a stop at
Punta Del Gado.
Adoption of this route would give
the dirigible the benefit of the war;
ship patrol established for the sea-
planes, the plan being to start the
C-5 on her eastward passage after
the NC expedition has reached Eu-
rope or at least has completed the
New Foundland-to-Azo leg of it's
cruise.