The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-27
MOSLEY FLIES FOR
A NEW MARK TO-DAY
Winner Of Pulitzer Trophy at
1853 Miles an Hour Aims at
1913 Miles or Better.

A comparatively gentle but persistent
wind blowing from west OF north at
right angles across q measured mile on
Mitchell Field. Mineola, yesterday. pre-
vented Capt. Corliss c. Mosley from at
tempting to smash the worlds speed
record in the army Verville with a 500
horsepower Packard motor. This morn
ing at 8 o'clock he will try ii If weather
conditions are favorable.
Capt. Mosley waited all day beside
his machine, which won the Pulitzer
trophy on Thanksgiving by averaging
1873 miles an hour. AS the record Capt.
Mosley is aiming at, one OF 1913 miles
an hour, sustained for one mile by Capt
Bernard de Romanet of France, is a de-
cidedly hard mark TO beat, the army
officials are anxious to have ideal con-
ditions.
Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, Glen
Curtiss. j. G. Vincent and many others
prominent in aviation also waited for
the beating Of the French mark IS re-
garded as a matter Of prime Importance.
not as a sporting matter but as an indi-
cation that Americas war airplanes and
motors are the best designed and fastest
in the world
Capt. Mosey explained that he
thought the reason why the plane had
not done even better in the race on
| Thursday was that the motor had not
thoroughly warmed up to its work.
Calls Plane Wonderful Ship.
She's a wonderful ship" he said en-
Enthusiastically, but l really don't think
she did her best IN the race. l flew
about for some time before passing the
starting mark, but couldn't seem to get
the big motor really warmed up The
oil IaF nF ..
race, and instead Of turning over at
1900 revolutions a minute. as was in
tended, she made only 100 revolutions
or course this cut her speed down enor-
mously. She heated to only about so
degrees Centigrade during the race"
Further questioning ELECTED the fact
that Capt. Mosley had flown the Veryllle
only once before he took off In the
Pulitzer race. He went abroad as re-
lief pilot for Major r. w. Schroeder in
the Gordon Bennett race, but never had
an opportunity to fly the fast plane.
Tomorrow he will go up in her for
the third time. The flying OF such a
plane requires the greatest skill owing
to the fact that it will not remain in the
air while travelling under eighty or more
miles an hour.
Capt Mosley learned to fly at Tours
in 1918 and got to the front as a pilot
in the Twenty seventh Squadron of the
First Pursuit Group and brought one
German plane down Officially"
Fast Time Made in Trials.
Time trials yesterday for one mile Of
Capt. II. Il. Hartney's plane, which fin
ished second in the Pulitzer race, gave
1t an average speed of approximately 1913
miles an hour during east and west
bound flights over the measured mile.
Lieut. St Clair Street, winner of fourth
place in an Orenco 800 horsepower
Wright motored plane, sent his ship over
the same course at LAT miles an hour
and Lieut.. John p. Roullot in a De
Haviland with a 400 horsepower Liberty
motor made 129 miles an hour.
The Aero Club of America. under
whose auspices the race was run. Off
cially notified the Aero Club of southern
California that its representative, Capt
Mosley. had won the race. The trophy
was formally presented to Capt Mosley
at n dinner given for him last night by
Grover c. Looming, aeronautical en-
gineer, in the New York Yacht Club.
Those at the dinner included Major
Gen. Charles T. Menoher, chief of Air
Service. L. S. a; Brig. Gen. Mitchell.
chief of operations of the Air Service F..
Capt T. r. Craven, director Of naval
aviation William c. Potter, Ralph Pu-
liter, donor of the trophy; Col Thur
man II. Bane. chief of engineering di-
vision, o. s. Air Service Capt. Hartney
Lieut.. st. Clair Street. Lieut.. b. G. Brad
ley u. S. NJ c.. Major A. NJ. Christie
Henry NJ. Crane, J. G.. Vincent, George
II, Houston, president OF the Wright
Aeronautical Corporation; Caleb S.
Bragg, David H. McCulloch, Edward Nc
Donnell. Maurice q. Cleary. Walter Z.
Jacob and A. Z. Looming