The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-01
AERONAUTICs


As a result of the. great develop
ment Of aviation during the war.
rapid progress was made during the
year in the use of both diriaibies and
heavier than-air machines for COM
merciaf purposes. E;aEly in the year
IL became evident that there would
be great competition among the
larger nations In the development bf
peace time air service. The United
States and Great Britain took tho
lead in making tests of various Is pes
of ,aircrafts.
On April IL new airplanc record
vas made by q British army aviator.
wt1n- flsw from london 10 Paris
distance of Ala miles, in seventy-five
minutes On April II Major Macau-
10y a United States army aviator.
completed a fight FROM San Diego
California, TO Jacksonville. Florida
covering the distance at an average
speed of 81 miles an hour and with
four stops. On April 70, Captain f.
=. White. in an army plane. made
the first nonstop flight from Chica go
to New York. On April q, all re-
cords for endurance flights were
broken bysa Emitted States seq plane
which remained in the air. far more
than twenty hours while travelling at
"a sped OF sixty miles an hour
On May s. three United States
Navy sea planes started from New
York on the first transatlantic
fight By the way OF. Halifax, Nova
Scotia; Trepessay Bay. Kew found
land and the Azores. one--of these
nachines.s the NC-4 arrived at Lisbon.
Portugal, on May ~ having COM
pleted the first flight across the At
iantic in actual flying time OF twenty
six hours. forty seven minutes from
Newfoundland to Portugal. Fog
caused the other two planes TO lose
their course and abandon the flight
In the meantime, two British avia
Tors Harry C. Hawker and Lieutenant
Commander Mackenzie Grfeves left
Newfoundland on Nav is in the first
attempt to cross the Atlantic with
out stop. Engine trouble forced them
To descend $50 miles from ireland
and the aviators were picked up by
a passing vessel.
On May - Lieutenant Roget. a
French aviator made n nonstop
flight from Paris TO Rabat. Morocco,
distance of i1fs RIFLES. On June
Z. Adjutant Casale. a French aviator
established new record for altitude.
ascending 81 152 feet.
The first nonstop fight across the
I : by CAPTAIN John Alcock British
flyer and Lieutenant Arthur W.
Brown, his American navigator who
covered the 100 miles from New
foundfand to Ireland in Fickers
Nlmy machine in sixteen hours and
twelve minutes.
The British dirFible R-s4 carry
ing thirty-one persons. started from
Edinburgh on a trans Atlantic flight
10 New York on July - and reached
its destination on July s.ssThe R-s4
made the return trip without mishap
in three days and three hours. reach
ing England on July Is.
: Roland RhoIf. in n Curtiss tri-
plane. made a new altitude record
At Roosevelt field, New York, on
July 80 by rising TO height OF SO
200 feet and on September is he
broke his own record by ASCENDING
$3.50 feet.
A transcontinental airpsane race
was started simultaneously at San
Francisco and New York on October
s with SIXTY five competitors. Five
aviaters were killed during this race.
Lieutenant r. W. MAYNARD known
as the dying parscn." was the first
to cross the continent. arriving at
San Francisco on October. II. but
Lieutenant Alexander Parson was
declared the winner of the race. his
actual flying time from New York to
San Francisco and return being less
than that of any other contestant
On December 10. Captain Ross
.Sraith. ALI Australian. aviator, com
pietcd flight from England TO Aus
tralia. a distance OF I1.60o miles in
twenty EIGHT days winning a-prize of
sac. son ssEeress by t1sS 4ssstsxIasgn lestssrs
eminent fer the first flight between.
England and Australia completed
within thirty days.
DISASTER
In relief from the Appalling loss of