Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-05
Tempest Defied
And Conquered
By Mail Pilots
Airmen Conquer Elements in
Cross-Country Flights With
Pictures of Dempsey.
Carpenter Fight.

Battling through the fierce Gle
ments of stormy atmosphere
rain, wind and poor visibility-ai,
mail pilots retained Sunday tn
standard Of the service in speed rec
ords by quick dispatch of the Car,
pentier-Dempsey fight pictures tc
western cities.
Flying in relays from Chicago tc
North Platte. three air mail pilots
defeated speedy time made by Frank
Clark in Fokker, bound for Los
Angeles.
Clark and Air Mail Pilot "Tex'
Marshall left Chicago simultane-
ously at o'clock Sunday morning
Pictures carried by the air mail
arrived in Omaha at 1919 p. M. Sur<
day.
Clark made the Ak-Sar- Ben field
in his Fokker 80 minutes later and
remained in Omaha until o'clock,
when he hoped off for North Platte
Mail Planes Relay Time.
Following is the relay time of air
mail planes with the respective
pilots:
Pilots Arrived. Pilots Departed
Chicago
................. Marshl. Ia
MarshI, s:.s m. Smith. s:45 a. m.
Omaha
smith. Is:lsp. m, collyer, 1872 p. m.
North Platte
Collyer. sos p. m.
From North Platte to Rock
Springs, Wyo., the pictures were car
ried by Union Pacific train No. S.
An air mail plane at Rock Springs
resumed the flight with the pictures
to the Pacific coast.
Heavy rains through Iowa and
Nebraska hindered the flights. While
Pilot Clark tried to escape the storm
at high altitude, air mail pilots few
low.
Race from Chicago to Omaha.
The fight between Chicago and
Omaha was a literal race between
Clark and the air mail pilots.
Clark and Marshall left Chicago at
the same time Sunday morning.
Clark climbed high, while "Tex"
Marshall hugged terra firma for good
Both lost sight of each
other. Three minutes after Marshall
TAXED across the air mail station at
Iowa City. Air Mail Pilot Smith
hoped off with the fight pictures
for Omaha Meanwhile, the intrepid
Clark in his trusty Fokker was
speeding somewhere on a zigzag
course over Iowa.
At 1919 Smith landed in Omaha, |
and trasferred the pictures to Coll |
yer, the log flyer" Where Clark
vas puzzled the air mail pilots.
Collyer was to take the pictures to |
North Platte and then return to Om-
,ha. ..
Said William Votaw, superintend-
mt of the Omaha air mail station:
I'll leave a searchlight playing on
he flag so you'll know the direction
If the wind tonight when you re-
urn" /
Leave nothing lighted for me-
-entured Collyer. 'I'll hit the winds
ii right !
Cuts Through Storm. !
And out through the tempest
topped Collyer in his ship. He
truck the worst part of the storm.
cor 100 miles he cut through windy
ain, flying low. Wind banks did
lot deter him from his path. The
airing pilot remembered similar
torms he had encountered on the
oggy run between New York City
nd Washington, and "for the good
t the service" he ventured on-on-I
n. through the fierce beating of the
ain.
Collyer landed at North Platte at
:05 and waited 40 minutes for some
ign of Clark, before he began his
eturn trip to Omaha.
Fer the last 100 miles into Omaha
,ollyer pierced the same wind and !
ain storm he had encountered on
ne way to North Platte. He few =,
w for fair visibility and at 6:28 ,
lxied into the air mail hangar here,
victor over the tempestuous ele-
tents of a storm.
No further word had been heard .
| Omaha of Pilot Clark after he left
lie air mail station. /.
Air mail pilots hoped to have pic
Tres of the Carpenter Dempsey
ght by this morning.
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