New Britain herald., 1921-02-25
MISSING AVIATORS
 RECALL 1910 STORY
Recent Aviation MiShap Similar
 to HaWley Plight

New York. Feb. 25.-Aviation's thrilling history, filled with adven- turous journeys in balloon and air plane, already contains a story par alleling the one created by the flight into the frozen fastnesses of northern Canada which has focused the news hungry readers of the world on the gently completed it.
 In 1910 two New York airmen, Alan R. Hawley and Augustus Post, were lost among the untrodden wilderness of Canada for seven days after travel ing nearly 1900 miles through the air from St. Louis in the balloon Am erica II.
 They floated northcastward for two days and two nights. crossing over the Great Lakes and beyond the out posts of which are few and far be- tween in the northland. Despairing of finding n suitable landing place, they brought their gas bag down into dense trees, ending a trip that VIC the Gordon Bennett trophy and set n new record for distance. and be- ginning a tramp over unknown land
 
 thrilling experiences in the air.
 Extricating themselves from the limbs of trees entangled in their has ket, Post and Hawley tramped along a stream and later around the hem of a lake, the woods were unpen- ertable and trackless. For four days and four nights they pushed south ward. through snow storms. rain and stabbing cold winds, and with little to eat. Hawley wrenched his knee and the pair stopped to rest at the first restful place they found-an old cave.
 There they prayed exchanged con- fidences to bc carried back by which ever one lived if either failed to get back home, and then took a fresh start. The next day they came upon d shovel-the first sign of civilization they had encountered-and few yards further tent.
 They spent the night in this tent and the next morning. going down to tho side of a lake they pierced tho air with yells of greeting. From across the water came a reply. and then two trappers in canoe. The trappers took the airmen down a river in canoes for two days until they reached Chioutime. a settle ment, from where they communicat- ed with the world they had left, and began their trip back to New York. They had left St. Louis October IT and the first word came from them October 26.
 4 balloon trip that ended above the North Sea, was made by Captain Won Schaeck during the 1909 Cor don Bennett race, whih started from Berlin. 4 passing steamer spied the x1 lA water, and lowed the balloon back to the coast of Norway with the rope secured to the stern of the ship and the balloon floating overhead.
 Being lost to the world was not a new experience to Lieutenant Walter Hinton, one of the three lieutenants who recently piloted the A-559S from Rockaway Air Station into Canada. He was a pilot on the NC-4. the fa- nous naval seaplane which made the first transatlantic air voyage. and was in the cockpit of that plane when it was lost out in the Gulf of MeNi- co in December, 1919.
 On that occasion the NC-4 left Galveston. Tex. early in the morning on an intended nonstop flight to Mo bile, Ala. Throughout the day and the night and part of the following day the famous seaplane was un- heard from. The government was making arrangements to send an armada of seaplanes and boats into the gulf to look for the missing craft. when a radio message from it was picked up in New Orleans.
 The NC-4 reported it had been forced to come down by low-hanging clouds off the southeastern coast of Louisiana. When on the water the wireless on the plane was not power full enough to carry many miles and communication was impossible until the craft took to the air again the following afternoon.