The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1922-07-28

e. stern coast of Newfoundland. A
prize Of $4,000 had been offered to
the aviator who made the first nom
stop flight across the Atlantic ocean,
and dozen or so Britishers had gath.
cred there to make the attempt.
Among them was Captain AlcOck.
later Sir John Alcock. a famous ace
during the war, who plotted the first
English plane that bombed CONSTANT
nople. Captain Alcock. with navt.
gator, Arthur w. Brown, also knighte1
later, hoped off in June, 1919. and
astonished the universe by flying from
Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland, In
10 hours and II minutes.
1t was just six months later that
fate overlook this intrepid aviator.
While flying in France, merely taking
seaplane to an exhibition at Rouen,
he miscalculated his distance from the
earth, in a fog, and was instantly
killed when his plane struck the
ground.
One Of Captain Alcock's rivals ~
man who was equally well knoFn
among aviators. This was Harry Il.
! Hawker. Hawker was the first to hop
: off ut Newfoundland starting on May
: IS with Lieutenant Commander Mac
: kenze Grieve as navigator, In vain.
the next day, they waited for news Of
him In England. Hawker and his com
e rade and their plane had disappeared.
< People said that they had been
0 drowned in the ocean. But those who
knew the aviator said: "No; Harry
Hawker has got more lives than cat.
II II he hadn't, he would have been
I killed long before this. He's the
W luckiest airman that ever lived"
+ Sure enough, six days later Danish
he steamer. the Mary, came rolling into
ie port with Hawker and Grieve or
board. She had picked them up So
y miles off the coast of Ireland, floating
u along hanging to their frail craft
Us Hawker's luck still held
Sc A year later, July u, Hawker wen
o. aloft near the Hendon airdome, in Eng
u land, to test plane for the aeria
~ derby He was flying probably 400
IT feet up in the air when those who wer
- watching saw the plane suddenly cf
~ reen and come plunging to the eartl
al Hawker died in the arms of the docto
W. who had been hastily summoned.
ne coroner's jury found the accident ha
hu been due to n sudden stroke of para
'ai ysis which the airman had suffered
Jul His physician testified that Hawk
ma had long beer a victim of tuberculos
d Of the spine, and had been warnt
against flying
ur- Sir Ross Smiths Death.
'as During the year that Captain Alco'
gu. and Hnwker were busy with their
,no forts to fly across the Atlantic, anoth
N,s British aviator sprang into prom
Wv nence by plotting plane from Es
land to Australia. 1t was Ross Smit
later Sir Ross Smith, who had g.
my liant record for daring during the wa
eah few months ago, Sir Ross and
- brother, Sir Keith Smith, were &
nc ting ready to fly around the wor
They had completed their planes
IN the feat seemed almost accomplish
q Early one morning Sir Ross arrived
Brooklands where his machine W
n His brother was not at the field, a
q he went up with Lieutenant Bonn
n friend Of his, AT a Height of 81
feet above the ground the airman
q gan a series of evolutions that he
& gone through hundred times in or
u to test thoroughly every strut and
liz in his plane Those watching were
~ terested, but not alarmed, ana WI
M they saw the huge plane div
49, straight for the earth they only {
i n sidered 1t a special sort OF trial.
II Ross was killed instantly and Lieu
II ant Bennett lived but few NONE
# n after being put into an ambulance
And so the list continues. III
NH was Can't. A. c. Resnati, the TIA
aviator, who was killed when
N roni plane collapsed at Mineola. III
n were the Frenchmen, Vedrines
IN accomplished the feat of landing
$3.50 roof in his plane, who won nun
of aerial trophies for speed and
49,. tude. and who finally fell while fl
* in i,on' 20 - ,,,h, ,,,as /
tn,n while trying to fly bis plane low
as -, enable him to shout to his brothe
alton, 'aM .'a' NC "o'u ,.,oh ,,har ,
c uld ANia'ois "'e ",
/, ufa is the answer to It all. Is man
J four mas come uii"a'n ,s..,s -
II the III peri. ap' ~ pa' ~ !.
graph lesser hangers, ~ a'' 49, =
,nmal matter Of luck?