New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Broken Water Jacket
Forces Plane to De-
scend at indianapolis
in Jump From Coast
Leaking Tank Is
Filled With Coffee
Fresh Attempt TO Span
Continent Will Be Made,
Army Officials Declare

DAfToN Ohio. Nov. : (By The As
sociated Press).--After laundering
their way three-fourths of the dis
tance across the United States, from
San Diego to indianapolis. through
storms and calm. darkness and light,
aboard the naonoplane T-2, Lieutenants
John A. Macready and Oakley G..
Kelly relaxed tonight after their
hazardous trip and related incidents
of their record breaking nonstop
flight of 1000 miles.
In futile effort to keep the plane in
the air the flyers poured their little
store Of soup and coffee into the leak
ing water tank.
The aviators were forced to land
their ship at Indianapolis at s:47
o'clock this norning, after they had
exhausted their water supply owing
to broken line. They borrowed a
plane and flew to Dayton early this
afternoon. Had they travelled ap-
proximately 700 miles further they
would have succeeded in their attempt
to cross the continent without stop
ping. Macready and Kelly, however,
are not entirely disappointed, for their
flight demonstrated that coast-to-
coast fight is possible, they declsred.
The mishap whieh forced the avi.
ators to descend this morning occurred
late yesterday, according to their con-
versations with officers at Schoen Field
at Fort Harrison, but they pushed on
through the night. hopeful that they
could at least break the nonstop flying
record il they were successful in reach
ing New York, their goal
The T-2 came down at Fort Harrison
at 9:15 and the two officers decided to
go on at once to Dayton to report to
army mir service officers at McCook
Field. Borrowing plane from Lieu
tenant j. N. Parker, they Departed for
Dayton and arrived here shortly after
noon,
Coffee Used as Cooler
Officers inspecting the plane this
morning found the following note.
which apparently had been written BY
lieutenant Kelly to his companion:
"Mac, another cylinder is leaking.
do not think we can 60 past Dayton.
Better put soup, coffee and all in
water tank"
Bad weather hindered progress Of
the fight in early stages, and for more
than eleven hours the aviators were
forced to fight their way through q
thunderstorm, low clouds and heavy
cross winds. For a time, they said,
they held little hope that they would
be able to get across New Mexico be-
cause weather conditions were so bad.
Darkness overlook them in New
Mexico, and the first ray Of sunshine
was sighted at st. Louis this morn
ing, Macready said.
Neither pilot suffered any i'll effects
from the trip, but both were greatly
fatigued eve are feeling fine," Mac
ready said tonight, "and / would be
willing to take another shot at it to-
morrow if we were ordered by the de-
partment"
Just Missed Tall CLIFF
In making their report to Major
Bane, the flyers said:
"The take-of was perfect and every
thing was working we'll until we en-
tered New Mexico. The weather was
giving US some trouble, however.
The wind was 50 bad at times, told
Macready we would meet our end with
in short time" Kelly told Major
Bane. ~ can safely say no two men
ever encountered such conditions be-
fore.
Eat one time we were flying at $500
feet when high cliff suddenly loomed
up in front Of US. steered the ship
to avoid hitting it and was successful
in passing over the top Of the precipice
with about three feet to spare and at
a speed of sixty-four miles an hour.
High winds in the canyons also gave
trouble occurred over Kansas when we
noticed the water leaking from the en-
gine, which began to heat up. We used
Continued on pass slx)