The New York herald., 1922-05-10
FLIES FROM HAVANA
IN II HRS. So MIN.
Giant Air Cruiser Santa Maria
Makes Last Hop From
Atlantic City.

With her two big Liberty motors
roaring in unison. the giant air cruiser
Santa Maria of the Aeromarine Air
ways flew up the North River and at
yesterday afternoon landed smoothly
on the water at the airport at the foot
of West Eighty-second street.
The big ship had come from Atlantic
City. flying through a head wind. in
an hour and twenty minutes This was
the last hop of flight northward from
Havana, a flight covered in seventeen
hours and thirtyfive minutes of actual
flying time. She brought nine pasSen-
gers and crew of three.
AS the big plane landed. In addition
to this record for fast flying time she
made another record Of 2S.oO0 miles
through the air at speeds OF from sixty
to one hundred miles an hour. in all
kinds of weather and in such widely
separated waters as the Great Lakes
and the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic
ocean and the Mississippi River.
Out of the two cabins OF the air
cruiser, as soon as she reached her
anchorage. came a group of men and
women with suitcases and other bag
gage. Several of the men wore straw
hats of the golden hue that indicates
use under a hot sun, and none was
dressed for Manhattan spring weather.
In addition to passengers WHO had come
all the way on the ship three repre-
sentatives of the United States Navy,
who had flown from Washington, dis
embarked. These were Commander N.
3. Farwell, Lieut.. w. l.. Richardson
and Lieut.. Commander McAtee. Others
on the trip were Mr. and Mrs. W. Gil
lies. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Rolph, Lieut.
ID. G. Richardson, pilot, and Mrs.
George Cobb. wife of one of the pilots
of the Santa Maria, and e. Nygord,
mechanic.
The Santa Maria on the way up took
her time between flights for passen-
gers to go ashore and committees OF
welcome to come aboard. There are
lot of small towns along the coast which
are waking up to the fact that In the
days to come deep harbor Is not 60
ing to be necessary to bring big ships
to their door, it was said. PROVIDED
they get busy now and establish facili-
ties for air cruisers
The record of the Santa Maria up the
coast is as follows Havana-key west,
one hour and ten minutes; Key West
Miami one hour and thirty-five min
utes Miami Fernandina, four hours and
twenty minutes Fernandina-Southport
three hours and thiry-five minutes
Scuthport-Manteo, two hours and forty
minutes ManIeO-0dpe OndiiSS, lily i've
minutes Cape Charles-Atlantic City,
two hours: Atlantic City-New York, one
hour and twenty minutes. The distance
is about 1850 miles. The average speed
was about eighty-two miles.
This is the second record of Importance
established on the Atlantic coast run
recently. On April IT Clifford Webster,
accompanied by a mechanic, drove
Looming flying yacht from Palm Beach.
1920 miles, to New York, in nine hours
and fifty-five minutes, an average speed
of 1913 miles. Webster made only one
stop, at Southport, of Az little over an
hour. The Santa Maria left Havana on
Wednesday last and took her time be-
tween flights.
The Santa Maria was welcomed yes
terday by a committee representing the
army and navy air service, the Aero
nautical Chamber of Commerce, the
Manufacturers Aircraft Association and
the Aero Club of America.
"The return of the Santa Maria after
eighteen months of practically continues
flying is probably the most significant
single event in the history of commercial
aviation in this country" statement
issued by the Aeronautical Chamber
OF Commerce said. "It establishes a
record for reliability and safety un-
equaled in any other country and places
air transportation before the public as a
real means of transportation"
After her arrival she made several
flights for photographers. and then flew
to the aeromarine factory at Keyport.