The New York herald., 1922-07-12
NEWPORT Filler HERE
in HOUR 20 Minutes
Mrs. Whitehouse Makes Trip
With Friends in Vincent
Astor's Airplane.
BEATS BOAT FIVE HOURS
Harold s. Vanderbilt Starts
Making Amateur Records
as an Aviator.
BEATS BOAT FIVE HOURS

1t took Mrs. j. Norman der. White
house just one hour and twenty min
utes yesterday to fly to New York
from Newport. Hers was the first
fight which New York woman of
society has made between this city
and Newport. and it led to the predic-
ton that before many more months
the airplane will have supplanted the
automobile and the motorboat in popu-
larity as a means of getting about
during the summer.
While Mrs. Whitehouse was flying
to the city many of her friends fol-
lowed the rail and steamboat routes,
which meant that she beat the fastest
Of them by at least Ave hours. with
her in the plane were Mr.. Whitehouse
and Bertram de N. Cruger.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitehouse and Mr..
Cruger made the trip In Vincent Astor's
Loening hydromonoplane. in which he
himself has made numerous long and
successful flights this summer. The
route lay between the inner Newport
ington, where Mr.. Astor, Harold S.
Vanderbilt and few other amateur
fliers harbor their aircraft
100 Miles an Hour.
The distance covered was close to 1875
miles. or at the rate of slightly more
than 100 miles an hour. Mr.. Astor
started for New York the night before
en- board his steam yacht. Nourmahal
leaving the experience of. travelling city
ward by the air route from the Rhode
Island resort to Mrs. Whitehouse. Mr.
Whitehouse and Mr.. Cruger under the
guidance of Mr.. Astor's pilot. The yacht
anchored at Port Washington a short
time before his Looming electromagnetic
dropped from the sky in Port Washing
ton harbor.
The start from the waters of Newport
barbor was made at o'clock yesterday
morning After a short skim over the
surface Of the harbor the plane took the
air and sailed over Torpedo Island and
Narragansett Bay. By the time Mar
ragansett Pier on the other side of the
bay was passed the machine was 1900
feet in the air and that was about the
average height at which the pilot held
the airplane in its flight westward over
Long Island Sound. 1t was twenty min
utes after Q when the machine
dropped upon the surface of Port Wash
ington harbor. near the Nourmahal
Harold S. Vanderbilt can, as ,ir. Astor
fly his own machine but In long flights
he gives the responsibility to the air
plane pilot. who has entered the per-
sonnel of amateur sport in much the
same manner as the skipper of an anna
teur yacht.
H. s. vanderbilt's star Flight.
Mr.. vanderbi1t's star flight since he
has taken to the air while remaining
Commodore of the New York Yacht Club
was made on June 27 when he flew to
Southampton where he played eighteen
holes of golf and had luncheon. He
then flew back and witnessed most Of
the baseball game between the Yale
and Harvard mines and in which the for
mer trounced her ancient enemy In sport
30.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is an alumnus of Har-
ward (class Of 1907) and seeing how
things were going against his alma
mater, he returned to the hydroplane
anchorage, tuned up his flying machine
and flew to Poughkeepsie. arriving there
in time to witness the great victory of
the Navy over Washington, Syracuse,
Columbia and Pennsylvania.
The last leg of Mr.. Vanderbilt's re-
markable days flight was from the
reaches of the upper Hudson to the
harbor at Port Washington. He reached
his country place nearby in time for an
s o'clock dinner.