Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-07
FL|ERS ARE READY
FOR HOP TO BRAZIL
Lieutenant Hinton, Of NC-4
Fame. Will Leave Here Today
on Flight to New York
WILL JOIN CONTINENTS

Five mon in an S0O Horsepower sca
plan" expect to chop off" from the
hangars at Essington this afternoon
for New York City. whence they
will start the first leg of their S3G5-
mile Journey TO Brazil.
The giant plane will be pilotcd by
Walter Hinton. former lieutenant Of the
Iritcd States Navy and piiot nf the
NC-4. the first aircraft to make a
Transatlantic fight.
Fix months ago Hinton and DR..
ENcIydes Pinto Martins. Brazilian
sportsman and graduate of the engineer
Ing and electrical schools of the Uni
vcrSity of Pennsylvania. conceived the
idea Of a flight 10 South America
With the aid OF Senator Sampaio
E"rre!a, Of Brazil and president of the
Arco club Of Brazil. they purchased an
ll-l6 type plano from the Philadelphia
Navy Yard. The planes cost the Gov
Crnment $50 coo each anil are now being
sod for $500.
Liberty Motors to BE Ised
The plane IN which the New York
Rio 10 tdneiro "jump' will be made
has two 400 horse power Liberty
improved for the flight. The motors de-
NeIopcd iOS horse power each on Il
block test and will be able TO drive q
plane Nt Il rate of eighty miles an hour
The plane. which has Il seating ca
racity "f seven persons. Is forty feet
long, eighteen feet high md has n wing
spread OF n!ncty-siX feet. The motors
con>um" about twenty-five gallons Of
gasoline each every flying hour.
To Make Start Saturday
The flying party consisting of Hin.
ton. DR.. Martin, Chief MeChHnirian
John Wilshusen. a moving picture man
md n historian to record the trip Will
tly down rho Delaware river tr tho
mouth of the bay and from thence up
moor in the Hudson river off the CO.
mmbia Yacht C!ubs' wharf at the foot
OF Eighty sixth street.
H-16 will remain in New York until
Saturday VIXEN she will make the first
hop" Of the long fight.
Il think We can cover the entire
distance in ninety seven flying hours"
Lieutenant Hinton said a> he climbed
into the cock pit for a trial spin down
the Delaware.
The voyage viii, believe. 5c en-
'!rely different than tn" trip which We
mad" IN tn" NC-4.
We do not expect to encounter
the dense fogS on our trip south. which
"" did near the Azores on the trans
Atlantic flight. he continued.
Another peril. which we hope {"
avoid, is the hurricanes off the West
Indies.
We ny NJ an attitude Of Nv" or
three thousand feet, and in this way we
hone - hr able TO get out Of the way
of anything thnt looks like a hurricane
when we sco it coming
Hinton mans 20 fly more than 1000
miles up tho Amazon River before maxi
irc the final "hop" to Rio dc Janoiro.
The route, with stopping places. fo!-
lows:
New York 10 CharIcstown, s C.,
Coo nautical miles 10 Nassau. $50: 20
Port al Prince, Haiti. 40; to san
Juan. Porto Rico. +2o; to Fort de
France, Martinique. 800: 20 Trinidad.
300: 10 Georgetown. British Guina,
$50; TO Paramaribo. Dutch Guiana,
90: to Para. Brazil 540 TO Mnnaos,
ON the Amazon. 80: return t" Para.
710: to Manrahao. $50; to Aracaty.
400; 70 Natal. 900 10 Parahybn. -;
70 Pernamburo. DR. Martins home. 70:
10 Bahia. 800; to Rio de Janeiro, 1Jt.
VIII Not Garry ParaChutes
SO spare parts for the plane will be
Sert ahead. Il, i is expected everything
If Tint naturr will be taken aboard
Loforr leaving Philadelphia No navy
co. operation il to b" asked. Fuel up
tho Amazon River will be taken from
the emergency tanks. The fuel capacity,
incluling III" emergency tanks. Is
slightly over 600 gallons. Drinking
water will be carried in thermoS bot
ties. and no paraChutes or other life
saving devices will be carried. because
Of the excess weight.
Hinton ranks high az an ncrinl navi-
gator. Before his historic fight on the
NC.4 he had brilliant career in the
navy. lie was the first twin motor in
structor at the Navy Aviation School,
at Pensacola. Fla. He was also on the
celebrated balloon flight into the Cana.
dian wildernpss in 1921 with Lieutenant
Louis 4. kIoor Jr,, and Lieutenant
s. A. Fnrrell. on which they were lost
for nearly a month, Later he was in
the bombing squadron at the Hampton
ROnl maneuvcrs
Tie trip TO South America will be
the first flight between the two contl-
ncnts, and the longest flight. north and
south, vet undertaken, and second only
in distance TO the flight made by the
late Captain Ross Smith, from London
"a, N,,C