Evening star., 1923-07-19
TAKES OFF AT DAWN.
Plane Carefully Guarded by Sol
diers All Night.

By the Associated Press.
mitchell FIELD. n. Y. July 1s.-
Lieut. Russell L. Vaughan took or
here at 4:eS o'clock this morning.
eastern standard time, on the first
leg of his second attempt to fly from
coast to coast between dawn and
dark He pointed his plane toward
Dayton, Ohio, where he intended to
make his first stop.
The plane sleft the ground eight
minutes and four seconds later than
the take-off made by Lieut.. Maughan
on his previous dawn-to-dusk flight.
weather Almost Ideal.
Lieut.. Bertram ]. Sherry. weather
expert from Washington. ID. c.. de-
clared the weather to be almost ideal
for flying conditions. saying the light
winds would be to the aviator's ad-
vantage. At the 3,000-foot level, he
said, there was a ten-mile- AM hour
easterly wind, while at 5000 feet q
northeast wind was blowing at eight
miles an hour. There was slight
fog over the field, but Maughan had
no difficulty in making his getaway.
Liuet. Sherry said he also would en-
counter a light fog over the Alle-
ghanies in Pennsylvania.
The flyer had little more than four
hours sleep, having retired at 1850
last night and arising at 3:45. day
light-saving time. He breakfasted
on ham and egg sandwiches and cof-
fee.
A Flying Newsie.
After Maughan had climbed into
the cockpit bundle of New York
morning. newspapers, still damp with
the ink from the presses. was hand
ed to him. Above the roar of the en-
gine he shouted out. laughingly: Il
want to be the first news vender to
sell New York morning newspapers in
San Francisco. on the evening of the
day of their publication"
AS the flyer took to the air a tele-
gram was dispatched by Lieut.. Ed
ward Johnson, Maughan's "bunkie."
to Col L. W. Gilmore, chief of the air
service at San Francisco. 1t said:
Lieut.. Vaughan carrying copies
of New York morning newspapers.
Suggest they be -auctioned as first
morning papers to be read on Pacific
coast on date of publication in New
York"
Pays For Papers.
Maughan insisted on paying for
the papers, saying he would be a
real news vender and wanted to get
his pay for delivering them out Of the
profits from sales.
An extBa heavy military guard
surrounded the machine all night
and right UP to the moment when
Maugnan started.
Officials have been unable to dis
cover what allied the pressure sys-
tenn that clogged and broke off the
last transcontinental fight. Nor has
the pilot been able to satisfy himself
that the radiator cap. which he found
over the outlet to his gasoline tank,
got there accidentally.
The seventy-five officers and ten
newspaper men permitted to approach
the biplane were kept 100 feet dis
tant by the Gordon of soldier guards.
No hands touched the machine after
those of Maughan and the little stag
of mechanics in whom he places trust.
Will Follow Sanfe Route.
Lieut.. Maughan will follow the
itinerary mapped out for his first
flight on July 8, which ended in
failure near st. Joseph, No., after
the gasoline feed pipe became
clogged.
A" MccooK COOK s Field. nasG paytonl en- foSte: oSie:
Municipal Field. st. Joseph, Mo-; Air
Mail Field, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Sal
dura. Utah.
To accomplish the flight across tn.
Lieut.. Maughan will have to make
the trip in 16 hours 16 minutes. He
lost IA minutes Of daylight in the
nine days since his first attempt.
Service to He Speedy.
When the machine alights at the
stopping places two men will seize
the wings and trundle 1t to the pres
sure pumps, where benzol and gaso-
line will be forced into the tanks.
Mechanicians will hurriedly examine
the airplane for defects.
The flight was arranged, according
to Maj. w. c. Weaver, commanding
officer here. to determine whether
fleets of airplanes could be trans
ported from coast to coast in one day
in the event the United States was
attacked by hostile forces.