Evening star., 1923-05-04
MACREADY, KELLY AND
T-2 EXCEED Widest
FANCY OF PLANEINVENTOR
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for duration of flight and an attempt
to fly around the world.
Plane Il Old One.
The plane they dew in to San Diego
yesterday was the same they had
used in two previous attempts to
cross the American continent with
out a stop, the first of which was
halted by fog which prevented them
from finding their way through the
mountain passes east of here, and
the second Of which terminated
through a failure of their engine at
Indianapolis last November.
Both these attempts, however, re-
suited in record performances. for the
aviators turned the frst one into an
attempt for a record for sustained
flight. They circled above San Diego
and its environs for thirty-fve hours
eighteen minutes and thirty seconds,
exceeding by more than nine hours
the best previous mark. Official ac-
ceptance of this mark as an interna-
tional record was withheld because Of
technicalities. though there was no
question that the aviators had re-
manned aloft for the time stated.
Second Trip Falls.
The second attempt also had it's
start from Rockwell Field. In it the
dianapolis. where they landed only
after they had used everything avail
able in the plane to keep their en-
gine cool. even pouring into it's ra-
diator system the milk and coffee
from their provisions to replace the
water that had leaked out through
cracks in the engines cylinder jack
cts.
The aviators were given such a
greeting here on their arrival as
comes to few men. San Diegans. one
by nativity and the other by adop-
zion. the city took them to her heart
with unanimous acclaim. Although
the big T-2 landed in the middle of
the field, the crowd that gathered
was so large and pressed so close
to the aviators that by the time Maj.
Henry A. Arnold, commandant of the
field, arrived he had to fight his way
through.
President Wires.
You have accomplished the i'm
possible" Mai. Arnold declared in
his enthusiasm and his words found
echoes from every quarter Of the
country In kilograms. including one
from President Harding, which read:
You have written a new chapter
in the triumphs OF American avia-
ton"
Both the aviators were In good
To- I.a
Except for few spatterings Of oil
from the Liberty engine that had
brought them a greater distance than
any persons have ever flown pre-
viously In one continuous night, they
a II they had taken an hours jaunt.
They began telling newspaper men
how they planned to try for new
and mo.e difficult records.
The story of the flight was told BY
fact way with first one and then the
other putting In sentence or word
to illuminate some point as they
alternately carried on the description.
There was the start. when the
only by inches. There was difficulty
in getting the motors full power
into play for the first few hundred
miles and the thrill MacReady
described when they ran into a man.
moth beacon light at Bellevue, ILL.,,
piercing the clouds and darkness to
guide them on their way. There was
the danger Of the desert in AriEona,
Nemesis of aviators in the past. where
landing in the day time Is dangerous
and at night most likely fatal. And
then Sah Diego, nesting like q minia-
ture paradise on q bay OF the Pacific
ocean in southern California-home.
A flight finished. A record made.
Baths, food and cigarettes.
One Note OF Anxiety.
One note Of anxiety was in the
story. That remained from the fear
while over New Jersey that this
voltage regulator OF their ignition
system would force them to land.
MacReady repaired IT.
The airplane had about forty gall
Ions Of gasoline left in its tanks
when 1t landed. out Of the 725 gall
Ions 1t took at the start Tho plane
was the same the hiers had used IN
earlier attempts to ny across the con-
tinent, but the motor was different.
The motor used is q 400-horsepowsr
standard compression Liberty. TO this
type of motor aviation officers ascribe
the success of the flight: that is.snext
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