Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-08
OFF AGAIN TODAY
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a new undercarriaSe, or swabbed off
| plane surfaces.
! With everything ship-shape for
| tomorrow's flight, Lieutenant Smith
| said the world cruisers would take
| Off from the Boston airport at noon
Nor New York to arrive at Mitchell
Field at = T. M. They will fly first
to Providence, Il. l., thence along
! the shore over New London. New
! Haven and Bridgeport. and along the
! shores of Long Island Sound to New
York. They will circle over the city
at height of about $500 feet, then
swing back 20 Mitchell Field. l.. !.
The world fliers will be preceded
by an aerial escort of three planes,
headed by Major General Mason NJ.
Patrick, CHIEF of the air service.
They will stop in New York only
overnight. probably moving on to
Washington. Tuesday. The exact
route to he followed to Seattle is still
uncertain. The world cruisers will
stop at Dayton, Ohio. Chicago, ST.
Joseph, Mo-, and Omaha, Neb
Thence they will fly either to North
Platte, Ncb., or Cheyenne, Wyo., and
the route to Seattle will be worked
out accordingly.
After concluding the world cir
cumnivagation at Seattle, the planes
will be flown by the world hiers or
other pilots to Los Angeles, or San
Diego. The army air service is now
considering proposals for disposition
OF planes to the cities for which
they were named, but it was said
another request that the flagplane,
Chicago, be presented to the Smith
sonian Institute as historical exhi-
bit was under consideration also.
The sloughing off today of the
pontoons carried by the Chicago and
New Orleans marked the close of
the water jumps of their world flight
The wheels that were attached were
those left behind when the fliers
sped away from Seattle on April
9th. The Boston II, which replaces
the original ship of that name. lost
in Island waters. Joined the fight
only at Pictou, n. S.
1t was the work of less than three
hours to complete the change from
pontoons to wheels on all three
planes. The world f1iers turned to,
with the enlisted men of the Bos-
ton Airport under command of Lieu
tenant r. j. Brown. chairman of the
world flight committee, and, with a
navy crane hoisted the planes out
OF the water as the last act of the
navy's participation in the world
flight. the planes were brought back
to land.
The airmerA who had been up at
4 A. M. and at the airport at $50
to take advantage of the high tide.
went to work swabbing and rubbing.
pulling pins and checking struts,
painting undertakings and oiling
the engines. There was some dis
cussion Of the plans to pull out the
present motors at Mitchell Field to-
morrow. and the airmen indicated
that they felt such a change was
unnecessary. Lieutenant Jack Hard
ing of the New Orleans said he had
better motors than the present one,
but added that she was good enough
to take them acress the country.
. An tmpromptu officers mess was
arranged in hangar when it was
found that the f1iers were not going
to take advantage Of General Pat
rick's suggestion of day off, and
they sat down to army chow with
Major H. A. Dargue and officers of
the airport. They were back on the
job again in few minutes, and it
was close to p. NJ. before they left
their ships" for their hotel.
The world fiiers were so much i'm
pressed by the reception they receiv-
ed here yesterday. WIN scores of
thousands maSsed on the airport
field to meet them, that they cried.
Major Dargue said today that three
of the men wept as he escorted them
to speaking stand. The scene was
In contrast to that at Mere Point.
Me-. where they had made their
first landing in this country, with
only a handful Of belated summer
residents to greet them.
Senator James w. Wadsworth,
Jr., of New York, who is to address
the world fliers on their arrival at
Mitchell Field tomorrow, few here
today from Pennington, Me-, in an
army airplane piloted by Lieuten-
ant NJ. B. Elliot. and then continued
his trip by air to New York. He
was accompanied by another plane
In which Colonel Roy L Marston Of