Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04
HOP To LABRADOR
ASSURES SUCCESS
Of WORLD FLIGHT

ClICuIlIldNlSdLlOl VI IhO SlObe ny ciA
was virtually completed with the ar
rival on the Labrador coast late yes
terday Of the American army world
filters.
Hopping off from Ivigtut, Green
land at 6:29 a. m, eastern standard
time, Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith
and his companions drove their pow
er1ul eaplanes over the 572-mile
stretch Of water without mishap and
alighted at Ice Tickle at 1:1S p, m,
accomplishing the hop in six hours
and ~ minutes.
The arm of the Atlantic separating
Greenland and La brador is notorious
for its ice and fogs but conditions
were almost ideal for the flight. A
SLIGHT mist along the Labrador coast
early in the morning cleared away
later and the planes were helped on
their way by a wind out of the
northwest which at times brought
their speed to as high as 126 miles
an hour.
Filters Show Strain
The four men-Lieutenant Smith
and his mechanician, Lieutenant
Leslie P. Arnold, in plane No. 2, and
Lieutenant Eric Fl. Nelson, in No. 4,
with Lieutenant John Harding, Jr.,
as his assistant-shoWed the physical
strain of the journey and the sus'
pense Of the long days since they
left kirkwall in the Orkneys early IN
August, but expressed keen JOY at
arriving again on north American
soil, declaring their world journey
practically ended.
They were met with a warm vel
come from the Richmond, a detail of
sailors from the destroyer Lawrence
and a few fisher folk from along
the barren coast as well as neWspa-
per men and photographers who had
awaited their arrival since early in
August.
The coming of the filters was sig
nailed to those at Ice Tickle by sig
nal men from the Lawrence, sta
toned on Rodney Mundy Hills, close
by, and then to the wireless station
several miles away. Off shore near
White Cockade Island was the Law
renee, acting as guardship to the
up through the coastal haze the fur
thest among the outlying islands.
Pass Line of Ships
The planes, in their journey over
the turbulent north Atlantic strewn
with ice and spattered with fog, had
passed over the Milwaukee, off
southern Greenland, the Coghlan and
the Charles Ausburn, which had
been on patrol and which flashed
ahead each in turn the passage of
the planes overhead.
After a brief halt to replenish
their fuel, the aviators plan to con-
tinue forty miles southwark along
the coast to Cartwright Bay, a much
larger and more sheltered anchoring
place where a base has been estab-
lished for the next take-off From
Cartwright Bay only brief stops are
contemplated at Hawke Bay and
Pictou Harbor, N. S.
Just five months and fourteen
days after beginning their world
girdling tour, the American filters
landed in the waters of continental
North America. Theirs was the first
west bound crossing Of the Atlantic
ocean by airplane.
The planes swept in from the
ocean like huge gray gulls and. flv-
ing low over the broad expanse of
water, clrcled until they dropped to
their bright yellow buoys and float
ed lightly in the green water under
the shelter of lofty ridges of rocks.
Ihls cove was chosen because of
the comparatively safe landing con-
oltlons it affords and for the addi-
tlonaI reason that it is situated on
a promontory jutting towards Green
land, proving the shortest route
across the arm of the Atlantic,
winch extends north-northWest into
Davis strait
Marvellous Achievement
with their arrival today on the
Atlantic coast Of the North Aneri-
can continent the round-the.world
Flyers of the United Stetas army air
service completed the most marvel
Gus achievement in the history of
aviation to date-the virtual encir.
cllng of the globe in heavier.than.
ar machines. Before the flight wa
commenced Major General Patrick,
chleE or the army air service. said
the completion Of it would be a feat
or importance paralleling that of
Magellan, who in 1909, was the first
man to cIrcumnavigate the globe.
The story Of the historic Of the
historic and record breaking flight
compares with the most gripping ad.
venture tales of fiction. Like the
pioneers of any expedition blazing
a new trail, these intrepid airmen,
the first to fly around the world, of
necessity had to be men Of courage
and with nerves of steel. Notwith-
standing the carefully laid plans for
the trip there were certain hardships
which could not be avoided-those
that must necessarily accompany an
undertaking of such magnitude,
compelling as it did flights in all
kinds of climate ranging from the
frigid Arctic weather of the north
Pacific late in March to the near
tropical conditions encountered in
the Far East in June
All manner of weather had to be
contended with, the elements appar-
emily having no sympathy with the
laudable ambition of these men to
be the first to fly around the world.
Treacherous gales, violent rains and
in the Alaskan regions before the
flyers hoped off the North Ameri-
can continent for the first attempt
of airplanes to wing their way across
the Pacific. Fog was a dangerous
factor and when the aviators reach
ed down into the Torrid Zone in the
Far East they encountered tropical
winds and rains and in India ran
into a sand storm.
What misfortune or i'll luck there
was in the adventure seemed to at
tach itself to the commander and the
flag plane of the squadron. Major
Fred l.. Martin. who was flight COM
mander at the start, had a series of
mishaps along the North Pacific
coast of the North American CONT
nent eliminating in his flag plane.
the Seattle. crashing into a mountain
on the Alaska peninsula. Major
Martin and his mechanician. Ser
geant Alva Harvey, escaped I'M