Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
"A PLANES FINISH
FIRST LAP IN TRIP
Make Two Hops In Reaching
Chicago in Ford Prize
Run-0ne Delayed.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 7.-Twenty-four
airplanes of various makes and
models rested safely at the air mail
field in haywood, a suburb, tonight
after completing in two hops the
first leg Of the second commercial
airplane reliability tour.
The Woodson plane, at first report
ed missing, was later located at
Gary. Ind. from where Its pilot,
II. II. Gallop, reported he had been
forced down by engine trouble. He
planned to join the other "a here to-
morrow in time for the take-off to
Milwaukee.
The % airplanes contesting for a
silver trophy donated by Edsel Fora
left Detroit this morning, flew ~
miles to Kalamazoo, and this after
noon hoped TO Chicago, 12S miles.
The aerial tourists have an easy
day tomorrow, with a 90-mile flight
I'D the shore of Lake Michigan to
Milwaukee. On Monday they Will
fiy to St. Paul.
5000 See Planes Arrive.
airmen as they arrived here, all "a
sailing out of the sky to perfect
landings.
The huge, triple engined, all-metal
Ford plane with an incloSed cabin,
capable of carrying 10 passengers,
the largest in the contest, was made
the object of a rush by thousands OIL
persons, but by the time 1t mad
TAXED into line the smallest craft IN
the flight was upon the field and the
big ship was, for the moment, de-
serted.
The oliver" a tiny Griggs Dart,
was threatened with serious dam
age by the spectators, and to save II
from being wrecked in the STAN :
pede to view it it was not wheeled
into line but was TAXED TO the air
mail hangar and hidden under the
wings of a big air mail ship. Be
tween the top of the Dart and the
lower wing of the mail plane there
was room to spare.
{. s Casey" Jones, veteran,
was the first flyer 10 reach Chicago,
whirling a Curtiss Oriole out of the
east. He was second in the contest
last year 1t was not known whether
he had won the $1,000 offered by the
Ford dealers of Chicago for the best
time from Detroit, however, as the
officials had not checked against
starting times tonight.
Woman Is a Passenger.
When the passenger riding with
Lieut. John Paul Riddle in a Waco
plan stripped off cap and goggles,
she was revealed az Mrs. Susan H.
Embly of Cincinnati, Ohio, the only
woman in the race. She is not yet
a pilot. but the ship in which she is
riding will be hers after the tour, and
she expected to drive it. Her son,
II. Higbee Embry, is associated with
Lieut. Riddle in distributing planes.
Vance BreeSe. plotting Ryan
monoplane, motored with a 300
horsepower Wright whirlwind en-
CINE, had not enough flying for the
day and after checking in went aloft
for an exhibition of loops. slips and
looming. He sent his powerful
mount straight into the skies and
his run for a take off measured less
than so feet.
One Plane Out of Gas.
The Babcock plane, piloted by A.
r. Everett. with b. c. Babcock Of
Akron, Ohio, as a passenger, was
the only one of the "a forced down
en- route. He was nearly to the air
mail field, going along nicely when his
gasoline supply was exhausted. He
came in an hour late.
The Ford trophy is the big prize
for the contestants, but 100000 in cash
awards also offer an incentive to the
flyers of the larger planes.
Three classes of planes are in the
contest, with the smallest type in
vited as a matter of general interest.
$1,000 being offered the winner in
that group.