Evening star., 1926-07-15
WORLD RACERS HIT
II
J.. S CIVIL AVIATION
Germany Far Ahead. They
Report Army Plane Made
{ Trip Here Success.
BIZ EDWARD S. EVANS.

NEW YORK, July 15.-By seven
modes of conveyance. using IL air
nlRnes, three special trains, two liners
ana many small boats and autos, q
jihrickshaw, q droshky and last but
not least. our feet, Linton Wells and
Islpwered the record for circling the
globe hy more than q week.
1T seems vacuouS to say merely
that it was a great adventure, but
that is the best summary I can give.
Our route called for 1900 miles
we travelled, actually. over 10000
n9iies: our schedule called for some
thing like $50 miles a day. We
traveled actually over 700 miles a day
-sfpr 2S days IA hours 36 minutes and
Sseconds. Nearly 80 miles an hour
for 6S6 hours.
Used IL Planes.
sdof II planes arranged for. we
! actually few In IL. One crashed
hAfore we arrived in Cherbourg; one
developed engine trouble before we
boarded 1t and three were held in re-
serve at different points.
Two-thirds of our plans went wrong.
The only surprising thing about this
- the rest of them held up. Plans
s9l such a trip constitute merely a
seenario-you jerk out parts you can
improve and use substitutes, Others
fall out without jerking.
Three things stand out above all
efhers for me from the great ex-
perience. The first is tlte record. WIN
any one beat 1t soon?
do not think SO. not soon--but in
4kfew years our record of 2S days and
u hours plus win seem as humorous
as Nellie Bly's record of 70 days plus.
The time is not far distant when the
world will be circled with the sun.
Visionary? Not at all.
Ii Future Rapid Transit.
ssStarting from Point Barrow, Alaska.
II is 5000 niles around the globe.
There are planes in existence now
which can make 500 miles an hour
1900 miles in "a hours. Planes will
soon be made which will do this with
Sqfficent dependability to be counted
upon for a 24-hour flight.
In three days such plane could
accomplish what Wells and have
dpne for the first time in less than.
29 days
1.-THE second thing that has impressed
ME is the backwardness of civil avia.
tpn in the United States The best
CIVIL aviators. with few exceptions.
aech as MY friend Eddie Stinson, and
tle best civil aviation systems In the
world are IN Germany II the United
States Army aviators had not come
tn our assistance in this country.
Mells and would not have reached
New York in the time we did by any
Means.
Flying is an established mode of
travel in Europe. Wells and stepped
into our planes with q feeling Of re-
lief. We knew that we were setting
out on safe trips, quiet trips and
clean trips.
We arrived at the end of our race
more or less liisheveled. That was
not Crime accumulated in hying-it
was accumulated in travelling by auto
from Mitchell Field to downtown New
York.
All Planes ON Time.
OF the IL planes we travelled In. not
one WIS delayed. not one missed fire,
not one arrived late
: Finally, I shall always remember
the human factors of our journey,
from our surprising reception in Rus
sia to the loyal friendship of Eddie
Stinson,> who stood by with his plane
TO help when he was quite certain
that he would not get into the picture.
Three, thousand persons met us at
Russia. We had Travelled
long and hard-doubtless we did anus
ing things and we were outlanders.
But not the giddiest school girl in
the crowd giggled. All looked at us,
with tfriendliness and sympathy
pressed forward to help us. That was
typical of our reception throughout
Russia and also OF our reception by
the government.
What was the worst stretch Of the
journey? Over the, mountains from
Ioaco, Wash, to Boise, Idaho. The
air was so rough that 1t was a con-
tinual,, jogging and dancing three i
times our motors stalled by dips 80
sharp that the carburetor choked.
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