Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-27
Aviator Believed Near Goal 1T He Has
EScaned Mishap.

BRUNSWICK, Ga, August - VI
With The blackness of two mooniess
nights behind him, Paul Redfern TO
day sped his giant monoplane through
its second successive dawn ana on
ward to the goal of his solitary hlgh'
10 Brazil. unless a whim of nature OF
mechanics has stopped him short IN a
tropic region out of touch With al
eagerly waiting world.
Only once in his journey nave even
vague tidings been received OF TINS
newest Viking of the clouds. lnurS'
day night a vessel reported him about
and miles east of Nassau. Bahamas,
but this information remains uncon'
firIned.
Scarcity of news was not trans
lated into alarm. however. for the
course that Redfern laid out carried
him over virtually trackless seas ana
land. Continued silence will not be-
come portent of danger until the hour
of his planned arrival has passed
early tonight if he flies to Rio de
Janeiro or near noon today If low
fuel supply or another cause prompts
him to swerve eastward to Pernam-
buco, on the coast.
Might Land at Para.
One further contingency would land
him at Para, northwest of Pernam-
buco and almost 1900 miles directly
north of Rio de Janeiro, the major
objective of the daring pilot, who
eatapulted into space from Glynn Isle,
near here, at noon Thursday. Para
was his intended landing place if
adverse winds and weather forced too
rapid consumption of fuel, in the
opinion of Paul j. Warner, chairman
IL,
flight.
Radio stations, ships and light
houses sprinkled on and near his
southeasterly route across the equator
are alert to his voyage and plan to
flash to the world the first news they
have of Redfern or his plane. Anna.
teur wireless operators throughout the
southeast, as well as operators of
powerful government and commercial
stations. are keyed up and listening
in for the slightest bit of information
concerning the pilots whereabouts.
In Brunswick, where all prepare.
tions were made and from where his
stupendous attempt began, Redfern 8
young wife is anXiously awaiting
news, although she, like the others
particularly interested in the aviator
progress, has kept her confidence in
his success, realizing that his care
fully plotted course afforded no hour.
by-hour check on his 4,600-mile journey
through the clouds.
Encountering Good Weather.
Adding to the general belief that
l2edfern will attain at least his sec.
ondary objective, Pernambuco, are re.
ports of Government meteorologists
that he will encounter favorable
weather conditions through practical.
ly all of his transeQuatorial jump
especially over those dubious stretches
nf the lower Atlantic and the Carib
bean Sea, whose treacherous reaches
he has traversed already If his pro-
gram of flight met no unforeseen mis-
chance.
BY his pre-flight computations
Eedfern today should be over the
northeastern part of Brazil. already
across Dutch Guiana and blazing a
new aerial highroad over the high
mountain ranges. In the Pascaraima
Range one peak, Roraima, filings
itself 5000 feet in height, and Red
fern must put these crests below ano
behind him before he can cross the
great Continental Plain, with its vast
unexplored morasses and jungles.
was here that Redfern was eX-
nected to make his choice of OBJ
lectlVeS-lL uILoieSecH vi Coiiio NtIi 'S'
had not already landed him at Para
1f his great Stinson- Detroiter mono
nIane is still whirring harmoniousi1
and his fuel supply has not beer
depleted when he strikes the noun
Tin ranges. his course will take hin
looming on to Rio. If his judgmen
1shels that too great task for his
motors and his own endurance, ne
viii swing eastward into an arc thai
viii bring him up at Pernambuco.
Redfern's ambitious effort, II kl'
de Janeiro were reached. would carr;
him approximately 1913 miIes souti
of Brunswick and about Z'54o mile
aast of il The monoplane was no
charted 10 travel over the hypothe
mise of the triangle thus formed. bu
over the great circle. a distance mucl
further. which has been calculated a
4 COO miles.