New Britain herald., 1927-08-27
REDFERN GONE 49 HOURS; NO WORD
(Continued from First Page)

(Continued from First Page) reports of government meteorologists that he will encounter favorable weather conditions through prac- tically all of his transequatorial jump. especially over those dubious stretches of the lower Atlantic and the Caribbean sea, whose treacher- ous reaches he has traversed already if his program of flight met no un- foreseen mischance.
 By his pre-flight computations. Redfern today should be over the northeastern part of Brazil, already across Dutch Guiana and blazing new aerial highroad over the high mountain ranges. In the Pascaraima range. one peak, Roraima, filings itself $500 feet in height and Red fern must put these crests below and behind him before he can cross the great continental plain, with its vast unexplored morasses and jungles.
 It twas here that Redfern was ex- pected to make his choice of ob- jectives if unforeseen circum- stances had not already landed him at Para. If his great Stinson- Detroit CT monoplane is still whirring har- moniously and his fuel supply has not been depleted when he strikes mountain ranges. his course will take him zooming to Rio. If his judgment labels that too great task for his motors and his own endurance, he will swing eastward into an arc that will bring him up at Pernambuco.
 Redfern's ambitious effort, if Rio De Janeiro were reached would carry him approximately 3,7s3 miles south of Brunswick and about 2.64o miles east of it. The monoplane was not charted to travel over the hy- pothenuse of the triangle thus formed. but over the great circle, a distance much further, which has been calculated at 4,600 miles. By the Associated Press.
 Bushwck, Ga, Aug 27.-The Caribbean sea alone knows the whereabouts of Paul Redfern. Pan- American flyer, bound from Bruns- wick to Brazil.
 No direct word has been heard from him since he took off from here at 12:4e o'clock Thursday afternoon. A radio message from Nassau, picked up at St. Petersburg, Fla, said Redfern's monoplane, the Port of Brunswick. had been sighted 300 miles east of the Bahamas Islands by steamship yesterday afternoon. This report. unconfirmed from any other source, placed him from 400 to 500 miles out, and indicated that he was holding his course.
 No Word For Day
 More than 36 hours of silence have intervened since that time, however, despite the fact that ships at sea and islands had been asked to report If his plane were sighted.
 If the young pilot had maintained his schedule as mapped out before he left Brunswick he should have been over Dutch GuianA last night. Redfern would have passed Porto Rico Thursday night and passed over the the Caribbean during the remainder of the night. Daybreak would have found him nearing St. George. Grenada Island. or Tobacco Island.
 Dr. Frederick c. Redfern, dean of Benedict college. Columbia. s. C., who came here to help his son map his course. said that after passing the Grenadines and while flying 50 miles east of Trinidad Isle and Georgetown, British Guiana. to Point St. Andrews and well beyond Dutch Guiana, he passed through greater belts of calms, where severe thunder storms. cyclones and hurricanes. oc- cur almost daily"
 Many Unknown Areas
 The unexplored highlands of Guiana also lay between him and his first objective, Macapa. on the north ern estuary of the Amazon river. At this place, where the equator crosses the great stream, he was to decide whether to turn east to Recife (Per- or continue on to Rio de Janeiro.
 Redfern expected to make the flight in 50 hours from Brunswick, which would place him at his destination early Saturday night, if he were able to maintain his advance schedule.
 The profound silence that has sur rounded her husband on his haz- ardous flight has increased the of his young wife. Friends with whom she is stopping comfort cd her by suggesting that a great portion of the first leg of the 4,60o- mile flight lay outside regular steam- ship lanes and that. as Redfern en- tered more travelled lanes in the Caribbean sea, he probably would fly at such high altitude that his motor would be unheard and the plane would be invisible in the tropi- cal darkness.
 Experts Doubtful
 Naval men said that if Redfern reached his objective it would be little short of miracle. They es- he wouldd miss his objec- tive at Rio de Janeiro by about 450 miles. as thea did not believe his gasoline supply would last more than 57 hours. while with favorable it would take 62 hours to reach his goal. They believe when he reaches the northwestern coast of Brazil he will turn east to Pernam- buco.
 Redfern in referrinz fn hiz dinht