The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-06-04
FLIGHT BACKER
JOINS PILOT IN
OCEAN JOURNEY
Destination of Plane Not An
nOunced, But Believed to
BE Berlin
LEAVE FIELD AT 6:O5
Levine Startles Crowd BY
Stepping Into Plane-Wife
Didn't Know Plans
LEAVE FIELD AT 6:O5

tBy The Associated Pressl
Skirting the Nova Scotia coast
line, the Bellanca mOnOplane
Columbia. bound for Europe. was
beginning to pick up speed this
afternoon rs she passed the half
way mark of her thousand mile
flight to st. Johns, NewfOumd-
land.
Averaging only 6S miles an
hour on the 400 mile flight to
Yarmouth, y. s.. the Columbia
found tail wind off the Nova
Scotia coast and was soon hum.
ming along Yt 100 miles an hour.
The Columbia was nearly two
hours behind the time Of Lind.
bergh's flight off Halifax, \. s.,
and at the rate the mOnOplane
was making she was expected off
st. Johns, Newfoundland. about
O'clock tonight, eastern day
light time. Clarence Chamber
lin will get his final compass
bearings nj St. Johns a. the
plane heads nut over the broad
Atlantic for an unknown destin-
alton" to break the long distance
flight record Of Captain Charles
Lindbergh.
The Canadian press reported a
fine Is knot breeze ON the Col.
umbia's tail with the happy fore.
cast Of fresh west and south
winds. The New York weather
bureau said generally ideal
weather conditions prevailed over
the Atlantic for flying.
II Chamberlin holds the COL
umbia true to the course Of the
Great Circle the mOnOpIanc,
clipping off 100 miles an hour,
should be off lreland's coast al
o'clock tomorrow afternoon,
eastern daylight time.
New York, June 4.-(R)-A single
motored plane, the Columbia today
roared out along the new Great Arc
tic circle airline to Europe. carrying
4 millionaire in a business suit as
aide to the pilot who announced I'VE
will fly until we DROP
Lifting itself into the air at 6:O5
a. m, New York daylight time, the
plane was over the Atlantic, off New
England, less than three hours later.
,ound probably for Berlin"
If Clarence d. Chamberiin and his
Dacker-passenger, Charles A. Levine.
don't reach Berlin, they will go some
place else, they said. At any rate.
hey assured the 200 who saw them
off" ut the flying field, they would
beat the nonstop flight record of
Charles A. Lndbergh. New York to
Paris in 33 hours and 20 minutes,
) ,76O miles.
Chamberlin, VINO left wi.hout 4
navigator in order to take along his
friend Levine, who left in such a
hurry he did not pack his hat, is
'out for distance"--Berlin is 600
miles further than Paris-and he has
a background Of having stayed in the
air on an endurance flight longer
than any other aviator in the world
except the man that went up with
him for more than 81 flying hours
at stretch.
Has Three Characteristics
Clarence Chamberlin, blonde,
quiet natured young man. a
native of Iowa, has shown the three
characteristics Of great pilots-nerve
skill in face of death, and reticence
His passenger, Mr.. Levine, managing
director of the Columbia Aircraft
who bore the brunt of
attack because of litigation over the
plane and who should be naviga-
tor, won a reputation for "gameness'
in one step.
The step was one into the enclosed
cabin, giving no word of warning t.
anyone that he was planning any
thing other than little trial fligh,
before Chamberlin and some "un.
known" and "yet to be selected
navigator buckled down to the Ions
flight to laurels further off in poin'
of mileage than Lindbergh.
Off in Two Starts
1t took two starts to get going thi.
morning. The plane, with Levin,
"out for little spin," TAXED dow
the runway, as newspaper men
photographers and bystanders stoos
by. Then it was towed back again
A few moment later, the taxing
starting over again and at the ent
Of the runway, the craft SCARED
$3.50 pounds, Of which the plan,
amounted to only 1850 pounds. Mr.
Levine, who is not credited navi
gator. is, however, more than pas
senger. For he will be able to tax,
the stick should Chamberlin requir,
a few hours nap.
Hundreds See Take-Off
Several hundred spectators stoos
around the Columbia as it was being