New Britain herald., 1927-08-15
DAMAGED
 IN FORCED LANDING
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tor The transportation ministry has been requested to assume the re- sponsibility of finding such man. Berlin. Aug. Is (UP)-The mono plane Bremen, which was believed today to be over the Atlantic on it's flight to the United States, is equipped with a radio receiving set but not a sending set. Consequently. it will be unable to send out messages or sos. calls as Commander Richard E. Byrd did on his flight from New York to Paris
 Most of the weather reports for the Junkers plane were being fur nished by the Norddeich station and North German Lloyd steamers now on the ocean.
 The Bremen is an all-metal plane with a wing spread of 5s feet, three inches. It has a single, 310horse' power, six cylinder. cooled mo- tor which weighs 6so pounds. The Bremen is made of duralu- min and preserves the original gray tone of the metal.
 When the Bremen left Dessau 1t weighed 7,752 pounds. Gasoline weighed 4,2s4 pounds, oil 173 pounds food 3S pounds, and mail Is pounds. The remainder of the net weight constituted the weight of the crew.
 It was estimated the fuel supply was sufficient to keep the plane in the air 5S hours.
 There was no indication that the crew intended to do any fasting on the way across. The Bremen car ried three thermos bottles for coffee. tea and water: fruit, bread, butter. ham and sausages. They were to make their own sandwiches.
 An apparatus was carried to distill salt water.
 The same supply was carried by the Europa.
 ems pilots. is 30 years old. He was a marine in the navy during the
 early part of the war and later took up aviation. After the war he became member of the republi- can national police force. but that
 was too tame for him. He went to
 Morocco and flew a hospital ship
 for the Spanish army. When he re-
 turned to Germany he joined the Junkers company.
 Herman Koehl, the other pilot, is 39 and one of the best pilots in Germany. He was in the air serv- ice during the war. was shot down twice, and was taken a prisoner behind the French lines the second time. He escaped and after the war
 he served short period as an off, cer in Germany's peace-tme army and for three years has been with the Lufthansa company. flying at night between Stockholm. Berlin and Koenigsberg.
 Baron Won Huenfeld. the passen- ger. was wounded severely during the war. and after that served in the consular corps in Holland. Edzard, although greatly disap-
 pointed said this morning that he | was resigned 10 the inevitable. He ferventlv hoped the Bremen had met with better luck. although he wondered how his comrades had
 fared. as he thought she must have
 met with the same weather as did
 the Europa. which they described as I terrible"
 His troubles he said, began at 1 Oldenhere and Emden. near the
 der storm broke.
 1 Soon after we passed over
 Bremen" he continued. "the wealth.
 CT thickened We were just able to
 discern the lights of the island 10
 shape our course toward Hull. Eng
 land when we got severe shaking
 up from a thunder storm. | "The visibility became worse every
 moment We lodged this way and that trying to find better conditions. |
 we fly back and go overland across
 Holland. but the weather became , steadily worse.
 ! eve faced the alternative of re-
 turning or forcing our way through
 at full speed with the grave risk of
 having to make forced landing in
 the Atlantic through insufficient 1 fuel. I think we did the right thing
 in choosing the former. although
 with extreme regret.
 l "We also found our motor work
 ing irregularly. and that decided us.
 Owing to the heavy load we carried.
 we broke our landing gear and tail of the machine when we came down,
 but the body and cabin were not
 damaged. Of course, I want to
 have another try as soon as pos
 sihle."