Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-23

ing to do it,"
"One more thing" he said Il think
that my experience solves definitely
the mystery of what happened to the
lost Dole racers l had biplane, and
it was only by the sheerest luck that
survived what 1 went fhrolfgh A
monoplane is much less stable than a
biplane; it wouldn't have had chance
in the weather that turned me over
You can see what must have hap
pened."
Giles made his perfect three point
landing at San Simeon at 800 o'clock
/! this afternoon, eight hours after Giles
/ had hoped from Mills field in a per-
feet take-off.
From the moment he passed the
Farallone islands he was lost. Ships
at sea kept sharp lookouts for him
but reported nothing. Uneasiness be-
gan to grow as the hours passed and
the ships he should have passed failed
to report him.
"The weather was fine until 1 got
about 300 miles out, when it started
getting bad Cloudy with rain squalls,
said the flier, land I began to feel
those air pockets they have out there
over the Pacific-the same things that
must had spelled curtains for Jack
, Frost and Bill Erwin and Auggy Ped
! lar and Miss Doran, you know.
"It wasn't bad enough to stop me
though; I figured I'd get through. But
my luck was out-or maybe it in.
Four hundred and eighty miles out,
ran into utterly foul weather. The
clouds were very thick and low and
there were incessant rain squalls
There wasn't much wind, but the
pockets were awful.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov % CP) =
Captain Frederick A. Giles hoped Off
from Mills field, San Francisco, at
7:34 a. M, today to fly to Wheeler
field on the Hawaiian island OF Oahu
This was to be the first ocean lap OF
his proposed flight TO wellington, New
Zealand, by way of the Samoan and
Fiji islands and Australia.
Misfortune beset him from the time
he started out in Detroit, Mich, where
w. H. Rosewarne. Detroit business
man and Giles financial backer, lives.
The plane was damaged in a forced
landing at Hobart, Ind, and again at
Elko, New, while attempting to take
off for San Francisco. Parts OF the
plane were shipped to San Francisco
for repairs, and, after several delays
on account of bad weather, the start
was made today. Giles flew out to
sea last Saturday intending to reach
the Hawaiian islands. He was forced
to dump his gasoline and turn back
F! 20 miles outside the Golden Gate be-
cause of the heavy fog.
The biplane Giles flew had an open
I cockpit, a single Wright radial motor,
and carried no radio or life raft. The
! captain depended upon Instability to
pilot his ship and navigate himself
along the course that had been plotted
cut for him by marine and aviation
/, experts here. He was to depend sole
ly upon charts showing the approx
mate position of vessels on his course
! at certain hours, and without these
charts he had nothing to guide nm,
for he did not carry sextant.
BY "air pockets" the flier referred 70
/ differences in density in the air. HIS
term that his plane went "hayWlre
was aviators' slang, meaning that II
went completely out of control.
FINALLY my ship, dropped into one
OF these pockets and before I knew
it she was upside down." the ocean
! flier said.
'"rhe cas- in the maintanks was then
overloaded, you know. Even Tor nor
! NAL flying it was a strain on the SNIP
but in the inverted position, the strain
Twas tripled. So, whilst we were flying
there inverted, the center section prac-
! ing wires snapped,
| IT man9 qed to right the ship at the
critical moment, although whilst we
/ we're inverted, I lost all my cnarCs
food and signal flares. I dumped my
gas then, with the bracing wires gone
SO as to relieve the load.
"I only dumped the main tanks,
keeping enough in the wings to tly
me back to the COAST hoped. ]
made a rough guess After sighting the
shore about 60 miles north OF Where
| finally landed found a landlng place
in. creek bed at San Simeon.
honestly never expected to make the
/ mainland, was simply flying against
hope, in desperation, that's all.
Giles first act after being escorted
by ranch employees to the ranch house
at San Simeon, was to dictate tele-
grams to his friends, advising OF his
safety. One of the first was a long
wirci to Bartless tSephens, the young
assistant superintendent at San Fran
cisco's airport, paraphrasing the story
he told the examiner.
Late this afternoon arrangements
had not yet been completed as to
Giles immediate future plans. He eX-
pressed the desire to start at once for
San Francisco, but indicated that he
might remain at the San Simeon
ranch over night to rest and to make
further inspection of his plane in
the morning, before starting north.
Sure youlltry again?" he was ask
eel again.
"Sure-soon as the ships fixed and
! the moon is full he repeated.
Giles went through his terrific over