New Britain herald., 1927-08-29
tha two aviator. was T. H. Kinkade.

the two aviators was T. H. Kinkade, representative of the Wright Aero nautical corporation. who had been listening for the Pride of Detroit's' motor hum for nearly six hours. Then Dallas Eskell, traffic manager of the Imperial Airways. extended to the two Americans the freedom of the port.
 Schlee and Brock for moment stood as though they were embar- rassed, not knowing exactly what to do Neither did anyone else momen- tarily, so finally the police thought the handful of people were doing too much crowding and began push ing the spectators back. Having in mind the great crowd which turned out to greet Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, the police were on hand in goodly numbers. As matter Of fact there were nearly as many bob bes as all the other persons com- bined, so the bobbies had no diff cufty in handling the situation. Less than an hour after Schlee and l Brock had come to London there were more people at the alrdrome than when they arrived. This prob | ably was due to the fact that the Sunday newspapers, which gave the l flight considerable first page space, calculated that the flyers would ar rive between II and 12 o'clock but even at noon there were not more than 500 on hand in the region Of the airdrome, which, when Lind bergh arrived from Paris, had some hundred thousand to contend with, Bad Weather On Way
 The flyers experienced all kinds ot weather en route. First it was spien- | did flying weather for three hours off Newfoundland, then they en- countered fog. mist, sleet and ram storms at intervals all the way along ! for more than 1900 miles. The worst lap of the flight, however, was late last night or early this morn ing when the ran into terrific wind storm, accom- panied by rain which at times attained the degree of tem-
 pest. It lasted between four and five hours and became very dark.
 We were absolutely blinded said Brock. We could not see a thing. The night was black at pitch. l never saw the beat of it." and Schlee agreed with him.
 Didn't Recognize England
 The two fliers thought the joke Of their whole trip was the fact that they did not recognize England when they saw it.
 You sec" said Schlee. "it was daybreak when we first saw land and for the life of us we couldn't make out the coastline. This was some where near Plymouth. Then we be- gan cruising around until sunrise and decided to drop note requesting our | location"
 | It was near Seaton where Brock dropped the note asking what coun- try they were over and requesting the Coast Guard or others to write the name of the locality in the sand. But this did not work out very we'll as the sand writers wrote Seaton, which is 8 little bathing re- sort with big expectations. but Sea ton did not show on their map. | When the Union Jack was flown down below the flyers took another peep at their map and made out | their location.
 Describing their experience over Devon and Cornwall. Schlee said, I've were at the height of about half a mile above the thick clouds for about three hours. We were lost in fact Then we saw mighty Tilt in the rolling, drifting mass below and through it we saw as through window a patch of green.
 countryside. This was our nrst sight of England, and that green did look good.
 This was about 7:30 o'clock Greenwich Mean Time. Schlee. wiry, clean-shaven, fair haired man of 3s. who even this morning did not appear more than 35, continued: