Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-22
Eight Fiers Finish
Cross Country Trip
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nation for computation of the elapsed
time of any of the contestants in this
flight was unavailable, Mr.. Golf said
that since Meyers was first out each
morning all the way across the course,
and in one case at least half on hour
ahead of sis nearest competitor, he
was confident he would prove to be
the winner of the first prize OF $4,000.
On the same basis he figured Leslie
Miller of Des Moines, would be Sec
ond. and the winner of the $4,000
prize, and j. S. Charles of Richmond,
Va, third, with $1,000 prize. Charles
was the first of the class B New York
fliers to arrive, coming in at 2:22.
Meyers was second. at 2:34, and
Eugene Detmer of Tarrytown, N. Y,
was the third arrival, at 2:42. Miller
arrived fourth at 3:O2.
The five other arrivals in this race
were: W. H. Emery, Jr., Bradford, Pa,
S:06; e. G. Knapp, Ypsilanti, Mich,
3:25; Jack Ashcraft, 1Owanda, Pa,
AIT; K r. Unger, Madison, N. j.,
4:43, and G. B. McNGahan, Miles City,
Mont, Sis.
Five other contestants in the New
York class B race were at MiSSoula,
Mont, tonight, and were to be held
there until 10 q. M tomorrow before
resuning their journey to Spokane.
c. L. Langdon of Aberdeen, WASH,
first of the class B coast derby flierS
to reach this city, came in winner at
SOL. The next man, D. G. Warren OF
San Francisco, game in nearly 20
minutes later, and Lee Wiley, of Los
! Angeles, followed him by nearly seven
minutes.
Their elapsed time placed them in
that standing in the race, Langdon
having - hours to his credit, Warren
18 minutes more, and Wiley 8 minutes
more than Langdon
Mr.. Goff estimated tonight on the
basis of elapsed time Holman, winner
of the class A New York races averaged
137.6O4 miles an hour; Ballotgh aver
aged 1850 and Manner 123.428. e
N-STOP RACE
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y, Sept.
21 P)-Two airplaneS were hurtEng
westward tonight in 2,300-mile nom
stop race across the continent to
Spokane Wash They left behind a
third entrant, whose heavy-laden
plane failed to rise for the take-off.
Eddie Stinson, Detroit plane manu-
kfacturer, the first entrant to take off,
lifted his black and yellow plane into
Che air at 2 p. m. eastern standard
htime, and the race was on.
Some minutes later, G.. A. (Duke)
Schiller, of Windsor, Ontario, peering
out of the cockpit of the "Royal
| windsor y a plane once groomed for a.
Elight over the Atlantic, saw the start
er's red flag and opened his throttle.
He took the air gracefully at 2:11.
Then came a long wait, for Steve
Lacy, of Lon1ax, Ills, had not brought
his plane to the field. It was towed
over from Curtiss field, mile away,
half an hour after Stinson's plane had
! taken the air. Last minute adjust
>nents of the motor were made and
gasoline wa spoured into the tanks. Al
! 4 o'clock Lacy opened the throttle and
sped down the runway The plane
Twas seen to struggle for a grip on the
i air, but it kept bouncing along the
| runway. At the far end Of the plank
| ing, down which Col Charles A. Lind
bergh. Clarence D. Chamberlain and
Bert Acosta, as pilot of Commander
Richard E. Byrd's america" had
raced as they began their famous
trans Atlantic flights, Lacy's plane al
most crashed into gulley.
! Into that gulley, just a year ago
today, Sikorsky plane in which Cap
tain Rene Fonck was to attempt a
flight to Paris, crashed with four men
aboard. Two died when the, plane
caught fire, but Lacy's plane was kept
upright, suffering only the loss of a
4 tail skid. When starting Officials
learned that it would take two hours
to replace the tail skid, Lacy was
eliminated.
i This left Stinson and Schiller COM
\ peting for the first prize OF $4,000
and the second of $4,000.
Both Stinson and Schiller had "com-
pany'' for their race through the ether.
With Stinson was Koehler, test pilot
from Stinson's Detroit factory. With
Schiller was Edward Bohn, OF ST Louis
Both are capable of relieving the pilots
during the long hours of the nonstop
flight.
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