Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-06-29

(By The Canadian Press)
HALIFAX, n. s., June
20. - Commander Richard
z. Byrd, in his monoplane
America covered the length
Of Nova Scotia today on his
nonstop flight to Paris in
three hours and thirty min
utes, bettering Col. Charles
Lindbergh's time by one hour
and five minutes.
The America arrived off
the coast of Nova Scotia at
10 a. m. eastern daylight
time, and left the northeast
ern tip Of the province at
1:30.
Chamberlin' : time in the
Columbia was much slower
than that of either the "Spir-
it Of st. Louis OF the Am
erica
Improving weather condi-
tions favored the fliers as
they headed for New Found
land in brilliant sunshine and
with no fog in sight.
(By The Associated Pressl
Over the wild wastes of the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
American aviators were flying
today seeking TO win new
laurels of the air.
Commander Rich a j d f..
Byrd with Lieutenant George
O. Neville, Brent Balchen and
Bert Acosta, hoped off in
the three motored Fokker
monoplane America at 5:24
o clock, eastern daylight time,
this morning for a nonstop
flight to Paris. Three hours
after the start the seven ton
machine with the four men
under its single FURNISHED
wing were sighted at sea sew
enty miles northeast of Cape
Cod. Mass, by the 5. S. Stav-
angerfjord. The America was
making one hundred miles an
hour.
ROOSEVELT FIELD, n. ", June
29.--'Pf-Commandcr Richard +.
Byrd and his three-man crew took
off on their long delayed scientific
air expedition 10 France in the mono
plane America at dawn today.
The great three motored Fokkcf
took the air nj 5.24 o'clock eastern
daylight time. just as seconds after
being released from the top OF the
runway where il had been tied The
past six days while unfavorable
weather forbade q flight.
The storms that have blocked n
flight during the more than a
month and half that the Byrd
plane has been waiting at the field
seemed last night 70 be as grea. fan
obstacle as ever. But in the early
hours of the morning Commander
byrd suddenly announced that des-
pite the weather mans report he
had decided to leave.
Immediately there was great
hustle Of preparation around the
I hangar and runway and last prePara-
tions were made for the third time
in week.
Everything wen- forward in q bush
ness-like manner and shortly before
five o'clock Commander Byrd with
his crew. Bert Acostn. George Neville
and Brent Balchen. drove out a. the
| plane. r. Harold kinkade. Nrigh.
motor expert. climbed aboard and
tuned up the motors.
The crew waved a last farewell
climbed to their places and sIgnalled
10 give her the gun "A mrchanic
standing behind the plane slaskei nj
the restraining rope rs the engines
roared and the great ship shot dow N
the incline and whirred across the
4 field in the misty light Of rainy
dawn.
| Six-tenths OF a mile ii drove across
the field and then slowly a. though
the men inside were lighting her up
ward BY main strength. u flcatec
upward and SCARED into the air.
Rumor Fifth Man
The take off was the oycasiun 81
u rumor that Kinkadc hah slowed
himself away a a fifth man in the
! plane. Yesterday afternoon BYRD
had tcld him that he would like "a
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