Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29

more and passed close by the ship,
but we could make out nothing either
OF her OF the town.
Later we learned that this was
Plymouth. Although the inhabitants
saw us. we could make out nothing.
At length the fog lifted and we saw
below us a small village huddled near
the sea. In some respects the country
resembled Ireland, but we also saw al
old castle and figured it might be
France. Remembering that Lind
bergh'S attempt to communicate with
sailors on fishing boats off Ireland by
shouting to them had proved unsuc-
cessful. we hit upon another plan.
On leaving Newfoundland we had
taken with us two thermos bottles.
one filed with water and the other
with coffee, and bag containing two
sandwiches apiece and few oranges.
OF these Bill Brock had eaten moth
ing. though I had had two oranges
and a sandwich the night before.
/ wrote a note on a piece of card
board asking that they write the
name of the town and that of the
country in the sand tied a piece of
cloth around the cardboard and threw
il from the plane. l watched it fall
among a crowd of people, but no one
paid any attention TO it.
Writes Second Note.
We circled around over the town
again While | wrote a second note.
This time l placed it in a paper sack,
which l weighed down with an
orange, and threw it over. The added
weight Of the orange attracted atten-
ton to the second note. The natives
ND of hn
town. Seaford. Devon, on an asphalt
street, writing with chalk in large
letters. At the same time they hoisted
the Union Jack on a tlagpole
While we had great difficulty in
making out the name of the town. we
could tell from what we saw that evi-
IDENTIFY it was an English name. and
the sight of the British flag convinced
US that we were over England.
We flew on. still trying to get bet
ter bearings, but without success. At
last we saw a railroad with a train
approaching, so we raced alongside
the train and made out the name
Great Western on the locomotive. but
while this served as a further proof
that we We're in England it didn't
help much toward getting ourselves
oriented. Finally we came to Daw-
lisp and were able to make out the
name on a railroad station and find
our position on map. The rest was
easy. We headed for London and
had no difficulty whatsoever in find |
ing Croydon. 1t felt mighty good to
put my feet on good old British terra
firma again, and we certainly got
fine reception.
Brock "Tickled to Death"
Bill Brock was tickled to death |
when we were finally able TO locate |
ourselves on the map. The first thing |
he said to me was We'll, we crossed |
1t. then he ate the first food he |
had taken since we left Newfound- |
land. He ate ha,f of one sandwich |
and tossed the rest away,
He was tired out when we reached |
London. and no wonder. 1t was a |
nerve-racking job trying to hold that |
plane on her course in such weather |
as we encountered.
| relieved him a few times-I've |
been flying only since August 10
at least, that was the first time | |
ever had a stick in my hand But |
piloted the plane all the way from |
Old Orchard to Harbor- Grace. AS |
soon as we got into the air Brock |
turned the plane over to me. We hit |
Harbor-G Grace right on the nose and |
were not off our course over a point |
This world trip did not occur to |
me until last June. Then while flying !
with some friends who We're discus |
sing Lindbergh's great feat. l said | |
would like to go around the world |
in a plane. My friends laughed: SO |
| determined to prove to them that |
it could be done. | am confident that |
it will be only a matter of few |
years until we have regular trans
atlantic service, not in one or two |
years perhaps, but five or ten.
Just at present the United States is |
suffering from reaction of the loss
of lives on the Dole flight. l think |
it was great mistake to permit !
Miss Doran. in fact. any girl. to take |
part in such flight 1t stands to !
reason that when "A girl is aboard a
plane if anything happens, a man is
naturally going to look after her
first. To do this it is often neces-
sary TO neglect more important
things.
But the principal lesson to be
learned from the unhappy endings of
these flights is the need of govern
mental regulation of such attempts
in the future. More than one of the
planes that started in that race was
not fit to take part in such COM
petition and should never have been
permitted to enter / hope we shall
soon have legislation making similar
flights impossible.
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