The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-06-29
DANCING TONIGHT HEART RIVER PAVILION Music 4: ss1eh

America, triple motored Fokker non
oplane, is patterned after the craft
tommondcr R,cnArL r.. Byrd used to
cross the Noi.h Pole bls is ;arger
IL Cares IN :.udtloa 10 Commands
Byrd. piiut aLt nasie ttof, Bert 4Acca-
Ia. P.lo., Iic,,l. G-o.g> y. Howl :.
radio ei.s.aetr, IA -.o.nt Ba. cl I.
mechan
The pane has wiE: span o. ~
feet. lent,sh o:er Al Of Is tse!
and a height IF la. i.ls. AS Ss4n.,
spread S 80 81 ,aie tsss. Ii. PITY :,
we,gns b Gao 'p,dnts and clu., ped
tor the i.lnt ~ iaris seat. AS..a,. {
pounds.
W,ta more han 1850 gallons Of
gasoline on board. Comma .ue, ly. II
estimated thai his plane ,aoiild fly
possibly ST. hours with u radius 81
more than i,tO0 mics. 5
One huge tank. sus ended from tho
wing beam instead Of being built in
the fusciagc, holds 800 gallons.
One motor Is paced Ia the nuse Of
the fuselagc, with the other two
Can Empty Cargo Quickly
The plane has a uump valvc at
tached to the m;a n tanks and in case
Of a forced LANDING the heavy cargo
of gasoline can be cmpticd in few
minutes.
Two rubber fabric boats are carried
with compressed air generators. hand
pumps, signal devices and food in Il
compartment in the rear Of the plane.
this being the last part Of the Graf,
likely to be submerged in case Of dis
Rster Fishing fO,>s, lines and bl..
arc also carried.
1t is estimated that the rubber
boats will remain afioat 80 days and
in their water light pockets are
enough food 10 last Byrd and his two
aides that period.
The America w.!l be identified in
the air without difficulty In add
ton to the Distinguishing markfoi ..e
three motors. it, name is painted in
large red. white and blue letters and
gigantic stn has Il monogram,
4ATC. in the center. these Initials
standing for the owning company.
The American Transoccanic COmpan;
NOVILLE CONNECTED
WITH ARMY AVIATION
New York June 23.-{E,-Lieut.
George Q. Neville, Y. s. N, .fiivh,
engineer and assistant pilot Of tho
America. has long been associated
with Navy aviation. He is native
of Cleveland, Ohio, where he was
born April "a, 1890. He was grad
uatcd from Central High School,
Cleveland. and in 1906 enlisted in tn
Navy, as an apprentice.
In l0lG he was sent by the Navy
Department to Columbia University
for Il course in acronauticM eng,
necring and upon completion Of The
special course was mmiss; Toned i,l
Naval Aviation in 1917
From 1917 to 1913 he WAS in naval
aviation on the Italian front, oper
ating from Porto Corsini, from which,
point was waged a campaign ADAMS
the Austrian Naval base. The ftal
ian government conferred the crorc
dc uucrra upon him for distin
guished service
Superintendent of Air Mail
In 1920 Lieutenant Neville oh
tanned leave from tho Navy TO be
come superintendent Of the United
States air mail. subsequently ne
WAS aPpOinteu The government 8 req
rcScntative at aircraft factorice
where planes for the service were
under construction.
Neville played an important parl
! in the army's Around tho Wo,,l
flight in 1924 as comma ,d.r CT the
; Labrador sector. He is primarily an
aviation fuel expert and was fli~ht
engineer for tho Byrd fitch. over he
North Pole in 1926. He was Second
in command OF the expedition, al
though hc did not maze the inmp
with Byrd and Floyd Bennett.
Byrd, Bennett and Neville have
sometimes been called "The Three
Musketeers of Aviation" The three
were pinned underneath the America
together when it crashed at Has
brouck Heights, N. d., eliminating
Bennett from this summers plans.
Byrd and Neville were injured. bu.
not as much as Bennett. Byrd and
Neville were almost run down by a
barge in the Hudson river shortly
afterward when trying out coIlap-
sible rubber life boat.
Neville was married in the sprjnr
of 1927 and makes his home in San
Francisco. His mother, Mrs. Otto
}. Neville. lives in Cleveland. where
her son was born.