Evening star., 1927-08-16
GERMANS UNLIKELY
TO TRY NEW FLIGHT
Junkers' Official Says Trip
May Be Dropped Owing
to Advanced Season.
BY the Associated Press.

DESSAU. Germany. August 10
| Prospects for another attempt at a
| transatlantic flight are extremely
| slight owing to the advanced sea ason
| one of the directors of the .Junkers
| firm told the Associated Press today.
| lie added that even from the first nc
| flight was contemplated extending be
yond md-AuGust.
| ''Of course our pilots are all enthu
siasm for another try" he said. refer.
ring to the failure Of the planes
| Bremen and Europa, which were turn
| ed back by adverse weather on their
| first attempt. But their views neces
| sorily are subordinate Ito those who
are financing the flight enterprise"
THE underlying idea Of the flight
was not to make it sporting event
but to establish basis for coming
transoceanic aircraft, perhaps in con
nection with shipping.
One Plane i'm Future Trys.
(The North German Lloyd Steam.
| ship Co. is one of the financial hackers
of the Junkers transa tlantic expedi,
tom Therefore a second failure
would enormously harm the trans
atlantic flight idea.
NIIOulu, contrary III cNDPCldt IONS,
another flight he decided upon, it
would he with only one plane, as it
has been proved that the pilots of two
machines have great difficulty in keep
ing in touch with each other"
Herman koehl of the crew Of the
Bremen told the correspondent: THE
trip was a great experience. | shall
try again. i will fly to America if |
n frv
Passenger "Air Sick"
Referring to Baron Gunther Won
Huenfeld of the North German Lloyd,
who was the passenger on the Bremen,
Koehl added, jocularly: Won Huen-
field was terribly air sick most of the
time. l simply had to turn hack to
end the poor fellows agony"
1t was announced today that the
Bremen had covered 1900 kilometers
Q,9SS miles, during it's 22.hour flight.
The technical staff of the Junkers
works and the four pilots met at the
council table today
The real dangers that beset the air.
men in their unsuccessful attempt be-
came known when koehl and Loose
returned to Dessau. Fog and wind
prompted the decision to turn back
after the Bremen had gone a little he
yond the west coast of Irela nd. Ed.
zard and Risticz. who were forced to
land their plane, the Europa, al Bre-
men after encountering storm and fog.
reached Dessau about the time the
Brcmen landed.
kOehl described the storm and fog
ridden night; how the winds toyed
with the Bremen, lifting it and push.
ing it down 90 that at times the plane
barely missed the tops Of trees.
Twice the Bremen got out OF con.
troll" he said, although the magnetos
functioned perfectly. Because of the
divergence of our route and the fact
that our battle with the winds forced
us to use up our fuel at an excessive
rate, we resolved to return after haT-
ing negotiated the west coast of Ire.
land"
1t was AGO o'clock yesterday after
noon, German time. when the Bremen
made a perfect landing at the Dessa II
airfieId, having been in the air %
hours. AS there had been no accu-
rate information after she had been
reported sighted over Ireland. the off
cials of the Junkers Works were taken
by surprise.
Flyers Win Praise.
Prof Hugo Junkers expressed
pleasure also over the excellent man
ner in which the aviators had guided
the plane under difficult circum
stances.
Other aofTicials and aviation experts
described the flight as a splendid ex'
hibition of airmanship.
Baron Gunther Won Huenfeld. a
former Junkers pilot. who was aboard
the Bremen AS a passenger. described
how the airmen zigzagged over Ire
land vainly seeking a passage to the
Atlantic, even flying beyond the Aron
| Islands. on the west coast of Ireland
off Donegal.
"It was with heavy hearts that we
made up our minds to retrace our
way" he said. "Nor We're we recon
ciled TO this measure until so much of
our fuel was used up that the pros
pect of reaching America was out of
the question. We had even reckoned
with the necessity of making an in
termediate landing on the return
fight. and it was only because we
succeeded in throttling the motor
while flying before the wind and saw
ing fuel that we were able to make
Dessau in a nonstop flight.
Promoters Criticized.
Certain of The Berlin newspapers,
while not withholding praise of the
pilots pluck in the unsuccessful trans
atlantic attempts. sharply criticize to-
day what they term the precipitancy
of the promoters in starting the flight.
The Allgemeine Zeitung declares the
attempt should never have been start
ed in view Of the had weather reports
and without wireless sending equip
ment and experienced operators
aboard the planes. Disregard OF such
elementary precautions it adds.
amounts to criminal neglect.
1t would also have been better. the
paper believes, to fix the goal as sim
ply the first accessible point on the
American Continent instead of New
York. which is more than 600 miles
farther away, or the even more dis
tant Chicago.
Germania in a similar strain. com
plains that there was too much or 4
stunt" about the flight. The object
| it continues, should not be to 'pander
10 the public praise for sensational
! record breaking" but to make trans
| oceanic flying n practicable business
| proposition. For this purpose, it be-
iieves, single motored planes are eft
! tirely Inadequate.
| All the papers, however, are en-
| phatic in declaring that another at