Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-21
HEROIC FLIER
SHOULD REACH
COALBY Bpm.
Maintains Sch { d u e
And Route Plotted
Over Atlantic; Sight
ed Over France

NEW YORK. N. n. May IN. -sPi-
The French Gable Company am
nounccs receipt of official adviccs
saying Captain LindberEh's trans
Atlantic plane passed aver BayeuN.
On thg French coast. at \ o'clock tu-
night. French time.
BayeuN, near the coast 0f Seine
Bay, an arm of the English Chan
nel is about 100 miles from Paris.
AL his present rate Wy speed. accord
ing to dispatches thus far received.
~ should be at the LebouErt fly
ing field, his destination " slightly
more than aE hour after passing
BaycuN- shortly after y Nj m.. Paris
time.
Captain Charles Lindhergh WI near
ing his goal. The daring aviator was
reported at Dingle Harbor nn the
wcStcrnmOst tip vi ireland at 1880
o'clock eastern daylight time or
$3.50 o'clock. Greenwich time. this
afternoon, flying In the direction of
Cork.
His arduous journey over water wv
nov practically concluded and with
land. Lindbcrgh's dangers are great
~ reduced. His long hop 0f 1900
miles over the Atlantic VI over and
the greatest peril passed. Hc was
sighted but once. "A Dutch freight
~, the HiIyersum. saw him earsr to-
day, 500 miles OFF the Irish coast.
From DinEle Harb0r Lindbrrg's
course lies over Ireland for T5 miles
Fa #NHF L.M .A.
over leo miles uf sea To the south
western tip of England with N cross
Ing MI the English Channel to Cher
borg. France Then run of 200
miles over France "a LebUurErt fly
inE field and the long journey IN
over.
With good flying the American
mail pilot. IL was calculated. would
reach Paris around midnight to-
night paris time ur ". M. central
timel. DinElc Harbor was right wv
Lindhergh'R great circle course.
LONDON May Dispatch
es from three points in southwestern
ireland late this afternoon confirm
ed that Captain Charles Lindhergh.
intrepid American aviator. had span
r.
ard0Us part Of his New York Lu
Paris flight behind him.
The plane was sighted NV collier
off the southern Irish coast, later
over Amrrwick Hnrbnr and then over
Dinrlc Bay. The dispatches indicate
that. In leaving the Atlantic behind
at Smerwick Harbor Nv went south
over the Peninsula separating that
A.W.
altered his course slightly proceeding
Nm a sDuthcrly direction toward Cork
NEW YORK, NJ. MI. May 2I.--t4,-
The French Cable Company this nf-
ternuun receipt of official AdvirrN
from the British government stating
that Captain LindbcrEh was aver
Ireland, heading I'm the direction wv
Cork at 5.2O o'clock this afternoon.
Irish time
This announcement ruincidrd with
receipt VI an Associated Press dis
patch from Belfast. reporting the
sighting VII the plane over DinKle
harb0r. county Kerry. and saying
that LindDcrTh wAA headed for Cork
The time checks with the schedule
of the flight as computed here. and
AFANMNE NAFh0N AM DH AHF course
plotted hy LindbeTgh
CORK, Ireland May iRp-Thc
civic guard headquarters here has re-
ceiycd confirmation that Captain
Lindhergh's New York Paris plane
passed over Smerwirk Harbor. roun-
ty Kerry. toward Cork.
~~~--
SMEENICk HARBOE. County Ker-
MI, Ireland, May Zl.--t4i-CaptAin
LinaberEha transatlantic plane
passed over this point at an altitude
uf about / 900 feet. heading for Cork.
The machine seemed tO W. function
inE eAcellently.
Climatic conditions were favorable.
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