Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-24
Nations Fighting for Air Records

aircraft carriers, % submarines and 8
tenders scanned $4,000 square miles
OF Pacific waste and steamed a total
of 1925 miles. Seaplanes flew 5000
miles. More than 3.75l .050 gallons Of
fuel were consumed in this search.
In answer to Old Glory's SOS,
four large vessels wandered from their
courses. They were the Transatlantic,
Carmaria, Lapland and California.
| Fourteen ship lookouts searched the
| seas with binoculars and sea glasses.
| II cost navigation companies something
| like SOC, 900 to conduct this search.
An outstanding enthusiast over long
distance flying is Sir Alan Gotham.
who himself holds many notable rec
ortis, among them a 28000-mile round
trip journey between England and Aus
tralia.
Sir Alan observes that aviation en-
gines on blocks have been run continu-
ously for 100 hours, equivalent to one
third the distance around the world
He believes there is actually less wear
and tear on a machine in motion than
when standing idle on the ground.
In Sir Alan's opinion. en- ideal trip
would be an around-the- world flight
in an air yacht. Such Journey would
cost four persons only 100000, one
| half the amount for the machine and
| the rest for food and fuel.
I'VE have learned much from long
distance flights" Sir Alan said recent
| ly. II should not, for instance. under
| take one without a metal body and
| floats i've found that wooden pom
toons leak badly. On months air
water journey wooden hull absorbs as
much as 800 pounds Of water
ION my recent trip from Australia
| Naa hi
| stiff wind but 1t was so blisteringly hot
| that 1t scared the skin like white hot
| flame.
when air reaches blood heat the
wind seems much hotter, and the faster
| one travels against this wind the more
| difficult 1t Is to resist its effect. I'd
rather fly through freezing air than
| that kind OF heat.
"Of all the record flights yet to be
made, a round-the-w world cruise Glong
practical. everyday route would be
the sterling test for aviation. II would
mean flying about $4,000 miles In all
kinds OF weather. through fog, hail.
rain, snow and wtndstorrn. Yet / be-
lieve it can be done in a large flying
boat operating as an independent unit
and relying on certified land stations
for supplies OF food and fuel"
|
| A MONG long-distance flights that
have added glory TO aviation is one
made by the R~34. British dirigible
commanded by Mai, G.. ii. Scott of the
/ British air forces. Starting from East
Fortune. Scotland the huge bag
reached Mineola, Long Island. 10a
hours later. with all but few gallons
| of fuel spent. The distance covered
was $3.50 miles. The return TO Pull
ham, England. was made In 70 hours
In October. 1924, the zR-3, now the
Los Angeles, crossed the Atlantic from
Friedrichshafen. Germany, To the Lake
hurst Naval Station in New Jersey The
flight was 5000 miles long and took
slightly more than 81 hours to complete,
!, But the ZR-3s commander claimed TO
have had enough fuel to go as far as
| Chicago.
The French dirigible Dixmude few
from Maraeiile to the edge of the Sa-
hara Desert In 1923, covering 4,500
miles In 1l8 hours and Al minutes.
In 1924 feet of United states Army
| planes fiew around the world. covering
16.l03 miles In ITS days, They crossed
the North Atlantic in two hops, from
Iceland to Greenland and Greenland
| 10 Labrador.
| In 1925 Pinedo few from Rome to
Japan and back. some "a, 900 miles He
followed this trip with a flight from
Rome to Africa and the two Americas,
Near the end OF 1925 Sir Alan Cob
ham became the hero OF his native