Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-06
AV|IAT()RS
DEFEATED
By STORM
Spectacular Rome to Ar
gentine Flight Sets Up
New Record.
SAFE IN BR A I'LL
Big Plane Slightly DAM
aged In Forced Landing
on Beach.
By U. G. KEENER
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 6.-Two
calm Italian flyers, Major Arturo
Ferrarin and Carlo Del Prete today
had established new long distance
flight record in mOmentous 432i
mile trip from Rome to Senitabau
Beach, near Natal, Brazil.
They landed there at 7:15 p. m.
last night unable to locate the big
landing field where they could get
supplies for their plane.
A national telegraph message re.
ceived here shortly after 6 a. m.
said that Ferrarin and Del Prete
landed at Touros north of Natal
and that Ferrarin asked local
authorities for an automobile to
take them to Natal.
The flyers had been in the air
4 hours and 81 minutes when they
first landed on the Natal municipal
beach
They had broken the long distance
flight record made by Clarence
Ghamberlin and Charles A. Levine
who flew 1909 miles to Germany
from New York last year.
The flight of these two former
Italian war flyers was as spectacular
as it was carefully planned.
The grey Savoia Marchetti mono'
plane, capable of $50 miles an hour,
! had been prepared secretly for the
| great flight. AS a preliminary test
I the two airmen took the machine
] 81 - 4 : /, flInhF
/ record of Captain George Haldeman
and Eddie Stinson.
Started Tuesday
Then they pronounced the craft
ready for its great challenge of the
! South Atlantic.
Tuesday evening the craft was
loaded with its five and one half
tens of fuel, with sandwiches, wines,
! coffee, and fruit and the flyers APP
pealed for a start. Reports from the
ocean said that flying conditions
were not the best.
Ferrarin met this reply with a
shrug of his shoulder.
At $50 p. III. Rome time, the
motors of the great plane were roar
ing and ut 5:j1 p. M. the plane was
away.
The plane made terrific speed. It
Thirled through the unknown air
course at speed ranging from 122
to 137 miles an hour.
Constant radio communications
we're maintained with Rome, with
land stations and with ships at
! sea.
Ferrarin and Del Prete had de-
tcrmined on Buenos Aires as their
destination and yesterday afternoon
when the craft first appeared over
Irazil, the two Italians struck n
direct course down the coast, hop
ing to continue their memorable
flight to Buenos Aires-a distance
Of about 1000 miles.
Circle At Natal
The aviators were sighted ap-
preaching Natal from a northeaster.
ly direction. They were at an alti.
tude of about l,2O0 feet and over
the city they descended sharply to
:, height of between 400 and 600
feet.
The plane circled the city once,
then started southwark.
At 7:l5 ?. m. the plane returned
to Senitabu Beach and made land
ing. 1t was pointed out here that
probably the aviators had been look
ing for the Lateceoer airfield dur
ing the afternoon and failing to
find 1T had started southwark, hop
ing to reach Rio De Janeiro.
Presumably then the flyers start
cd searching for the most likely
landing spot and this resulted in
their landing on the beach.
Finding no one to welcome them
there, they decided to continue
southwark and took off from tho
smooth, flat, beach and again head
ed south hoping to find more favor.
/ able landing place.
south Of Natal they encountered
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