New Britain herald., 1928-09-14
ALL Planes SAFE
IN Big AIR DERBY
Go'bd Only One to Reach
Los Angeles

Mines Field. Los Angeles, Sept II
N1rhe elements today stood victor
In the non-stop transcontinental air
derby. feature event Of the national
air race meet In progress here. and
332.Soe posted for tho first four
hnishefs In the event remained with
race o6teials-
None Of the nine planes which
hoped from Roosevelt Field. N. T..
reached their goal without a stop.
though for time yesterday it was
thought Art Goebel. holder Of the
wsst-to-east nonstop record. had
won first prize.
0osbel. winner Of the Dole air
race from Oakland to Hawaii last
August. was the sole pilot to reach
Mines Field. landing here At 1870 p.
m. Pacific standard time amid =
great outburst Of applause from the
crowd.
Bumpy Landing
Following the outburst, however.
and confusion attendant with his
rather bumpy landing. Goebel re-
vealsd he had been disqualified by
Z landing at Prescott. Ariz.. earlier
in the day. when he grounded to ad-
just 4 faulty carburetor and to take
on additional gasoline.
He brought 4 story OF 4 bitter
battle over the Rocky mountains
during which his white Lockheed-
Vega monoplane met fierce head
winds. and rain and sleet storms.
The craft. the Yankee Doodle"
bore evidence Of the violence Of the
storm. one cabin door being torn
away.
Goebel landed % hours and So
minutes after his take off in New
York. which time, despite the hour
and 10 minutes he was on the
ground In Arizona, was three hours
better than the east-to-west non-
stop record o. Is hours so minutes
IS Is seconds set by Lieuts Oakley
q. Kelly and John 4. Macready in
1929.
Captain George Haldeman, Ruth
Elders pilot on her attempted
transatlantic flight, was the last
plane down n the derby. coming to
earth 1t b:OS p. M, mountain time
yesterday at Albuquerque. N. NJ. on
account Of gasoline shortage.
A single sccident marred the race
when John p. Morris. pilot, and Col.
William Thw, End. navigator. both
of Pittsburgh. crashed into a fence
after I broken oil line had forced
their Lockaeed-Vega plane down at
Decatur. nd. yesterday morning.
Both men were seriously hurt.
Pilot Mayer in his orange Buhl-
Sesqut plume. was the only one of
the constants to choose the north
ern routs and ran into ugly weather
over Wyoming that brought him
down alter he had assumed q
strategic lead in the flight.
Ice Forms
Croasng above Rawlings. Wyom-
ing. yeterday morning after a long
hard attic with storms and SHOWS,
the Spokane pilot was forced down
with CO forming on his carburetor.
He lhded at $3.50 =. M. mountain
time.
Aleaky valve on an emergency
gas tank forced Lieut.. Jack Else
MAJ Of the Rockaway naval air sta
ito, flying Charles A. Levine's
trnsatlantic Bellanca plane, Tho
Csumbia," to descend at Amarillo.
Teas. Emil Hard Luck" Burgin OF
Mneola. N. ". landed in a corn
Md ut Willard. N. NJ.
oliver lie Boutillier of East Or
.nge. N. j.. returned to Roosevelt
Field soon after the take of: Cliff
ford McMillin Of Syracuse. N. Y,
landed At Chase, Pa. and Randolph
Page. Of Worthwhile. Michigan. land
I'd At Allentown. Pa.
1900 At Field
About 5000 persons were on the
field when Goebel landed his plane,
the Yankee Doodle. Goebel and his
passenger. Harry Tucker OF Santa
Monica, the planes owner, made
their way to a hut at the side of the
ield and told how they had narrow
~ averted accident on the long hop
several times during the night |
thought we were gone" Tucker said.
There goes everything" GoebeI
started OF. That's what l said TO
Harry when l had to set the Yankee
Doodle down In that desert al
Prescott.
Breaks Of Weather
Just half an hour more gas and
Id have won.
But those are the breaks you get
some times from the weather up
there. ! had two hours flying from
Prescott to Mines Field and / had
an hour and a half gas supply.
thought of trying to make 1t on my
luck. thought for 80 minutes after
We passed Prescott the first time.
realized ! couldn't squeeze gas for
the Wasp motor that wasn't in the
tanks. and turned back. There you
are
Storm? Say the trip was just one
whole storm. Why. l never had a
chance to look at map from the
time took off until l hit Wichita"
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