The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-18
Amelia Earhart First of Sex
to Accomplish Great
Air Feat.
FEW MILES FROM GOAL
Boston Aviatrix and Two
Aids Plan to Hop Again
for Southampton. !
BY LEONARD SMITH
United Press Special Correspond dent

Unlted fresS Speclal correspondent
BURRYPORT, Wales, June
18.-The transatlantic mono-
plane Friendship, with Miss
Amelia Earhart, first woman 10
make trans-ocean flight, as CO.
pilot, landed safely in BURY in
let, Bristol channel, at 12:45
p. m. today, after a flight Of
1000 miles from Trepassey bay,
N. F..
Shortage of gasoline caused the
Friendships landing 1876 miles from
Southampton, its destination.
Arrangements were made at once
to obtain gasoline and it was
planned to continue to Southamp-
ton late today if the weather was
favorable.
Wilmer Stultz, who with Lou
Gordon, mechanic, completed the
crew of the Frienship, told the
United Press correspondent, after
he and his companions had been
taken to Burryport, off which the
plane landed, that he had been
flying blind for eight hours before
the landing.
Fail to See Ireland
I'VE failed entirely to see Ire
land" Stultz, the chief pilot said.
1--WE did not know where we were
when we landed.
1--WE thought we were in the
vicinity of Lands End, but did not
know our location definitely until a
motorboat came out from Burryport
to meet us.
aside from that we had no real
trouble.
Everybody aboard was all right
when the Friendship landed, al
though we all are very tired.
"The weather during the entire
flight was cloudy.
"At 4:30 a. m. today we lost our
bearings and came down to within
400 feet.
Try to Drop Messages
1--WE tried to drop messages to a
liner CThe America) to get our posi-
ton, but could not get either one
of them aboard. (The America re-
ported this incident as occurring
seventy miles east of Queenstown,
Ireland)
"We are in fine shape, and can
proceed to Southampton, our desti-
nation, whenever we are ready"
The Friendship landed about a
mile and a half offshore. From the
excited crowd watching the giant
plane, an emergency crew was
selected and a motorboat sped out
to the plane.
"Where are we?" asked Miss Ear
hart and Stultz in unison, as the
boat drew up alongside.
Captain Fisher, in command of
the motorboat, found Miss Earhart,
Stultz and Gordon in normal con-
dition, but very tired.
Stultz, as soon as he got ashore,
began consulting maps to find his
exact location, and then telephoned
to Southampton, to the agents of
the Friendship there.
Makes 100 Miles an Hour
The Friendship completed its
fight in twenty hours flfty-four
minutes, averaging almost exactly
100 miles an hour. Favorable winds
thus increased its normal cruising
speed by ten miles an hour.
The plane left Boston fifteen days
ago for Trepassey and had been held
there until 9:51 eastern standard
time) yesterday by discouraging
series of misfortunes.
1t left Trepassey with only 750
gallons of fuel-barely enough un-
der favorable conditions for the
planned 2,O7O-nile fight to South
ampton
Miss Earhart and her companions
now are in the district from which
Princess Anne of Lowenstein=
Wertheim, first of three women to
give ther lives in attempting the
feat Miss Earhart accomplished,
took off with two men companions
in the Inflated st. Raphael.