The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-12-28
10000 mile flight from England 20

10000 mile flight from England TO
Australia
March zl-President Coolidge pre-
sented Colonel Lindbergh with Con
gressional Medal of Honor
March .O-Major de Bernardo of Italy
set new speed record for airplanes at
1866 miles an hour
St1nSon and Haldeman made new en-
durance record of SO hours SO minutes
80 seconds.
April 12-Koehl. Won HuenereId and
Fitzmaurice hoped Off from Dublin
April l3-The Bremen aviators land
ed on Greenly island. Strait of Belle
Isle. being the first to make east
west nonstop flight across the Atlantic.
April 15-Nobile started from italy
on his airship Italia for the North pole.
April 2l-Capt George H. wilkins
and Carl b Ellison completed fight
row. Alaska. to Spitzbergen and re-
ported 'eeing no land
May 6-Nobile in dirigible Italia
reached Spitzbergen.
May. l5-Nobile in dirigible Italia
started on flight over polar regions
May lS-Dirigible Italia returned to
became head of technical committee Of
Ira nScontinental Air Transport
May 23-Nobile in the Italia passed
over the North ole.
bdy GO-DlilS Ildlld wrecked on
ice foe
May 3O-EIeven of IA balloons In ma
'ional elimination race from Pitts
burgh were driven down by furious
storm: two men killed.
Nav 3l-Monoplane Southern Cross
with crew of four started from Oak
land Calf. for sydney Australia via
Hawaii. Fill and Brisbane
June l-Southern Cross landed al
Wheeler field Hawaii
June 3-Southern Cross left Hawaii
for Fiji.
June 5-Southern Cross reached
June 9-Southern Cross arrived safe
iy at Brisbane, Australia.
Colonel Lindbergh given first master
OF aeronautics degree by New York
university.
June 1O-southern Cross landed at
Sydney. Australia
June 12-Captain Carranza completed
nonstop flight from Mexico City to
Washington.
June l7-Amelia Earhart and COM
panions. in airplane Friendship. hoped
OF from Trepassey, N. f.
June lS-Captain Amundsen and tive
companions lost in attempt to reach
Mobile party in plane.
AIrpiane Friendship landed in BURY
inlet. Wales
June l9-Major Maddalena reached
Mobile AMI five companions by airplane.
June 24-Swedish airman rescued
Mobile.
July 3-Ferrarin and Del Prete,
Italians. hoped off at Rome for Brazil.
July 5-Italian flyers landed near
Port Natal. Brazil having made new
distance record of 4.449 miles.
July ll--Russian aviator discovered
Doctor Malmgren and two companions.
members of Mobile party who had wan
deIed over ice AZ days. but he could
not land
July I2-Russian icebreaker Krassin
rescued Malmgren's companions but
found Malmgren had been dead
month: it then rescued the five men
left near Foyn island by Mobile
July l3-AviatorS rescued Sora and
Won Dongen, who were lost while
hunting for the Italia survivors.
Capt Emilio Carranza, Mexican good
will flyer. killed by lightning in New
Jersey.
July 15-Icebreaker Krassin picked
up russian Aviator Chukhnovsky and
S While unPns the Noble WhG h party crashed
July 31-Nobile and survivors of his
party reached Rome.
Aug. Capt c. T. Courtney and
Azores. to Newfoundland. were forced
down in midocean and picked up by
steamer.
Idzikukowski and Kubala, Polish
aviators. started flight from Paris to
New York.
Aug 4-Polish flyers fell in ocean
and were picked up by steamer
Aug I6-Hassei and Cramer few
on way to Stockholm
Aug. 1S-Rockford flyers left Coch-
rane for 1ount Evans. Greenland. and
disappeared
Aug. 2O-Art GobeI few from Los
Angeles to New York in Is hours So
minutes. without, stop,
Sept. 2-Hassell and Cramer found
safe in Greenland: plane disabled.
Maurice Bokanowski French minis
ter of air and commerce. and four aids
killed in airplane accident:
Sept. 5-Thirty-seven airplanes start
ed from New York in transcontineutal
air derby.
Sept. I0-Earl Rowland. Kansas. won
In Glass A of aerial derby.
Sept. 1S-Spanish inventor flew
across English channel in new gyro-
plane.
Oct. 1.-THE Graf Zeppelin. grea,
German dirigible. started from Fried
richschafen. Germany. for the United
States.
Oct. l5-The Graf Zeppelin landed
safely at Lakehurst. n. j.
Oct 17-Commander H. c. Mcdonald
English aviator. started solo flight
from Newfoundland to England in
small plane and was lost,
from New York to Los Angeles in "a
hours 81 minutes.
Oct. 29-Graf Zeppelin began its trip
back to Germany.
Nov. 1-Graf Zeppelin arrived at
Friedrichschafen. Germany.
Nov 4-Tucker and Collyer. cross
continent record holders. killed in Ari-
iona in crash IF plane.
Dec l2-International civil aviation
conference opened in Washington.
Dec. 17-Delegates to aviation con-
ference celebrated at Kitty Hawk N
c.. the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
first flight by the Wright brothers.