The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-06
Filters Safe in Natal, Brazil,
After Being Turned Back
by Storms.
SKATER AIR RECORDS
Atlantic Machine Located;
Returns to City After
Night of Anxiety.
BY u. G. KEENER
United Press STAFF Correspondent


RIO DE JANEIRO, July 6.-Mai.
Arturo Ferrarin and Mai. Carlo Del
Prete of the royal Italian air force
arrived at Natal at 1920 a. m. to-
day after their record breaking
flight from Monticello airdrome.
Rome, to the beach at Touros, forty
i've miles north of Natal
The silver gray plane, GA, in which
the aviators-already holders of the
endurance flight record-made their
Hight of 1921 miles from Rome. was
located today after its landing
Thursday night when rain and hail
storms and binding fog made con-
tinuance of their flight impossible.
The plane had landed first at the
municipal bathing beach near Ma
tai, but reascended and turned
southwark to continue it's FIGHT
originally intended to end at Bue-
nos Aires, 1000 miles from Monte
cello airdrome, from which it start
ed Tuesday.
Crowds watched the plane head
into the storm, and a few minutes
later saw it flying back over the
city to disappear northward.
Night Of Anxiety
A night Of anxiety regarding its
safety was ended today when Pilot
Andre De Pecker of the French
Latecoere Paris-Buenos Aires mail
service searched the coast and,
after an hours fight, located the
plane at Touros.
Later the two planes we're seen
flying over Natal on the return
journey.
News Of the Italian planes land
ing was received with great en-
thusiasm throughout the country.
Thousands of people, in towns and
in Isolated provinces, had watched
for it.
In Air Fifty One Hours
The flyers had been In the air for
81 hours "a minutes when they first
landed on the Natal Municipal
Beach near the River Ceara and
the Miro Falls.
They had broken the long distance
fight record made by Clarence
Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine
who few 5000 miles to Germany
from New York last year.
The flight of these two former
Italian war flyers, already holders of
the endurance flight record and two
of Italy's most famous airmen. was
as spectacular as 1t was carefully
planned.
The gray Savoia- Marchetti Mono
plane, capable Of $50 miles an hour
and capable Of 600 horsepower, had
been prepared secretly for the great
test.
AS a preliminary test the two air
men took the machine aloft and
broke the endurance fight record of
Captain George Haldemand and Ed
die Stinson.
Carried Five-Ton Load
Tuesday evening the craft was
loaded with its So tons OF
fuel, with sandwiches, wines, coffee
and fruit and the filters appeared
for start,
Reports from the ocean at Rome
said that flying conditions were not
the best.
Ferrarin met this report with a
shrug Of his shoulders. All sorts
Of weather would be met on this
trip and he had assured the gov
eminent the start would be made
that night, therefore, he was ready
to go.
The plane made terrific speed.
Crossing Gibraltar, the African Gold
Coast, the Cape Verde Islands and
at sea it whirled through the I'M
known aircourse at a speed ranging
from 100 to 1877 miles an hour.
Constant radio communications
we're maintained with Rome, with
land stations and with ships at sea.
Each message was terse, merely tell
ing of the speed and of the planes