New Britain herald., 1930-09-04
Leaves for West

Leaves for West
 Valley Stream, N. r, Sept. R- Preceded by their business manager, Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bel lonte took off at 6:55 (est) this morning for Dallas, Tex, in an eff fort to collect s25,ooo prize off, fered by William Easterwood.
 The big red Sesquiplane go" which made the first nonstop vest ward crossing of the north Atlantic from Paris to New York circled once. over the field, and then shot like a scarlet comet against the morning sky toward it's southern destination. .-,...,- .,- E. ... lantic plane took the air, another ship hopped off with Rene Racover, Coste's American representative, who planned to attend to the trans atlantic f1iers' business affairs in connection with collecting the East erwood prize which was offered for he first flight from Paris to Dallas with New York as the only inter mediary stop. Starting Delayed
 The take off of the French, tliers for the Texas city was delayed an hour by the necessity of construct ing a special device for spinning the propeller which is set so high that it is very difficult for mechanics standing on the ground to start the engine. The device failed but the motor was at last started by volun- teers who risked their lives by leap ing into the air to hang on the high propeller blades.
 Capt. Dieudonne Coste expected to make the journey to Dallas in from 12 to IS hours. He had 42o gallons of gasoline pumped into the ship before he left. The radio which was in operation for all but the last few miles of the transatlan- tic journey still was broken when today's flight began, but no difficult ty was expected, as perfect flying weather prevailed.
 
 about a. m. having had less than hours sleep. When they were awakened after their brief rest in New York hotel Coste immediately jumped from bed ready for the new adventure, but Bellonte was less quick to face the day with so little slumber.
 ct la 61-o ,,}n more sleep" he begged when he was shaken into consciousness but Coste, a strict disciplinarian,> >> had him out of bed long before that per- iod elapsed.
 Once at the field fueling was i'm mediately begun under Coste's su- pervision and Bellonte immediately went to work upon maps of the route they are to cover,
 Coste Urges Haste
 When the refueling was complet- cd and the plane first wheeled from the hangar newspaper photogra- phers and sound reel men surround ed the ship and began taking in- numerable pictures of plane and crew. Coste, irked at the delay, kept shouting "Vite, vite," and final ly succeeded Tn getting his ship to the flying line,
 Then came the delay occasioned by the difficulty in starting the mo- tor and when at last the engine burst into action and was sufficiently warmed to avoid all possible danger on the take off. the fliers lost not a moment in climbing into their fam ous ship and following their manager Into the air.
 Coste announced before leaving that the course as plotted by Bel lonte would lie over Easton, Allen town and Pittsburgh. Pa. Steuben- vile, Ohio; Cincinnati; Louisville Little Rock and Greenville, Texas.
 Racover planned to stop at Louis- vile for fuel and proba bly, wait there for Coste to catch up to him, for the 'ed cabin monoplane in which the manager was flying is far faster than he Sesquiplane. |
 To Meet Over Texas
 ATT dIlk clllcuL dlcO "dS lildQC Iul d rendezvous Of the two planes in air above Greenville. Texas, which is about 40 miles from Dallas. The take-off today was witnessed by not more than POO persons in striking contrast to the thousands who broke through police lines and almost | caused a riot of jubilation when the 1 Frenchmen arrived here the day be- fore yesterday. The red Sesquiplane, veteran of al- most countless adventures in the air, i made romantic picture. as 1t was lowed. from it's dim hangar into the early morning sunlight. On it's scar let Hanks were inscribed the names of far cities to which it has travelled | under the guidance of the former war ace who was at it's controls to- day.
 Among these cities were such names as Tsitsikar, Karbine, Calcut- ta, karachi. Athens, Rome, Hanoi. Shanghai and Alep.
 For it is in this plane that Coste flew around the world except for the Pacific. made world records for both straight line and closed course dis tance flights and in several weight carrying events. 4s
 In contrast to the many sweaters and fur-lined flying suits in which the aviators arrived two days ago at