Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-30
Sighted Only Once.


From the time Boardman and Polando
left Floyd Bennett Field. New York, I'M
til they came down at Istanbul the only
report that they had been sighted came
from Newfoundland.
Persons on the ground there saw two
planes flying high and fast, heading Tor
the open sea- They were too far away
to distinguish the markings, but there
was no doubt that the two ships were
those which had started almost sinful
taneouslv from New York, Boardmans
for Istanbul and the other for Moscow.
Hugh Herndon. jr., and Clyde Pang-
born brought their red monoplane down
in Wales yesterday evening and today
went on to Croydon, England, whence
they left for Moscow on their flight
around the world. They hope to beat
the round-the-world record made by
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty.
These two said they had flown above
fog all the way across the Atlantic and
that they had not sighted the Istanbul
ship once. Herndon's first question
wlEn he landed in Wales was about
the Istanbul Fight.
Was First to Leave.
When they told him nothing had been
heard, he shared the general fear that
Boardman and Polando were down
somewhere.
with 1913 gallons of gasoline in their
tanks. Boardman and Polando rolled
their black and yellow Bellanca mono
plane Cape Cod. to the runway at
Flovd Bennett Field a few minutes
ahead of Herndon and Pangborn.
It was a nice takeof with that stag
gering load and with Boardman at the
controls the ship roared into the 5000
odd miles the two flyers hoped to cover
without a stop.
The flight was conceived with the OBJ
tect of establishing a new long-distance
nonstop record for heavtsr-than- air
machines, and in flying to 1stanbul,
Turkey, this object has been accom-
plished.
The previous record was 4,90l miles,
made in flight from Paris to China by
Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte
The distance from New York CITY,
which the Boardman-Polando plane left
Tuesday morning at am. eastern
standard time), to Istanbul, Is approx
mately 5000 miles.
AZ Hours and 20 Minutes.
The time of the flight was 49 hours
and 20 minutes. an average speed OF
approximately 102 miles an hour-which
was what the two airmen expected to
make.
Boardman Is from Boston. He is 80
years old and has been flying for 10
years. Polando is 81, married, and en-
ployed by the East Coast Aircraft Co. OF
Boston.
There had been no definite news of
Boardman and Polando since they left
Floyd Bennett Field, in Brooklyn, until
they came down at their destination.
They had taken along many little para
chutes which they expected to throw
over with notes attached as they passed
over populous centers. Only one of thes
was found 1t was picked up at lie
Bourget Field, Paris. about the same
time the Cape Cod landed at Istanbul
The Boardman-P olando plane was the
fourteenth to cross the North Atlantic
from West to East since the aerial pill
grimage was begun IL years ago by John
Alcock and Arthur W. Brown of Eng
land, who flew from Newfoundland to
Ireland. The thirteenth crossing was
made yesterday when Pangborn and
Herndon landed in Wales.
Five Crossings This Year.
The Cape Gods success brings the
number of successful crossings of the
North Atlantic from America to Europe
to five for this year, the greatest num-
Der for a single year since the Atlantic
was first flown. First to cross this year
were IUob anu Navy oAAOASAJ ASALO"SN
by Otto Hillig and Holger Hoiriis. Then
came Alexander Magyar and George
Endres and now Pangborn and Herndon
and Boardman and Polando.
Every attempt this year in which a
plane actually started across the North
Atlantic was successful, although Ruth
Nichols crashed on her way to the hop
off point at Newfoundland and had to
abandon her attempt temporarily. The
only fatality in ocean flights this year
has been on the South Atlantic, which
in earlier days was considered far safer
than the North Atlantic. In January
William MacLaren and Mrs. Beyrl Hart
started across and reached Bermuda,
but after starting from there for the
Azores they disappeared and were never
heard from again.
DR.. James H. Kimball Weather Blu
reau meteorologist who has given the
signal for all Atlantic planes from this
side and who personally witnessed the
take-off of Herndon and Pangborn and
Boardman and Polando, was delighted
with the news of the latest triumphs.
1T was wonderful flight" he ex-
claimed when told that the Cape Cod
had arrived in Turkey. "All four of those
boys certainly did wonderful job"
Faced Previous Failures.
Although both planes were success
full, that success was built by the de-
termination of the aviators on previous
failures Both planes had tried to get
OF beforet and failed, in each instance