The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-25

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 last night and arose at 5:30 a. m. They had breakfast in their room at the Airport hotel, consisting only of tea and rolls, and hurried out on to the field at a. m. They inspected the plane and watched while fuel was put into extra tanks. They ate another break fast while waiting, having worked up an appetite, consuming a quan- tity of ham and eggs and coffee. The plane was rolled out of the was started 10 minutes later, and after a moment warmed up to the even steady drone which carried them across the Atlantic yesterday to their first unscheduled stop at Chester, Eng.
 The day began cool and cloudy. Meteorological experts at the field said that above the clouds the flyers could expect to find favorable winds.
 Post and Gatty. making one of the most remarkable air journeys yet attempted, had long overland flight ahead of them past Moscow and thence over eastern Europe and Asia to the Pacific via Siberia.
 They flew the Atlantic yesterday, landing twice on their way to Ber- lin, once at Chester, Eng, and again at Hanover, Germany. They made one false start from Hanover, re- turned to inquire the shortest route to the capital, and proceeded, reaching Berlin at $40 p. m. (2:3O p. m. EST) last night.
 They climbed out of the Winnie Mae and eagerly accepted cham pagne from cheering crowd gath cred at Templhof airport to greet them. Post said their flying time from Harbor Grace to Germany was 22 hours and 13 minutes-itself a record.
 The distance was about 2,S50 miles from Harbor Grace to Berlin, making a total mileage of 4,O0O miles out from New York, their starting point on the race for a world-girdling record.
 The men were exhausted when they arrived at Tempelhof, and could hardly stand when they got out of the plane. The roar of the motor had deafened them. They were so tired they could only num- ble replies to congratulations of air port officials and American repre- sentatives, including United States Consul General George s. Messer- smith.
 Post and Gatty spoke few words into the microphone which was pushed in front of them, but they were too weary to make more than mechanical responses to welcoming ceremonies. Neither had slept since they left New York at dawn Tues day. They told of their experiences, however, to the United Press cor respondent.
 "We flew low most of the way across the Atlantic" Post said. Sometimes we seemed to be only 50 feet above the waves. Our high est altitude was 12,000 feet, when we flew through a storm. The storm was terrific for time and We could not see an inch ahead of us."
 Post said they ran into rain and some bad places" over the Atlantic.
 At first" he said, i've had fine weather over the ocean but after about three hours it began to rain. The rain continued all night and we struck some bad places. l believe, however, that the worst part of our long trip is over. I am confident we will break the Graf Zeppelin's rec ord of 21 days for the world flight, and I hope we cut 1t in half"
 Post said they used their radio transmitter very little because there twas no occasion to send messages" He added that their return to Han- hover was to get more fuel as well as to ask more questions about the route.
 Both flyers insisted that they were in fine physical condition and need ed only the nights sleep to con- tinue.
 The route east from Moscow will take them along the trans-Siberian probably to Habaravsk, on the Pacific, whence they plan to fly along the coast to the Bering Strait, thence to Alaska and south eastward and across North America to New York.
 Notes of Other Flyers
 St John, N. B., June 25-UP)- Miss Ruth Nichols, New York flyer, hurt in a crash here, had an un- night with considerable pain, but her condition was dey scribed as mot alarming" to-day by at the General hospital.
 She suffered painful injuries to one leg and two cracked vertebrae when she crashed Tn landinB ht tne end of the first leg of q projected trans Atlantic flight from New York.
 Hartford, Conn, June 25-UP)- Clyde E. Pangborn and Hugh Hern- don, Jr, were expected here to-day to take their Bellanca cabin mono plane to New York whence they plan to take off on a round-the- world flight attempt before the end of the week.
 The ship underwent n motor check at tho Pratt x Whitney ar. craft company. it has q gasoline of 7b0 gallons.
 Pangborn will pilot the eraft with Herndon, the financial backef' as navigator.
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