The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-10-05
ANCBORN-HERND0N
COMPLETE AIR TRIP
OVER PERIL0US SEA
Record Breaking Plane Tips
Over on Nose, Then Settles
Back on Landing
PROPELLER IS SMASHED
Fish.TaiI Descent Made Neces.
sary by Loss Of Gear A.
ter Take.Off


Wenatchee, WASH, Oct. s.
(AP)--Clyde Pangborn and
Hugh Herndon, Jr., American
filters, landed here today, the
first to fly an airplane across
the Pacific from Japan to the
United States without a stop.
Leaving Japan after a long
delay to obtain permission to
make the dangerous hop, Pang-
born and Herndon spanned the
northern stretches Of the ocean
in al hours, Is minutes, cover
ing about 4,465 miles.
Minus landing gear, which
they dropped shortly after
leaving Samushiro Beach. JAP
an, early Sunday morning, the
filters appeared over Wenatchee
at z a. m. Go a. m. E.. S. T.)
circled a few minutes while
dumping gasoline to prevent a
possible outbreak of fire, and
landed the plane on it's IRON
stripped belly.
w had good weather for the first
1000 miles, then climbed 1900 feet
trying to get v the clouds, hitting
real heavy clouds at Duck Harbor at
daybreak yesterday" said Herndon.
Ice began to form on the wings as
we climbed up and down but we
couldn't get out Of 1t. The plane was
loggy but we flew on through It. We
flew three hours after we thought we
should have been overland on the
Alaskan west coast.
Held Straight Course
I'VE got worried because we didn't
see land and thought something had
gone wrong ana that we were OF our
COURSE" 'Herndon continued. "As It
turned out, however, WI were on a
straight ourse all the way"
The plane touched the landing field
at TIA a. m, tipped over on her nose
and then slid along in q cloud Of
dust. 1t came to rest on its LETT
wing. The propeller had been
smashed In the landing. That was
the only casualty. Aviators described
the landing as wonderful"
Mrs. Opal Pangborn, Of Wenatchee,
mother Of Clyde, wiped the tears
from her eyes and greeted her son
with:
MY, you don't ever look tired"
I Dump Excess Gasoline
Before coming down the fliere CIR
cled q few minutes and dumped ex-
. cess gasoline in order to prevent any
, possible outbreak Of fire when they
. hit the ground minus their landing
. !. gear. which had been dropped short
ly after their takeoff at Samushiro
Beach, Japan.
Successful in spanning the long
, stretch Of fog-haunted ocean which
: had baked the efforts Of many other
aviators, Pangborn and Herndon
came In line to receive the So. 900
5 prize offered by the Tokyo newspaper
ASahi for the first nonstop airplane
flight between Japan and the United
States.
S From Samushiro Beach to We
natchee over the course plotted by
4 the filters before they started, the dis
lance is approximately 4,565 miles,
which falls considerably short of the
distance record set last July by Rus
sell Boardman and John Polando In
flying from New York to Istanbul.
, Turkey, SOIL miles.
Pangborn and Herndon spanned
the Pacific In about Al hours.
Herndon had q cut over his left eye
while Pangborn said the only damage
to the plane was to the propeller.
: Was Wonderful Landing
Aviators said 1t was q wonderful
landing" considering lack Of landing
gear. Herndon's first words were,
"Give me q cigarette"
A representative of the japanese
: newspaper Asahi was standing by
q with a 5000 check for completion
S of the first transpacific flight from
Japan. He had been in Washington
state three months. waiting to pre-
: sent the check to some nonstop bird
, man.
e very glad to see you boys" he
said.
Pangborn said they went nearly to
Spokane but turned around and
n came back. They were over Seattle
but there was plenty" fog there.
We've been In Japan 50 long we're
y still going barefooted," Pangborn
K said. Both wore wool sox but no
shoes.
)" They had 100 gallons Of gasoline
y left. They explained 1t was too
: foggy for them to go to Salt Lake
l. City.
"The reason we came back was be-
cause we like the apple capital
Pangborn said. Wenatchee Is a cen
n ter Of the apple industry In Wash
ington.
Passed Over Vancouver
Their route brought them over
Vancouver Island, they said. They
circled Mount Rainier three times anc
passed over Seattle shortly after /:
, a. m.
The filters left Samushiro At SO
ID p. m. E. S. T., Saturday. and landet
l. Monday at 1914 q. m, E. s. 7.
n They were believed to have passet
e. over False Pass, on Unimak 1slans
It. Of the Aleutian chain. Sunday ap
ID proximately q hours after thet
e takeoff.
Sc "Transpacitic plane heard Falls
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