Evening star., 1932-07-06
TWO WORLD FLYERS
LAND IN BERLIN
Come Down at TempIehot
Airdrome 18 Hours After
Leaving Harbor Grace.
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would cross Lough Foyle. Londonderry
North Antrim, the North Irish Channel
and Scotland.
Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam ira
versed part of this route before she
landed near Culmore at the end of her
transatlantic flight.
A resident of Rosapenna, who saw the
plane come in from over the Atlantic
said it was flying fairly low and that its
colors. red. white and blue, were clearly
distinguishable.
Mattern and Griffin took off from
Harbor Grace at 4:59 pm, Eastern
standard time, yesterday. If 1t was their
plane which was sighted at Rosapenna
this morning it would mean they nego-
tiated the Atlantic crossing in IL hours
81 minutes. Post and Gatty took more
than i6 hours for the crossing.
Last night 1t was estimated 1t would
take them IS hours to reach the Eng
lish coast.
The distance from Harbor Grace to
Rosapenna is about $50 miles, which
would mean that the flyers averaged
better than $50 miles an hour for the
fight from Harbor Grace.
Behind schedule, they staked every
thing on their motor and their skill in
combating the elements. They carried
no boat, parachutes or other safety de-
vice.
Escaping disaster by a narrow margin,
they roared into Harbor Grace yeSter-
day at 2:38 pm, Eastern standard time,
after being lost in fog for about four
hours. They hastily refuelled, ate,
checked their craft and started the
ocean flight at 4:59 pm.
Their first landfall was to be Ireland
but if all went well they planned to
zoom along without stopping until they
reached Berlin. They had time to make
I'D, for they consumed 10 hours 81 min
utes in the flight from New York to
Harhor Grace, whereas Gatty and Post
did 1t in 6 hours So minutes.
Their schedule had called for them
To reach the irish coast about am.
A pea soup" fog which they could
neither climb over nor squeeze under
nearly sent them to their deaths before
they landed in Newfoundland. Near
Cape Freels they dropped a note, ask
ing startled residents to point the way
toward Harbor Grace. Even with this
assistance, however, the fog forced them
to overly their destination 100 miles
before they turned back.
Their gasoline supply was dwlndling
and II they had continued on TOWARD
the Arctic wastes they assuredly would
have been lost.
Laugh at Bad Weather.
Smiling at the reports of bad weather
over the western half of the Atlantic,
they pointed to predictions that sunny
skies would greet them when they fiew
to the eastern half
Sandwiches. chocolate, oranges ana
water were slowed away in the plane.
Mattern, former jazz drummer ana
transformer, alternated at the conIroS
with Griffin, who few an Army plane
nearly IL months in the Worlo war
without suffering scratch;
across Europe to Siberia, over ASIA 10
the Pacific and home by way Of Alaska.
of this itinerary, 3,400-mile nonstop
flight across the Siberian wastes and
Bering Strait to Nome looks 70 be tne
They hoped to break the mark OF
post and Gatty, whose record for a
round -the-world flight in days,
15 hours and 81 minutes. Post ana
Gatty's time from New YORK TO hafpor
Grace was hours and 81 minutes,
while the time of Griffin and Mattern
for the same leg was 10 hours 81 mnl-
Armed with plenty of confidence and
a make it or bust" spirit, the two
fiyers left New York at dawn yesterday
morning.
Has Had Adventurous Career.
Mattern has had an adventurous
career. He started out as drummer
in an orchestra aboard a ship on the
Pacific. He became an Army pilot IN
Honolulu and then went to BROWNSVILLE,
Tex, where he flew cargoes OF hsh 10
Mexico City. Finding this lacked ad-
venture he transformed all over the
world. A year ago he few refuellng
plane over Alaska for r. L. Robbins ana
r. S. Jones when they attempted
Seattle Toxic flight. His home is at
Fort Worth, Tex Griffin was war
time aviator and few almost II months
without a mishap. He Is native ot
Barton, Miss, but has lived in Lexing-
ton. Okla.
The airplane they are flying, is No.
Mr. -869-E and was owned by Carl Crom-
well of San Angelo, Tex, who was killed
in an automobile accident year ago.
The plane is Of $50 horsepower and has
two huge gasoline tanks and includes
several compasses and pair OF ice in
dicators among its instruments. The
flyers sit with the gasoline tanks sep
arating them and communicate by notes.
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