The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-23
Third Craft Carries George
Hutchinson, Flying Fam
lily and Crew of -Four
OTHERS READY TO LEAVE
Trio Ready to Attempt Flight
to Rome; MoIlison Awaits
Good Weather


ward Europe from America Tuesda,
two of them on an impromptu race
to Oslo. Norway-and two more stood
ready to 90 Wednesday If weathe,
conditions are favorable.
Thor Solberg and Carl Petersen
took off before dawn from Floyd
Bennett field in New York for Oslo
with one stop planned at Harbor
Grace. N. F. Three and half hours
later they reported by radio that they
were over Portsmouth, N. H. Slightly
more than half hour after that
Clyde A. Lee and John Bochkon
scared aloft from a field at Barre.
VT. with the same goals-Harbor
Grace and Oslo.
At the takeoff of the latter, the
two planes were not more than 100
miles apart.
Later in the morning George
Hutchinson and his flying family
himself, his wife and two daughters
with crew of four more left Floyd
Bennett field for st. John, N. B., the
first stop scheduled on a 4,200-mile,
easy-stage flight to London.
William Ulbrich, DR.. Leon Pisculu
and Edna Newcomer planned to leave
wednesday on a nonstop flight to
Rome by way of Florence-where
Miss Newcomer is expected to lean
out In a parachute to honor Flor
ence Nightingale, the nurse.
Mollison Is Ready
j. A. Mollison, Scotch flier who
completed the first solo flight from
Europe to New York last Sunday.
waited only favorable weather ct
Roosevelt field to start q return solo
flight. His moth plane. termed q fly
ing gas tank, had been given q quick
overhaul.
If Mollison and Ulbrich start to-
morrow there will be five planes 60
ing eastward over the Atlantic 1t The
same time-the highest number Gince
mechanical flying began.
The Solberg-Peterson FLIGHT q In
tended to cement friendly relations
between the United States and Nor.
way. 1t is backed by patriotic Nor
wegian-Americans who conceived tho
idea at an Independence Day cele-
bration in Brooklyn, where solberg
lives.
Solberg, a native Norwegian whoss
bride of a year. Ingrid, Is waiting to
greet him in Norway, was plotting.
Petersen, also a native Norwegian and
radio man for the Byrd expedition to
Antarctica, planned to keep In touch
with radio stations on both sides Of
the Atlantic. He is IS and Solberg is
So.
To Take on Gasoline
The airmen took off with $50 GAL
Ions OF gasoline, expecting to increase
the supply to 1000 gallons at Harbor
Grace. Both of them are hearty eat
ers, so they took q huge packet Of
sandwiches, a gallon Of coffee and =
gallon Of tea.
Their craft has cruising speed Of
80 miles an hour and a top speed Of
100. They expected to reach their
goal, a distance of about $500 miles,
IN about IS hours flying time.
Lee and Bochkon expected to make
the 977-mile hop in approximately
nine hours. They planned to fly to
Harbor Grace via Augusta. Maine, St.
John, N. B.. East Point, P. e. l., and
Cape Ray, N. F.
At Harbor Grace, N. F.. they
planned to put aboard $50 gallons Of
gasoline, enough for about 1000 miles
or IS hours flying time. They figured
the distance from the Newfoundland
airport to KELLER Field, Oslo, their
ultimate objective, however, as only
$3.50 miles and expected to cover It
in 80 hours.
First Time Over Ocean
Lee, "a, has done no ocean flying,
but has had about nine years exper.
fence in the air. He was once asso-
ciated with the late Charles Speed"
Holman Of st. Paul in transforming
exploits and has engaged in CONNER
cial flying in the west and in Mexico.
He lives at Oshkosh, Wis.
Bochkon, four years his senior. be.
gan his flying career with Norwegian
air forces in 1920. He came to this
country seven years ago and has con-
tinued his aviation activities Is . pi-
lot ana an engineer. His home q at
Brooklyn, N. Y. Neither Is married,
In the Hutchinson plane were
Hutchinson, his wife and two daugh-
tiers, Kathryn. 8, and Janet Lee. 8.
Peter Radpath, navigator. Joseph
Ruff. motor engineer. q. J. Altfilisch.
radio operator, and Norman w. Al
ley, cinema cameraman.
The first stop scheduled was St.
John, N. B., 5l1 miles from New York
Unless weather conditions are bad the
expedition plans to reach Labrador
on the second day. Greenland On the
third day, Iceland on the fourth day
and London on the fifth day. Tha
distance for the entire flight y esd
mated to be 400 miles.
The purpose Of the flight = 70 DEM
onstrate the safety Of trans-AtlAntio
flying over the air-mAil route Whkch
has been charted BY the goyernms1ik
LEVY BOOST REJECTED v
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