Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-18
WILEY POST LANDS
AHEAD Of SCHEDULE.
Robot Pilot Fails on Long Hop
{ Across Siberia-FIyer
Lost Twice.
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for the pair stayed here nine hours and
13 minutes on their world flight two
years ago
At this point he had completed about
half of his world journey. Irkutsk is
about $50 miles farther on The esti-
mated distance from Irkutsk to Khab-
arovsk is 1900 miles. Thus Post will
lose several hundred miles. for Irkutsk
is south of the direct line between here
and Khabarovsk.
Ivan Roncharoff, chief of the Novosi-
~birsk Airport was talking to the ASso-
ciated Press correspondent in Moscow
when Post arrived, at the time when
some concern was felt for his safety
Almost simultaneously the chief heard
that Post had passed over Tartarsk, $50
miles west of here. That was the first
report of him since he left Moscow
Posts average speed across to the
Atlantic to Berlin was about $50 miles
an hour From Moscow here his hour
speed was about 1873 miles.
At this rate, he declared confidently,
I'll be back in New York in less than
three full days"
When he arrived in Moscow from
KoerigSberg he was hours, "a minutes
ahead of the previous mark set in the
worn from the pace he set for himself,
he in~isted on taking off after 2 hours
and So minutes
Still Has Ample Time.
Driving him on was his self-imposed
schedule, because of which he said he
was not proud of his time from Ger
many to Moscow.
Il hoped to be at Irkutsk by this
time" he said. But I still have got a
chance to beat our record, and I am
out to do it."
Soviet mechanics were interested in
them saw for the first time. They
asked about it.
That is a mechanical mike" he re-
piled through an interpreter. When
they asked what a mike" was, he ex-
planned
The robot. he said. had been dis
appointment and had caused such diff
f1cultleS that he had had to steer the
plane manually all the way He was
weak with fatigue when he arrived in
Moscow. but he refused to sleep pre-
ferrlng to visit a barber and supervise
the repairing OF leak in the gasoline
feed
The Oklahoman took on 178 gallons
OF gasoline here and II gallons of oil,
but he refused to listen to entreaties
that he snatch little sleep. He rested
for short while however, on a couch
In the airport building
Miss Fay ellis, an American aviatrix,
who has served as his representative
greeted Post on his arrival, along with
Roncharof and a doctor
Peasants Little Help.
She fed him as he lay On the couch
fruit and bouillon. They talked about
American aviation and people they
knew in New York.
Miss ellis gave this account after
talking with Post:
Wiley landed twice before arriving
here, because he lost the way, and al
most missed Novosibirsk because he was
still f1oundering about in cloudy and
rainy weather when he got here
Only lucky guess on his part,
which helped him come down at the
local airport saved him, for the fog
was pretty bad.
En- route here he few at an altitude
of $1,000 feet for two hours because Of
the adverse conditions, and nearly
passed out.
He lost the railway somewhere
even he does not know where-and he
decided the only thing to do was to
come down.
He landed on field beside road.
and he wasn't long there before two
peasants came by in a horse drawn
cart. He could not understand them
and they couldn't understand him, but
he finally made them understand that
he wanted to go to N0vosibirsk.
Good Judge of Distance.
"Thereupon one said NovoSibirsk was
300 kilometers westward, and the other
maintained positively that Novosibirsk
was l,40O kilometers east.
They finally agreed that Novosibirsk
was east and not west, but they did
not reconcile their difference as to dis
lance.
His second landing was near Tar
tarsk-Wiley has no idea as to the time
and he was vague about that part of
the trip, except that he found his
proper direction to Novosibirs,S
If he hadn't been a pretty good
judge of distance he would nave passed
over this place. despite the lights on
the field and other preparations we had
made for him, because the fog was
thick and close to the ground.
1T gave me thrill to see that Win
ME Mae come down here after almost a
month of waiting for him.
Wiley had promised me ride when
! get back to New York in an impro-
vised seat behind the gasoline tank, on
which was to have ridden with him to
Khabarovsk.
Believe me, intend to collect that
ride"
The cause of the Oklahoman's trouble
was difficulty in the automatic pilot