The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-24

it came down in A bog adjoin-
ing the Bridgeport airport
Sunday night.
Instead. they viii be carried TO
New York in a Sikorsky amphibian,
piloted by Ralph Wexford
The exhausted fllerS were put to
bed at Bridgeport hospital Sunday
night after they had been treated
for slight cuts and bruises.
so Miles Short of Goal
They we're forced down eighty
miles short OF their goal when their
fuel was exhausted.
Their huge, twin motored BIZ
plane appeared over the Bridge
port airport at 10 Sunday night,
thirty-nine hours after they took
off from Pendine Sands. to carry
Britain's most famous fiiers on their
greatest adventure
Sunday. the plane had raced down
the North Atlantic coast. after sue
cessfully negotiating the treacher-
Gus east-west Atlantic crossing.
AT Floyd Bennett field, New
York, 10000 people waited.
The plane circled the Bridgeport
field. Tiny Tasker. field manager.
thought the pilot was about to land
with the wind. procedure disas-
trcus on a field so small. Fred
Moeller, Northeastern Air Service
pilot, hastily went aloft. then landed
against the wind. The example had
no effect.
Mollison Badly Cut
Mollison, who was plotting the
Seafarer, brought it down with the
wind. His ground speed was sixty-
five miles an hour and il carried
him over the field boundary into
the swamp
Airport attendants, racing across
the field toward the wreckage. heard
Amy's voice
Hello, there! Hello therel"
They found her sitting on the
ground beside the wreckage. Mol
lison was stretched out on his back
unconscious and his wife held his
head on her lap.
AT the Bridgeport hospital. thirty
stitches were taken in Mollison's
forehead to close long cash. Amy's
left hand was cut. Both slightly
were bruised.
They were both highly nervous
and exhausted. They spoke of their
flight in monosyllables. and went
to bed without giving an interview
with the scores Of newspa permen
assembled at the hospital.
Husbands Nerves Shattered
They told DR.. I. l.. Harshbarper.
stan surgeon, that they encountered
headWinds and forgot most of the
Atlantic crossing and it was much
worse" than they anticipated
Molison was in such a state OF
nerves that hospital attendants gave
him drink of whisky. He gulped
It down and made a wry face.
That's awful stuff" he exclaimed.
but 1t won't stop me from having
another"
Amy. after her finger had been
bandaged, asked for a cigarette.
Thereafter. until nurses led her and
her husband of 10 a private suite.
she busted herself in ducking photo
graphers.
Harshbarger said Mollison told
him that Amy flew the plane for a
good part Of the fight, but that he
was at the controls when the land
ing was made.
The surgeon said Mollison's larger
cuts we're across the forehead and
the bridge OF his nose.
Harshbarger said the Mollisons
told him they made slow time
across the Atlantic. ran into fog
over the Nova Scotian and Maine
coasts, and battled headwinds all
the way down the New England
coast.
Mollison gave the doctor his ex-
PLANTATION Of the crash as the lat
ter stitched the gashes in his fore
head.
The only good reason for our
cracking up was that l was Jolly
we'll worn out. he said.
Mrs. Mollison. however, said 10
was because he couldn't see"