Evening star., 1934-10-21
MOLL|SONS SPEED.
INTO INDIA IN LEAD.
Four Male Teams Clear
Baghdad in Close Pur-
suit of Couple.
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Campbell Black, fellow Britishers.
They left Baghdad only As minutes
behind the MollisonS.
X. d. Parmentier and j. J. Moll of
Holland trailed the pace-setters by
slightly more than three hours. Fourth
in order and approximately four hours
behind in time were the second Dutch
pair, G. j. Geysendorfer and D. l..
Asjes. They departed from Baghdad
at 12:45 am. (Greenwich meridian
time).
The Mollisons alone few from here
to Baghdad without stop, covering
the 2,533-mile hop at the dazzling
rare of 200 miles an hour.
They lost some precious time at
Baghcad when Amy insisted upon a
hct bath before meeting Iraq officials
and later yielded to the cheers of the
crowd for a brief speech.
The Scott-Black entry halted only
80 minutes or about an hour less
than the MolliSons stayed on the
ground. The third-place Dutch team
was down for 49 minutes, but the
fourth-placers tried desperately to
gain Will lAlC III LCACSI oIOP yCI lldNC
at the control point.
Makes Forced Landing.
Scott revealed he had made forced
landing shortly before reaching Bagh-
dad when he lost his bearings in the
darkness and came down on small
flying field near Kirkuk. Aviators of
the Royal Air Force stationed there
provided him with 20 gallons of petrol
I'VE saw no land until four hours
after crossing the North Sea-" said
Scott, because of clouds. There was
dirty weather over Turkey with low
clouds and rain"
He complained of dust on the Bagh-
dad Landing Field which soiled his
clothing and was told it had been
raised by the MolliSOnS.
Parmentier said his ship stopped at
Rome Athens and Aleppo while the
Geysendorfer ship halted only at
Athens Among his three passengers
was Thea Rasche, German sports
woman.
All of the flyers appeared surpris-
ingly fresh at Baghdad All were
served beer and sandwiches.
A typical Oriental night afforded
the flyers. exceptionally clear weather
for flying across the lonely desert be-
yond Baghdad.
Unreported Team Lands.
The flying team of Cathcart Jones
and Ken w. Waller, unreported for
several hours, landed at Baghdad at
6:12 am. &C. NJ. T0
Turner and Pangborn took off from
Athens at pm, G. M. T. last night.
They had been held back by short
winds and dense fogs.
The Mollisons expressed confidence
they would be able to reach Allahabad
today without difficulty. Weather con-
ditions were reported favorable at
Allahabad, and it was believed there
that the famous flyers could arrive in
1112 hours.
Mollison said the flight from Mind
enhan to Baghdad presented many
difficulties
I'VE were obliged TO fly at a great
height to avoid bad weather, but the
machine behaved perfectly" he said.
"Once We were alarmed about our
fuel supply, but investigation showed
We had plenty to reach Baghdad.
Word was received that Flight Lieut..
G. Shaw, British, had been forced
to earth in his moth plane at San
Feliu de Guixols, Spain.
Plotting a short range ship by him
self, Shaw apparently had lost his
way heading for Marseille. He
planned to continue to the French
seaport as soon as he could clear his
plane through Spanish customs.
In the meantime Flying Officer C.
G. Davies and Lieut. Comdr. c. M
Hill, British, we're flying from Rome
toward Athens, leaving the former
place about midnight, G. M. T. A
few minutes behind was Lieut.. M.
Hansen of Denmark. who also
pointed his plane for Athens.
First Control Point.
The city of the tabled flying carpet
is the first control point in the Mac
Robertson international air race from
London to Melbourne, the world S
greatest race, for Melbourne is 10000
miles from here, and the flyers trying
to break the record of 6 days, II
hours and 56 minutes established ex-
actly one year ago today.
OF the three American teams which
started from this airport at $50 am,
G. M. T., today. two were left in the
race. Miss Jacqueline Cochran and
Wesley Smith dropped out at Buch-
Arrest. leaving only 10 competitors.
They narrowly escaped death in land
ing because of difficulty in reducing
their planes speed.
Col. James C. Fitzmaurice and Eric
w. Bonar, the Irish team, were un-
able to start as they had intended.
A ruling by the race stewards kept
the Irish team on the ground. FitZ-
maurice took off for Croydon later
with the intention of registering as a
qualified observer in the race.
The Mollisons landed in Baghdad
at 7:10 pm. G. M. T.. and at that
time the American team of Turner
and Pangborn were reported in fourth
place. Flying their American ship,
they had left Athens close behind two
Dutch teams, placed second and third.
Dutcn Lose lime.
The first of the Dutch were Par
mentier and Moll, flying an American
plane. Parmentier and Moll lost about
an hour and quarters at Athens.
They passed over there at 2:15 pm.
only to return, land and take off
again at 1852 headed east.
Half an hour later they were fol-
lowed into Athens by ASjes and Gey-
sendorfer, their countrymen, who took
off again for Baghdad at Sis pm.
Turner and Pangborn paused at
Athens an hour and half, then took
off again at pm.
In the fifth plane to reach Athens,
which the Mollisons ignored alto
gether, were the Australians, J. Woods
and D. c. Bennett, flying an Ameri-
can plane. They arrived there at
6:10 pm.
At that time two British airplanes,
triplicates of that flown by the Mol
lisons. were unreported. They were
the ships flown by Jones and Waller
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