Evening star., 1934-05-29
NEW YORK GREETS
SEAF[YERS TODAY.
Friends Believe Rossi and
C0doS Will Come to
Capital Tonight.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May ga shave,
breakfast, a visit to City Hall and
What comes next appeared to be
matter of uncertainty today with
Capt. Maurice Rossi and Lieut.. Paul
Codos, the Frenchmen who paid New
York a comparatively unexpected visit
yesterday from Paris.
Up early-about am. the flyers
called for BARRIERS and a light CONT
mental breakfast and then received
the French consul general, Charles de
Fontnouvelle.
The photographers were next, and
then Floyd Bennett Field, where the
airmen inspected their ship and con-
ferred with mechanics on the struc-
tural vibrations that forced them to
abandon their Paris-San Diego flight
here.
Will Call on La Guardia.
Late this afternoon they are to re-
ceive the city's welcome from Mayor
Fiorello La Guardia, who was caught
unprepared yesterday afternoon by
their arrival
There was no immediate word as to
the future flying plans of the airmen.
Friends said the flyers we're to go to
Washington tonight for ceremonies
there tomorrow, but this appeared
indefinite.
Their dream of a nonstop record
and a million franc prize shattered,
the flyers had little time for festivities
when they climbed from their huge
monoplane yesterday.
They wanted rest-and a bottle OF
champagne And off they we're hur-
ried to their hotel, where they got
both.
Vibration Halts Flight.
Vibration of the wings and rudder
of their silver monoplane-the Joseph
Lebrix-halted their ambitious under
taking, they explained. Their gaso-
line supply would have been sufficient
for the remainder of their essayed
6,100-mile flight.
Their first words after landing we're
of disappointment. Il am not at all
happy" said Rossi. 81 am very, very
sorry" said CodoS.
After some reflection, RosSi added:
'But it is better to be here alive than
a hero dead"
Later, over a bottle of champagne
in their hotel room, they agreed they
hadn't done SO badly, at that.
Their flight, in addition to being
one of the few successful east-west
crossings of the North Atlantic, estab-
lished Rossi and Codos as the first to
make the crossing in both directions.
They made the eastward flight last
August, when they set the present
nonstop distance record-approxi-
mately $500 miles from New York to
Kayak, Syria.
HOnOred by France.
New honors from their beloved
France helped temper their disap-
pointment. An official message from
the French government announced
the promotion of Rossi from lieuten-
ant to captain in the air corps and
the elevation of Codos to commander
OF the Legion of Honor.
Whether the two airmen would fly
on to San Diego, their original goal.
remained to be decided. They an
nounced definitely, however they
would stay in New York eight days
or two weeks, until mechanics arrive
from France to go over their ship.
There were reports from Paris they
might fly back across the Atlantic in
quest of new record, but the bird
men said their plans would be gov
erned by orders from the French gov
ernment.
RoSSi, coateSs and with his shirt
collar opened wide, was at the con-
trolls when the Joseph Lebrix-the
same ship in which the paid made
their record hop to Syria-was brought
to rest at Floyd Bennett Field, 38
hours and % minutes after they had
left Paris.
Struck Heavy Fog
The flyers said they experienced no
trouble until they approached fog
banks off Newfoundland
1T was slow from Newfoundland to
New York. Codos said For five
hours it was complete soup
But we knew every minute where
we we're Our plane was a living
laboratory of scientific apparatus.
In this thick weather the wings
near the rudder began to vibrate and
cause trouble There was no COM
plant about the propeller, although
it had four hicks in it.
The vibration might have been
caused by the heavy load with which
we started. But we don't know yet.
The load might have weakened the
guy wires"
The flyers estimated the distance
they travelled at 3,877 to 1850 miles
They said their maximum speed was
134.3 miles an hour.