The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-23

with fatigue, Scott and Black climbed from their bullet-like Comet plane at 3:34:48 p. m. yes- terday (13:34 a. m. to-day EST), :, winner of first prize of $40,000 and a $2,00O gold cup in the speed sec- tion of the Mildenhall- Melbourne race.
 They had made weekend trip of a flight half way around the world with an elapsed time of Fl hours and IS seconds-59 minutes and AZ seconds short of three days since they left Mildenhall at at 6:34.30 a. m. Greenwich Mean time (1.34.30 EST) Saturday. They had flown almost all of the last 2,500 miles on one of their two Gypsy VI motors. They had slept but two hours each on one of the most gruelling flights ever made. They had no food on the last 2,l76 miles. They had spent but hours and 10 minutes aground and had made but five halts, all compulsory under race rules, at Baghdad, Al. lahabad, Singapore, Darwin and Charleville. They were 63 hours 5l minutes second in the air. QuarrelIcd Like Boys So exhausted were they on, the last thre stages of the flight that at times they quarrelled like school boys, they revealed here after they landed to receive the acclaim of an empire that covers one-fOurth the world.
 Under the rules they cannot be awarded the $8,000 first prize for the handicap section of the race. in which they also were entered. The winner of this will not be known for some time. probably, because handicap features aside from a time allowance inclued pay load, engine power, plane area ana such things.
 The big Dutch entry, the Amer ican Douglas Air Liner manned by K. D. Parmentier, J. J. Moll and c. Van Bruggee, with three passen- gers including Thea Rasch, Ger man girl flyer. had 8 chance for the $6,000 second prize in speed the first prize in the handicap sec tion, or the second handicap prize of $4,000. Turner and Pangborn The Americans, Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn, trailing the Dutch plane, entered only in the speed section and were eligible for second or third speed prize. the latter of $2,000.,
 Remarkable as were the flights of all three leaders, 1t was the flight of Scott and Black that cap tured the imagination.
 The broad shouldered, clean shaven, 31 year old Scott, almost commuter by plane between Aus tralia and England, and handsome, keen looking, dark mustached Tom Campbell Black, 35, who has flown between England and Africa Is times, had aviation history. At almost every halt they were near disaster. They lost their way at Allahabad. Trying to land their hgih-speed plane at Singapore they bounced it 30 feet and almost overturned. Over the Bay of Bengal they met | the steady monsoon rains and had | to fly only a few feet above the water. Then over the Timor Sea | 300 miles from Darwin up at the top of Australia, one of the motors
 went dead and they put on then !. life belts. They never expected tc | reach land, but fought on. | The bad motor never worked
 well again, and hardly. worked al all.
 All the way from the Timor Ses
 they were pickering between them
 selves.
 Charleville, 7S7 miles from Mel ! bourne, was their last stop. From 1 there on their bad motor did no'
 work.
 Flashed Over the Finish
 They followed the Warrego rivel down through Queensland ant
 New South Wales, strengthened ou for Melbourne, cheered from thu
 settlements and. then the growint | towns as they roared overhead and flashed over the Flemingtor
 race coure here, the official hnisf point.
 A strong northeast wind wal blowing storm clouds along. Th' whole city was decorated for thu centenary exhibition. At the rac'
 course and around it thousand were gathered for the finish. Lout
 speakers blared their progress Miles away the compact red super
 streamlined plane was seen ant
 a cheer went up that drowned tn' noise of the motor as the victor' raced over the home stretch of th' 4 race course between two Too ground trips a thousand yard
 apart and the world 'Flemington'
 marked in 40 foot letters on thu
 ground.
 Scores of airplanes. which hat circled out of the way. followed
 them as they went on to Lavertor
 flying field. one of the three ap
 proved landing places.
 l They stumbled out of the plan' | and into the arms of welcomers | disheveled. black with accumu
 Hated grease and dust, and aimos
 delirious.
 They checked in. were helped in to a motor car and, perched on toI
 of it's rear seat, circled the rac'
 course. smoking furiously to que
 their taut nerves and hardly abi'
 to control themselves.
 Cheers Shook Melbourne
 A cheer that echoed back tt
 Melbourne met them as the.
 mounted dais for their ofhcia welcome hy the Lord Mayor ant
 Sir MacPherson Robertson, donol | of the prizes for the race. Scot was asked to speak.
 ''It sems five centuries" he said
 ''since we started for what has re gently semed to us mythica l place called Melbourne. For ever, | mile we made we seemed to siiI
 back two. We should not have known we were in Melbourne ex' cept that someone gave me news
 paper as landed"
 Black was called. and said only
 sI never made a speech in m, life and I am too overwhelmed tt
 start now"
 Later Scott told something of hi | airhf He was hoarse from coIt