Evening star., 1934-05-28
FLYERS
LAND IN BROOKLYN
Forced Down by Motor Trou.
BILE After Crossing
Atlantic.
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led to the administration building
where another police detail was hav-
ing its hands full handling that part
of the crowd which had not gotten
onto the field.
Narrowly Miss Disaster.
While taxing their ship from the
cross runway up the field to the
hangers, the dump valve On the fuel
tanks came open again and q flood Of
gasoline poured out In wake OF the
plane and its fiery exhaust pipes.
AS soon as officials reached the ship
they signaled to Rossi and Codos to
shut of the motor. When the flyers
saw what had happened they imme-
diately closed their throttle and
stopped where they were.
Field officials said the danger Of
fire had been imminent.
Although their faces were wreathed
in smiles as police escorted them
through the crowds. both flyers ap-
peared nearly exhausted from their
flight.
They asked for cigarettes and ac-
knowledged the cheers Of the crowds
| as they passed on to the Administra-
ton Building. Some Of the crowd tried
to push through and shake hands as
they passed. .-t..
Kicked along by obliging tail
| winds and favored by excellent
weather, the monoplane. which lifted
its great weight Of gasoline from lie
Bourget Field at l1:l0 O'Clock EAST
ern standard time) Saturday night,
radioed cheering "alls we'll" and
shot along into the west.
Survive Graveyard"
The only moments of anxiety came
during the dead hours of night when
the plane plowed into the flyers
graveyard" the fog-bound New
foundland banks. For q time the
Frenchmen appeared to be having
difficulty getting their bearings. At
$50 am eastern standard time),
however, their wireless was heard
working with French station and a
clear skyway backoned them down the
| Nova Scotia coast.
Their route across America was not
announced. Their most direct route
by way of New York to San Diego
| would take them north of Dayton,
Louis and thence southwest over the
Texas Panhandle, New Mexico and
| Arizona.
While San Diego is their destination,
there is q possibility that the flyers
may chose to set their plane down at
San Francisco.
Their plane is the same one in which
they few from New York to Kayak,
Syria, to establish the present nom
stop distance record of $3.50 miles.
The ship weighed more than tons
when it climbed laboriously from the
French flying field and started one OF
the most daring adventures Of the air.
Seven hundred miles out from
Southampton the plane few over the
steamship Europa. Steamships kept
in touch with the flyers by radio, Civ
ing them bearinsg.
Except for the fog and low clouds
| of Newfoundland, weather conditions
were favorable, Dr. James H. Kimball,
| New York meteorologiSt. said after re-
ceiving new reports early today.
Rossi and Codos, in heading west
| across the Atlantic, dared an air trail
marked by failure and death. OF
many attempted westward flight
across the Atlantic, the Frenchmen.
| one reaching the United States. be-
came the second team OF flyers to
complete an air crossing from con-
tinental Europe, although several
lights have been made from the Brit
| ish Isles.
Four years ago Dieudonne Coste and
| Maurice Bellonte lodged storms and
reached the United States in . non.
stop hop from Paris.
Other attempted westward crossings
have been ill-fated. Several flyers
have died in the attempt; others have
fallen short Of their goal
A north and northeast wind Of
velocity between II and 20 miles an
hour was sweeping across the Eastern
section of the country. This would
prove a slight aid to Codes and Rossi.
| Storms Dot Rockies.
Thunderstorms dot the Rockies and
| 3 S0utn ana southwest WlnQ petWeen
80 and 40 miles an hour is blowing.
It will provide an irritating headwind
and q danger to fuel supply If it pre-
walls when the plane reaches that
area.
The shortest route for the French
men after they reach New Pork meas
ures about 2,475 miles to San Diego.
There are always headwinds prevail
ing on east-to-west flights over this
route.
At San Diego the man who built
the famous Spirit of st. Louis for
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh completed
arrangements today to welcome the
French flyers. - .
The plane builder, T. Claude Ryan,
said arrangements were made to care
for the Frenchmen should they land