Evening star., 1936-09-03
Fuel Supply Exhausted by
Fog and Rain, Pair Lands
Safely IFS Miles Short of
Croydon.
MID0CEAN NOSE DIVE
ONLY SCARE ON TRIP
Men to Go to London-Cus-
toms Officials, After Scratching
Heads, Decide 10000 Table
Tennis Balls in Wings Are Not
Dutiable as Sporting Goods.

Copyright, 1886. by the Associated Press.D
LLWYNCELYN, Carmarthenshire,
South Wales September 3.-Harry
Richman and Dick Merrill, American
airmen out for round-trip Atlantic
spanning speed test, landed in South
Wales field today, out of gasoline bu:
safe.
The spot is in desolate part of Car
marthenshire. This village joins the
larger town of Llandilo. 1t is almost
directly on the flyers plotted course.
Flying at about 1000 feet all the
Way, the night club owner and actor
from New York and his veteran pilot
sped across the Atlantic from New
York in less than 16 hours to outShine
the speed feats of an imposing list of
ocean pilots, except perhaps one pair.
Unhurt and without damaging their
powerful, low-wing monoplane, the
Lady Peace, the Americans came down
at around AIS pm. 00:l5 am, East
ern standard time. Hard rains on the
last lap of their journey had depleted
their fuel sooner than expected.
Two Records Close.
Richman estimated the flyers were
IN the air "about 1872 to 16 hours, "
but did not know the exact landing
time. However. D. R. Thomas, a
baker at Llandilo, said he saw the
plane flying over his place at 3:15
pm. (9:15 am, Eastern standard
tine) and that it landed shortly
thereafter. This would make the fly
ing time since Richman and Merrill
left New York not quite 18 hours.
[Records of transatlantic flights
showed today that Richman and Mer-
rill will have to compete with Bennett
Griffin and James Mattern for ocean
speed honors. Four years ago Griffin
Snd Mattern flew from Harbor Grace,
Newfoundland, to Berlin in 18 hours
40 minutes, making the ocean leg hop
from Harbor Grace to Ireland in 10
hours so minutes.
[Logs Of the Merrill -Richman hop
fail to show that they Checked in"
as they left land at Newfoundland,
b6V VIC O. lCpOlG tlldI tllCy WSIG
over the sea came at 9:01 pm EAST
ern standard time) last night. They
were reported over Ireland at 7:17
eastern standard time), making the
elapsed time between the two reports
10 hours 16 minutes.]
Thousand Wait at Croydon.
A thousand worried spectators had
waited under heavy skies at Croydon
for some sign of the plane, which ran
into hard rains at the eastern end of
its journey. They included the Amer
lean motion picture producer, Joseph
Schenck, and Capt. Jimmy Haizlip,
st. Louis speed flyer.
Finally a telephone in the airport
communications Office tangled.
1t was Richman, calling from Llwyn-
celyn.
When reporters reached him at
Llwyncelyn, miles from the field,
his first cry was: Il want some gas
to get our bus off again; we want to
keep our date with the lads at Croy-
don"
Plane Lost in Storms.
He went on:
I'VE are absolutely o. K The
machine is in marvellous shape; moth
ing is wrong with her. We made
perfect landing. But you see, we got
lost; yes, We got lost.
Our radio went on the bum. We
hit a couple of storms and in one of
them the lightning put the radio out.
That was early this morning, so we
were without radio all these hours.
1T was very good flight. We
hew practically all the way at II 900
feet. We saw 9 or 10 boats, but
only got a glimpse of them when the
clouds parted little.
I have kept a pretty good log of
the trip, although I can't remember
exactly what have written in IT..
Half way across the plane went
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