| Show I I AnA ATLANTIC FLIERS sn SET f FOR R Woman Wilmer Stultz to Pilot Big Monoplane to Europe TREPASSEY N. N F. F June 4 AP The The plane Friendship groom groomed d for a transatlantic flight landed here at 1 28 eastern da me It left Halifax where its flight from Boston was interruptedly by fog yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- at a. a m. m eastern daylight day daylight light time I HALIFAX N. N S. S J June ne 4 AP AP- AP The monoplane Friendship hopped off this morning for Trepassey N Newfoundland on the next leg of ofa a contemplated flight across the Atlantic to England A perfect takeoff from the eastern eastern east east- ern era passage airport on Halifax harbor was made at o'clock eastern daylight saving time The plane will be refueled at Trepassey Just before the from here gallons of gasoline were put aboard St St. Johns John's N. N F. F June 4 CAP CAP- AP Fine and clear weather with a a southwest wind was was was' reported from Tr Trepassey this morning There was some fo fog but this was clearing HALIFAX HALIFA N. N S. S S. S June 4 AA APA AP AP- AP A surprise transatlantic air expedition expedition expedition tion was under way today with a Boston social service worker who In appearance ance is somewhat of a n feminine counterpart of Lindbergh as copilot A secret flight was made from Boston to Halifax yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- by two men and a woman en route to Trepassey N. N F F. for the thc hop across the ocean WILMER STULTZ PILOT Wilmer Stultz who was pilot for I Continued on page 4 I ND AY y EVENING T c JUNE j TT ATLANTIC FLIERS FLIERS' SET FOR Continued from irom page 1 on Wilson Gla Grayson son Mrs Francis attempt to fly the Atlantic her first fir t The of the plane car is pilot last year Earhart is Miss 1 Amelia copilot aviatrIx and director of amateur House Boston's oldest settlement center She is of fair and bears a striking rv- rv r ru complexion to Coloney Charles A. A semblance Lindbergh whose trail blazing path the north Atlantic she hopes across Louis Gordon o of San to follow mechanic Antonio Tex is flight equipped with pontoons pon The Tho plane F Fokker Purchased Pur put purchased is a Commander Richard RichardK from chased expedition is backed K E. Byrd The Mechanical Science corporation corpora corpora- by bv the time by the time New Now York represented tion publisher and explorer George Geofge Palmer Putnam NO PUBLICITY GIVEN With BO no advance publicity time the ho the Friendship took plane named off oft from Boston harbor yesterday morning for Trepassey N. N F. F Into Halifax Stultz turned back fo fog fo off landed in the time harbor here and Present plans call for a stop at only long enough to fuel l the Trepassey plane then she will Head out across the Atlantic for or London her destination The flight is the time first attempted by a plane equipped for landing en water and mind is expected to prove the time practicability o of airplane service to Europe It is understood that the backers back back- ers era of this enterprise are Interested primarily in scientific experimentation experiments experiments- tion in in air all transportation over overwater overwater overwater Mr water said a statement from Putnam For tho first time in transoceanic transoceanic transoceanic trans trans- is oceanic flying a ship equipped with 1 pontoons making It possible to land anywhere in water It Is this type of ot equipment that Commander Byrd has favored from development development development develop develop- the time first as the inevitable ment for long distance commercial flying over water BYRD WISHES LUCK Commander Byrd also issued a stat statement nent at New York Toik in which he lie said I believe that the flight of the three plane that will fly Is with one engine dead which equipped with floats for landing I in step in tranSatlantic transatlantic transatlantic trans trans- w water is the time next atlantic flying and is a sensible pioneering effort I wish the pilot and crew good g od luck and every success success suc sue cess and have confidence in the time courage and ability of the per per- The Friendship has a wing spread of seventy-one seventy feet and is powered p v r with three horsepower Wright Whirlwind motors Its weight with crew fuel supply and pontoons is slightly In excess of pounds It is equipped with a meter GOO sending and receiving radio equipment equip equipment equip equip- ment meat and emergency radio equipment equipment equip equip- ment met for sending messages in event the plane is down with motors silent Only gallons of Jf gasoline were carried on the flight from Boston but she is to be loaded with from to 1000 gallons of ot gasoline at Trepassey In event the gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line supply runs low one of the motors can ean be cut out dut and the remaining are capable of t keeping the plane in the air The registry number of the plane is X BOSTON OSTON June 4 AP AP This This city's Lindbergh girl today was determined to be the first of 11 her r sex to emulate the famous bird- bird man aman SOCIAL SERVICE S WORKER She was Miss Amelia Earhart year old social service and airplane pilot who with Vilmer Wilmer Wil Vil mer met Stultz noted aviator and Lew Ln Gordon a mechanic took off fron from here yesterday on the first leg to tc toI Halifax N. 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S of what they icy hope I will be a transatlantic flight to England that Miss Mis An n ar artist st has remarked Earhart looks more like Lindbergh than Lindbergh himself When her hex picture was published along with news vs of ot l her r flight comments about abou the similarity were general She has short curly blond hall hair and a smile Her features are notably like the time colonels For three weeks preceding yesterdays yesterday's yesterdays yesterday's yesterdays yesterday's yes yes- yes yes- surprise takeoff Miss 1 Earhart Earhart Earhart Ear Ear- hart had stayed at a hotel under the name of Dorothy Binney the maiden name of Mrs 1 George Palmer Palmer Palmer Pal Pal- mer Putnam wife of the New York publisher who is one of the backers of the flight Miss Earhart E came to Denison House a social service center two years ago o from California She SIme had Imad prepared for college at Hyde H de Park High school Chicago and the O z school s hool In Philadelphia and A 4 1928 19 g had studied at Columbia Harvard and time the University of California FLOWN SINCE 1918 She Sho had been flying since 1918 and enjoyed the distinction of ot havIng having hav hav- ing lag been the time first woman to tt t be te granted an air all license by time the National National National Na Na- Aeronautic association NEW YORK June 4 AP AP-A AP A womans woman's secret start shirt from train Boston to today today today to- to on mm a transatlantic air all expedition day spurred two other oilier wonton women to activity for such ventures Surprised and amid hurt hurt- Miss lIss Mh s Mabel Boll BoU Queen of Diamonds who thought hought that Stultz was waH to fly her liar to Europe in Charles Levines Levine's Levines Le- Le Levines Levine's vines vine's Columbia this summer broke Into nto tears when she learned Stultz Hultz lad had flown from ft Boston Bohton to Halifax with Miss 1 Amelia Earhart Telephoning the time newspapers for foi Information Miss 1 Boll Doll said I 1 cannot understand it Wilmer was eras down hero here only a few da days s 's ago and I asked him when he was comIng coning com coni Ing ng back to fly tho time Columbia HeI He Ho said in Just a Q few tew days das and that he would ie-would would bo be here today sure I Hero Heie she started to cry her sobs being ben bein plainly audible And now no he lie has gone and taken off ort with this other woman After a moment her Imer voice steadied and she continued My car Is waiting down here now and I I. I am going goIn right out to Curtiss field and see seef if f I cannot take off ott at once Captain CaptaIn Cap Cap- tam tain Boutillier will fly with me PLANE LOCKED LOC ED UP She found foun the lie Columbia being locked up in her Imer hangar however Mechanics estimate it would take two days to get the plane into shape for tor an ocean flight Miss 1 Boll made several attempts to fly back from Europe last summer summet sum sum- met mer and after the successful flight of ot herself Levine and Stultz to Havana last winter she sue announced she had hired Stultz to fly with herto her herto I to Europe this summer Thea Rasche the German woman flier Her who is planning an ocean flIght light with Germany as her goal spent the day stunting her new sport biplane over Curtiss field Mrs James A. A Stillman wife wite of the he retired banker who recently returned re- re returned turned from Europe and announced she was starting a magazine was one of of her passengers Miss 1 Rasche's new Bellanca plane which she sue plans to use on her ocean delivered yet jet et but buthe flight had not had not been sue she he expects to have it before the end of ot tlc the week She said she si-ic hoped to take tale off on the ocean at- at before the first of July |
