Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-30 | Page 43 | Phenomenal Year Experienced by Aeronautical Industry in 1928

I Phenomenal 1 Year Experienced by 9 I Aeronautical Industry in 1928 I By WILLIAM E. E BERCHTOLD Associated Press Aviation Editor WASHINGTON AP Aviation AP Aviation a added ded more than a score of ot heroes to its lengthening ever list in 1928 while the aeronautical Industry experienced cx- cx Its Us most phenomenal year on record Alth Although ugh the Wright brothers made their first airplane flight light only 23 years ago the anniversary year ear witnessed non stop light flights both Mst east and nd west across the Atlantic the first crossin crossing of oC tho the Pacific to I Australia by air and anel the tho first nonstop nonstop non non- stop flight light from Italy Itay to Brazil It also saw a hop across the top Stop of or ortho tho the world a day 23 the round-the- world speed record and new records records records rec rec- for tor the stop non-stop trip across the continent both east and we west t. t While the tho airplane was reaping new laurels airships and particularly particularly larl dirigibles i les held an lOt Important place In the tho years year's record of 1 pioneering plo pio 10 air achievements GRAF ZEPPELIN BUILT Germanys Germany's great great new commercial dirigible Graf Zeppelin built and piloted by Commander Hugo HuJo Eckener Eckener Eck- Eck ener crier completed a round trip from Germany to New York It marked another mIlestone milestone mile mile- stone stono In transoceanic airship travel I and demonstrated airworthiness although damaged b by a squall In I Th The year jear also witnessed one of the airs air's greatest tragedies In the unsuccessful Italian expedition to the North Pole under General Umberto Umberto Um- Um berto Noblie Nobile in the Italia Halla After Acter completing a h 68 hour 68 ur flight light from I Kings Bay to Lenin Land and return over the unexplored regions of the North Pole the Italia Halla was destroyed In the air on a second second sec sec- ond flight strewing its crew across the Ice covered polar wastes Searching parties were sent to aid the explorers with Captain Roald Amundsen himself a polar explorer Joining the rescuers Amundsen never returned return d. d but several several several sev sev- eral members of of the Nobile expedition Including General Nobile were rescued six weeks after the he disaster Stories of disloyalty mutiny mutiny mu mu- tin tiny and unfaithfulness came out of ot the north to cast shadow shado a over o part of ot the dirigibles dirigible's crew and anel the expedition NEW SPEED MARK MARKMan MARKMan MARKlan Man lan achieved a ne new speed mark marl when Major MaJor- Mario Iario de tIe Bernard Bernardi zoomed through the s les in an Italian seaplane at an average speed of miles an hour reachIng reachIng reachIng reach- reach Ing a maximum speed of oC 50 mlles miles an an hour Two other Italians C Cap Cap- p. p tam tain Arturo Ferrarin and Major Carlo Del Prete broke the worlds world's airplane distance record when they flew new from Rome to Brazil miles In 51 31 hours and 59 51 minutes min mm- utes The Tho United States Germany and nd I Italy I engaged In a spirited battle for tor world endurance record honors during the year ear with Germany German emerging the victor although It Is doubtful whether the mark will withstand the tho projected attempts of the next net few fow months While Shil William Brock and EJ- EJ ward iJ Detroit to Tokio fliers in 1927 1921 set a 0 new American endurance endurance endurance endur endur- ance record of or 59 hours and el eight ht minutes minute at San Dle Diego o. o Edzard Rio RIc- and Johann Zimmerman of ot Germany Germany Ger Ger- many raised rallied the world mark to 6 65 hours CROSSED ATLANTIC Amelia Earhart F achieved cd the distinction o of being the first woman to cross the Atlantic b by air when she flew with Vilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon from Newfoundland I to Wales in 20 hours and 49 min mm- utes The first stop non-stop westbound trans trans- trans Atlantic Atlantic flight ended at Greenly Island New causing Musing fear for the safety safet of two German fliers filers Baron yon von Huenefeld and Captain Hermann Koehl hoehl and anel their Irish companion Major James Fitzmaurice Their hop from Ireland Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land to the thc Newfoundland isle took too 37 31 hours against adverse winds Bert nert Hassell Hassen and Parker Cra Cra- mer met Rockford ill III fliers fUels sought to establish a pew new trans Atlantic route to Europe through Greenland and Iceland but their Rockford to Stockholm flight ended on the ice of ot Greenland where they the were rescued b by of a party part geologists from Crom the University of ot Michigan Captain George Hubert WIlkins and anel Lieutenant Carl B. B Eielson flew an American monoplane equipped with across the top of the world from Point Barrow Darrow to Green Harbor In 20 hours bours and 30 minutes Captain Wilkins has organized since a party to ex explore lore lorethe the South Polar regions In which Commander Richard E. E Byrd Bd of or trans trans- transAtlantic trans Atlantic and North Pole fame already aln-ad has established a base for br scientific exploration and a dash leros tie Ule the lost lost continent FLEW ROUND WORLD With Captain C. C B D. D as h his s pilot John Henry Mears rears of Detroit De De- I troit broke tho world the speed l record by plane and steamer In 23 3 days as Eight days das were spent In the air all and I lo 15 aboard ship Cap tain airi Coll Collyer er later hater added to hi his flyIng fly fly- l Ing honors by piloting Harr Harry Tucker rucker Tuck Tuck- I er California millionaire on an west east-west stop non transcontinental flight but Collyer Coller and Tucker met death together- together when the millionaire made a third attempt at crossing the continent without stop They crashed Into a canyon Tucker with Arthur Goebel of oC Dole race renown at the controls set a transcontinental stop non-stop record rec rc ord in Jn August by flying from Los Angeles to New v York in 18 hours and 58 minutes Tho The crossing of or the from California to to Australia with an American monoplane and two AmerIcans Americans Americans Amer Amer- In the crew of or four constituted constituted constituted the years year's greatest overwater o flight and revealed the possibilities of or scientific navigation atlon and radio communication In long oceanic flights rug PACIFIC FLIGHT Captain Charles KIngsford Smith Charles Ulm Captain Harry W. W YoLon Lyon Lon and and James James' Warner arner made up the crew who wrote their names into Pacific flight history by crossing to Australia miles in 8 83 hours and 18 minutes elapsed time While a score score of new names were written Into the most spectacular spectacular ular chapters of aviation hIs history tor during the year the name of or Americas America's hero of or heroes Col Charles A. A Lindbergh never faded from a a. position of prominence While the more spectacular more spectacular flights have added zest to popular Interest interest inter inter- est In the years year's aviation history the steady growth of re regular ular mall mail passenger and express routes throughout the country deserves an Important place In the tho years year's achievements The American Air Transport association representing represent represent- ing 17 of or the largest airplane operators operators oper oper- reports more than miles flown on onre regularly re scheduled scheduled scheduled sched sched- routes throughout the countr coun coun- tr try Lowering of the air mall mail rate In August from 10 cents to five cents for the first ounce resulted In an Increase e of about per cent over the regular volume of air all mail man and necessitated a vast expansion of air mail man facilities