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Show AIRMAN GAINS fJEMl IN ! ECLIPSE FLIGHT Lieut MacReady Cruises About at 16,000 Feet Altitude Al-titude When Banks of Clouds Obscure View SAN DIBOO, CaL. Sept. 1) (By A. P.) Lieutenant John A, Mac-Ready, Mac-Ready, one of tha two army flyers who broke tha world's record In a nonstop flight from New York to Ban Dlegov-la th possessor of a new and novel record today aa a result of hla flight of 1.00 fset al-tttud al-tttud to observe th sell pa cut off from a view of th earth by clouds that spread ver th coast clear to Knssnada, In lower California, Cali-fornia, with Captala A. W. Stevens, Stev-ens, noted army photographer. Mae-Ready Mae-Ready baOUed tha crowds few three hours In hla determination to gain aa unobstructed view of tha eclipse. They ware winging along In utter darkneaa, with tonguea of blue flamea shooting from their exhaust plpee and with wlag and fuselage drenched with moletura when the drama of the skies was enacted. Lieutenant MacKeadr and CaDtaJn Btevene recently came to Baa Diego by airplane from an Eastern aviation avia-tion field for the express purpose of making picture of the eclipse. They flew looo miles to get ons picture, but were foiled by the elements. Lieutenant Wyatt and Chief Photographer P. A. MaDonough flew st 17.000 feet, just Inside the area of totality. At the Instant of totsllty. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Wyatt saw with remarkable clesrneea the shadow approaching from tbe southwest, but it cams so rapidly he was unable to snap hla top watch before It had passed. He reported that the horlson of the Pacific was marked by a reddish pink glow that extended about one-tenth one-tenth the lengtlv of th horiaoh to the right of the shadow. As tha ahsdow paaaed. the reddleh tinge of flame leaped along the entire horlson horl-son and did not diminish for several sev-eral mlDUteev Navy airmen, scatter od over a wide area and flying at attltudea varying from 700 to K.000 feet, were successful In geulng, not only excellent motion pictures of the corona, but also faint but sufficient suffi-cient photographs of the fleeting shadow that swept with terrific apeed down from the northward at tbe moment of totality. Scientist are extremely pussled over one It of Information that dropped from the clouded ekles with the naval avlatora. Thia was a sea of lavender-colored clouds. Lieutenant Donald Duncan, flying at 1000 feet over th mountain near Poway, sighted th ahadow with unusual un-usual clearnaa approaching from the northwest. It engulfed him In blsek darkness a It poised. He said the horlson during tha period of totality waa rimmed with a reddish red-dish light that glared forth at time with great brilliancy and then died down until It seemed Ilka the glow from a small fire. GET GOOD PHOTOGRAPHS. BANTA BARBARA. Cal. Bept 11 (By A. P.) The only successful photographs of ths aun's corona mads In southern California during the eclipe of th sun yesterday ar believed to bo ones mad by Professor Pro-fessor Jamea Worthlngton of London Lon-don nnd Dr. Alfred K. Burton, professor pro-fessor emeritus of astronomy In ths Massachueelta Inetttute of Technology, Technol-ogy, near here today. Professor Worthlngton stated last alght that four of tbe negatives developed de-veloped by him wars almoel perfeet and would take rank .with the beet ever mads during a solar eclipse. Profeaoor Worthlngton 'and Dr. Burton headed an expedition at an observation station established north of Banta Barbara. Weather conditions there were mor favor-abl favor-abl thaa at any other a pot on th Paelfl eoaac according to the act-enlists. act-enlists. Ths equipment used waa an especially constructed ceo loa lax. |