Show i.- i. n Hop Off Over A A Atlantic f DEPARTURE OF f 2 MN MADE IN I MORNING J I White Bird Plane Starts 1 on Hi Historic t ric Trip I P J 4 at a. a m. m 1 I IW W WEATHER TI- TI TIER ER IS FEARED FE-ARED I 1 I La Landing ng Ge Gear r Dropped as as' as j 1 G Craft aft Tak T-k Takes s' s Off Off I i LE BOURG BOURGET T FranceA nce May Ia V 1 I Isu su da AP p Captain a l Sh Charles rles t Nungesser ser and and l Cl t l an Captain in Fan Francis Francl Coli Coll Coli I took the he air at 5 18 this tJi Sun Sunday g mornIng or their long night flight Parl Pari to New York The White Bird the French l a now famous pl plane 1 n with its ts load oad of ot more tha than five tons got Ot I. I away to a splendid start sart sailing silling fast into fast Inter the air its great transatlantic trans trans- t atlantic adventure 2 It s 's s seemed med that the ill m luck Juck that had dogged the efforts o of the fliers fUels I. I who to cross the the- Atlantic and has as already cast cost the lives of r t 1 four had d for fog toJ the th the moment momen t at least 1 disappeared The machine rose gra gracefully in the still air and atT 30 was was- Jo Jo J 1 in the gray clouds L lo id the westward J the first rais rai's rays of the rising sun pun sun gICa gleaming hj for an Instant onit on it its j white wings f. f 11 I I LIGHTNING IG FLASHES J I r T flashed to fo th the the- southward south south- I I ward as IS the plane r rose se from front the r runway m mY Y but it was Avas a simple last Jast manifestation of dying local storm Weather conditions ons at t f Bourget TV were ere perfect and from predictions received received- by wire and anU handed to Captain n. er a fe few minutes p-minutes tn t s b before ore he le- le climb d Into the tha cockpit c Ck of or the plane plane- It Ite n d t the aviators would h ev p fI bv A yr on on n Jump s 31 f 1 S I The Their r route route- l layover y er h whence Champlain Champl ln 24 years eats ao- ao aoi sailed flailed tom for the bt bf the new lle world Then Thence hene e they planned td to i skirt th the southern coastline of England En Ep- id gland pass over Fastnet Ireland j jI and after following a gr great t circle I. I I Ion I on their way crOss across the north At Atlantic Atlantic At- At 1 1 lantic JanUc pick up early Monday the Newfoundland coast From there said Captain Cot Coil I. I it it Is Js the plainest kind of sa sailing down down the New England coast to I MItchel field where if luck holds t tI I they will they will come to earth some time around noon Monday I J Captain Charles Nungesser French h war ace of fifty victories predicted j as long ago as March 1921 nonstop aerial trips between aris Paris and andew New ew NewYork NewYork York a feat teat that h he himself Isnow is isnow isnow now striving to accomplish to add to the laurels laurels- o of France BEGAN PLANNING In November 1922 he began planning planning plan plan- ning a Paris-New Paris York flight with the idea of ot establishing a 1 air all line ina using l' l the fastest planes available but it was not until un til March of this year sear that it It v was as announced definitely that he and andI Captain Francis Coli ll noted ted aerial aeria I navigator would join the ranks of ot French and American aviators striving for the honor of being the first to make the hazardous crossing between New York and Paris Captain Nungesser whose primary primary S mary object in In the flight a s 8 to set het seta heta a new nonstop record Is not miot n a contestant con con- nt for the Raymond 25 25 25 prize for fora a successful l New York- York Paris flight He has has' not entered his name as a con in ac accordance accordance accordance ac- ac with the prize rules lules but recently told the As Associated Press that he was attempting the flight simply to bring the h honor bonor nor to French av aviation S I J 1 HUGE ENGINES f The plane in which h the Aviators aviators- are flying Is a Levasseur with a Lor Lor- j raine Dietrich engine and was i j at It has kaS horsepower engl engines es which are j capable of developing ping horse horsepower power pow pow- I er under favorable conditions Th The route rOut which Captain Coil Coll h has s mapped out tentatively represents a ed curved line Une passing from lIon Hon fluer pear hear Havre Bra Bray Head and Lands Land's End the last point of contact with land and then goes slightly northward to 30 degrees longitude and 53 63 or 54 to drop p toward Cape Race and ind Hall Hall- tax far reaching the United States 7 coast In the neighborhood of Bos Bos- ton Ion I In order to lessen excess weight Continued on page 9 9 OF 2 2 MEN MADE IN EARLY MORNING Continued fr from m page 1 aviators decided to drop their gear at the moment of de- de The hull of the l plane lane hasI has hasen en n I constructed so that It will float in the event of a forced dent dc- dc ent nt upon the sea MECHANIC MECHANIC No No Ko mechanic or wireless appat appa tiis t s is carried the extra room be- be utilized for the storage of addi- addi rial nal gasoline The plane is paint- paint white and this is depended upon aid id in ready distinction by bypass bypass- pass pass- ships On April 19 the thc plane was tested ider der er a ton three-ton load rising rising- to feet and attaining a n. speed miles an hour Additional i with Wit gradually tn ea d loads 1 vito four tons were on a tl program the the fliers s b before fore making making- their poff poH Enough gasoline for u 3 t forty- forty ur tur flight was set as the margin of ot fety This provided for a a. mini niini- um urn rate of speed d of miles an ii 10 ur which if maintained would ve ve the aviators five lve hours' hours leeway y it t was thought thirty five hours Quid be enough for the trip Captain Nungesser repeatedly de deed deed do- do lV ed ed he would not be rushed into t IV flight and that he would not fart art art until conditions were a sot so- so t ely tely ly perfect for the trip e. e LANE DEMOLISHED Captain Coli Coil has been planning New Paris New York flight light for some ome t rs rs In September 1925 his plane Re ich was intended for a flight to toi R w v York was demolished i in 11 an ident i ICh Captain Nungesser was married 1 Miss Consuelo r prom prom- L nf fly f In New Kew York and Paris society 1923 at Paris They were vere di- di reed last year The captain has hasen en en to the United States OJ on sev- sev of at in I occasions in the inte interests ts of ot i Uon rec tea m. m rn Cello NEW KEW YORK May 8 Sun Sunday a p l Nungesser's P start t today day cf of an tempt tempt at a nonstop ihl comes on the eighth ry y of the beginning of the first c flight across the Atlantic Jean ean e n M l On n May S 8 the 1919 4 seaplane bo United States navy left R Rock Rock- ck way I X N. Y rind arrived ed at Ply- Ply England May 31 after maki mak- mak i stops at Chatham Mass Hall Hall- 1ST in The he A Azores or s and nd h in l l JK d Spain dSpain 1 The NC 4 under command of 1 Alb Albert rt Read cover covered d a st stance nce 01 of miles la n the flying Sq le e of 59 h hours urs and 5 56 minutes s. s 71 fi n FIELD LD L L. L I J. J May 7 e ted Press The Press The llanta 3 lane Columbia was Wag up for forty forty- ie e minutes test flight before daik dIK J ight and it landed Charles AM LevIne president of the Colum- Colum I Aircraft corporation said It will GET GU ready for the New York-Paris York ight on Monday If weather r co codI- ns Ins are favorable Nj- Nj EW YORK May 7 AP Cap AP-Cap- C Cap Cap- P- P I. I ns ns s Nungesser and Coil Coif will 1 i l encounter encounter unfavorable weather I their proposed transatlantic stop flight from Paris to New r. r f. f He rk if they make the flight light Ini in i Iii if J next two days the United S I hes ites tes weather bureau announced y say ay m rl rUt The he weather man however was wasL L tant about making a flat pre- pre ton tion on Atlantic weather for tor two twos rs s ahead because he said the change so rapidly |