Show AE aeronautics ONA UTICa col V rii is s cain led over liili tin lite ua di with ills his tour ut u s I 1 I 1 the latin american countries around the caribbean sea and interest Dt erest through ln in his doings was maintained 1023 on february 29 20 bo be willi was a aawar ward wilson wed edal a I 1 and woodrow ed the 1 prest rear weeks later nad three dent coolidge pinned on OD his bis breast bre ast the me congressional medal of honor onor in ith an 80 connected may be became in the me air transport company late mexico and was I 1 alie lie year le be flew to guest biest there of ambassador morrow orrow which gave rise to tho the report that he was to warry marry miss bliss morrow events elre nag in the year saw some great aeronautics first of these was waa bert solo night flight from england to australia in IS 15 days then in april koehl kochi and von ton of germany and aad fitzmaurice of ireland starting from dublin made the first westbound nonstop flight across the atlantic landing on gr greenly denly island in the straits of belle isle capt 0 10 U wilkins and carl B ellson ell 8 on made a remarkable flight across the t 11 e arctic arc tie regions from point barrow to bergen in april the monoplane south ern cross with a crew of four flow flew from oakland calias ballf to australia with stops at hawaii and the FIJI islands and two italian aviators flow flew from rome rometo to brazil in june amelia earllar i t and two pilots flew from new to wales art goebel flew from los angeles to new york without stop in 18 13 hours 58 minutes and tucker and collyer made the same flight in the other direction in 24 hours 51 minutes soon goon afterwards these two airmen were killed when their plane crashed la arizona another 1 ther great achievement was vid the flight i of the huge german germ nn dirigible grat graf zeppelin from germany to lakehurst N J carrying mails freight and paying passengers and her safe return tragedies of the air were numerous us die most spectacular 6 eing being the 11 of tile the airship italia on which commander nobile of italy and a large party were exploring the arctic regions from Spitz spitzbergen bergen the dirigible fell on the lee ice floes and some of the men were carried way away with the balloon part and never found others with nobile nobble were rescued after man many y attempts by airplanes and Ice breakIng steamers ite amers capt roald amundsen the famous polar explorer was among those who attempted to reach the survivors by airplane and he and his five companions perished to in the ley icy wastes in capt cant walter flinch and miss mis elsie mackay of england attempted the western flight across the atlantic and were lost at sen sea captain carranza of mexico who had made a nonstop light flight from mexico city to new york was caught in an electric storm as lie he started home and perished in new jers jersey ey capt C Q T courtney courtne y and three companions pan ions lons flying from the azores to america were forced down in mid ocean but were ware picked up by a steamship and the same thing happened to two polish aviators ayla tors who started from paris basell Ua sell and cramer bf rockford no cliford tit it lew aw to cochrane ont and thence started arted sti for stockholm via greenland they reached their first stopping place mount blount evans but their I 1 plane was 0 00 o oo 0 crippled to io con continue untie in october corn com 11 C macdonald acDonald Al english aviator undertook to fly from newfoundland to england alone in a small plane und and was lost at sea A novelty that may m ny ibe be promising was the gyroscope plane invented by a spaniard in which he flew across the english channel rising and descending almost vertically marking the twenty fifth annl anal of the first flight of ithe ithe brothers an international civil aviation conference opened la IR wa on december 12 with 40 notions represented orvllle orville wright was waft tile the guest of honor and charled lindbergh was presented with the larmon modal medal awarded by the to in ter national lenice of aviators |