Show FL FLYING VING EASY SAYS MAUGHAN First pross gross U TJ S Trip 49 Days 13 Years Ago By LEE OVERMAN Special Correspondent of f The Standard Examiner CopyrIght 1924 by The Tho Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Press Freas Association SAN FRANCISCO June 28 28 a modern type airplane hour after hour In a transcontinental transcontinental journey Is I no more trying upon human endurance than Ihan sit sitting ting ling at the thi wheel sheel heel of ot an automobile for lor the same sm period It If anything manipulating a plane is easier than driving an all automobile for or the th same samo sam of ot hours So declares Lieutenant Russell Maughan sun chasing army fler fIer who this week weck sot set up a new mile mile- milestone milestone mile stone In aviation when wh n ho he h partook ot or breakfast at t Mitchell field New NewYork NewYork N York and wrapped himself around a man sired steak at Cl Clissy field fleM San Francisco after aCter dusk the same lame da dai Human endurance which Is sup supposed supposed supposed posed to 10 be b the controlling factor In such ouch uch a long flight as WR as not a fat fat- factor fattor fac factor tor at lit all says Maughan At least not la III that sense sens that It requires a man e of blood Iron and tremon- tremon tremendous tremendous dous dons reserve strength to perform such a teat Here Her are ar some Borne o of the things which Maughan predicts as a the re- re result re result sult suIt of his biB lil own experience ex PASSENGER LINES Commercial airplanes carrying hurry up passengers rs will soon be flying from rom New Nv York to San Francisco and vice vie ver versa a In la 21 hours 1 aviation forces a sIn sIn- sIngle sin I gle seater pursuit scout and Abd com corn combat combat bat planes can be tie hurried from coast to coast for emergency lea ren- rendezvous In 15 IS hours Government mall malt planes can maintaIn a IL hour 24 schedule In- In In Including eluding c stops between the th and PacIfic My My piano said Lieu Lle Lieutenant tenant Mauchan Maughan could have made mado the trip In tour four or five hours bet better ter time under better weather con coa Wo We W had bad to buck mUo an hour winds more than haU ay My bui buo can do miles an hour bour but the greatest speed reached In Inthe It the flight was wis miles an hour My avel age speed was less than three fourths of tho the speed possible or about miles an hour SLEEP IS DANGER of his mental and nod phys phys phys- physical physical ical reactions Lieutenant Maughan said The Tb greatest menace next nest to something going wrong wrone with your plane pIano Is ll going to steep sleep After eight or hours tho temptation to oro se was as 89 almost overwhelming Loneliness and nud the tb same awe sam never lever ending vista villa of cloud banks are ar the ca cause se It Is I like counting sheep trying to go 10 to the sleep th same sante old things over and over again Unless i military orders order should up let his plans Lieutenant Maughan said aid he would not attempt another dusk dusk dawn flight Comparison of sun chasing record sith that of Gal Gal- Galbraith Galbraith Gal braith 1 P Rogers Roger's s transcontinentaL flyer is Intel eat eat- st-ln st log Ing Rodges Rodge In tn a I bAby haby biplane with an 18 IS toot foot wing wingspread wingspread wingspread spread stalled stat ted from New York on September 1 17 11 1911 1111 and landed at Pasadena 49 4 days day later latr Rodgers traversed miles mile as compared with Maufhan Maughans 2850 2650 spending 82 hours six minutes In the tb air and the rest rot repairing hIs bis plane Rodgers survived all nil the th many perils ot of his hla hi ban dous pioneering flight only to plunge to his death datha IL ft few weeks later while aerial joy joy- joyriding joyriding joy riding at Long LODI Beach Deach Calif It It Is 18 I an on litter utter to flY the th continent nt In la than Ihan 30 days declared Rodgers to the writer a II short time lime before betor e be bew w killed killed |