Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-07-14 | Page 2 | Utah Airman to Try Dash Again

I I I vv UTAH AIRMAN TO TRY DASH AGAIN AGA MITCHEL FIELD New cw York lork July 14 Lieutenant nt Russell Rus 11 L aughan whose hose attempt last Mon Ion Ion- day dllY to make a daylight fligl t from the tho Atlantic to the Pacific coast was frustrated when he was ced fo-ced o down In Missouri arrived F Iday F from Boiling field Washington Dayton whence hence he had bad flown from Day Day- ton Ohio He announced he be would make a second attempt bl Mon Mon- Monday Mon Mon- Monday Monday day to span the continent be len dawn et of a II singla sini day iho second attempt Maughan declared had bad brn b n ap- ap approved ap p- p proved In an order Issued by Gen Gen- oral era Fitzpatrick chief of the tho th all air ce The flight from DIl Dayton Daton ton l Fri lay lal was made In the Curtiss pursuit plane liane In which Maughan attempt ed cd the transcontinental trip Ito He H said It tt had been beell repaired at Day Day- Dayton Dayton ton and that It was as In excellent excell nt shape for a 0 long Jaunt Lieutenant Maughan 3 that an announcement made by bythe bythe bv the air all ser service serIce Ice several days daya ago ag that no further attempt at II a u daylight daylight day- day daylight light to coast flight world be b made until next summer Bummer ha hal been beer occasioned by an erroneous report to Washington that motor reuble had caused the forced landing at a St St Joseph Mo last Monday When officials were wore Informed that a clot In the gasoline feed foed o d pipe h had d made mado the necessary good sary and that the plane piano was Pas In Ir good condition they approved th the second clond att attempt Maughan