Show I I I I IMAN MAN NOW SURPASSES I BIRDS AT A T BIRDS OWN O THAT ART THAT OF FLYING Army Airmen's stop Non Flight Across Nation Is Crowning Achievement of Aviation ill in Twenty Years SAN DIEGO Calif May Some 4 twenty years ago at Kitty Hawk field North Carolina a crowd of curi curi- curiOUS curious I ous spectators stood and watched a strange machine I known as an airship and with one accord declared Huh That thing will never leave the ground But it did Under the guidance I or of OT Wright the ance rose rOM falteringly and spent pent a few tew minutes In the tho air groaning and creaking A Aviation In America had bad become a In spite of this initial success doubtful ones who ho hO witnessed ed and read of ot the achievement still said ell v eli ell they'll thell the II ne neer never er get an here hereIn In like that a I 1 today day In a hangar at Rock near here there stands ds a lineal descendant of that contraption contraption contraption tion which only day before ie es- es tel la stood Mood in a n hangar at Hemp Hemp- Hempstead stead Hemp stead N Y 2 miles away hav hav- having av- av ing ipg tr traversed orse the continent in air tinder Its own 10 power er and without a 0 astop stop in 26 hours 40 O minutes and 4 2 2 s I Another I stee steD In the progress regress ot of u has been and Lana which surpasses s 's what In en llos llo's toa Ilos at t first merely claimed to im- im imitate Im Imitate the night light of ot 11 a bird for j Im-j no tan can an fly continuously tor for so long a time or distance Pr PI sEW KW I The men who ho hew flew the tho machine from ow 1 T cw Ow York are Lieutenants Oakl Oakley y G Kelly Kelty and John A Mac Mac- Read Mac Read who bet between them already held beld se seen seven en n aviation laUon records for tor speed lIon dur of ot flight and weight speed taken Into the te air On a single air air- airplane air airplane plane The Tho men thought little ot of o otheir their accomplishment and almost almot as soon ns 1 a they tho landed were making plans for tor attempting to a nevy y record rt ord for duration of ot flight and an attempt to tl fly around the thi th world I The plane plane- they flew Into San Diego esterday was the same samo the Ih had d used In two taO previous pre attempts attempt to cross the tho American continent a Q stop the first of or halted hailed by n fog og Oil which pre them from froni finding their nay a through the mountain passes east cast ot of here hero and the second of ot bleh terminated through a failure or of orI I their engine at Indianapolis last ember lo t O ov ember RECORD IS I Both these attempts howe er resulted In la record performances for tor forlie the lie as a aviators turned the first one Into an attempt tor for a Il record tot tot- sustained flight night They circled abo abose 0 San Diego DIgo and its environs for 36 25 ho hoars rs IS 18 minutes and 30 seconds exceeding by more than nine nino hours the best beat pre previous lous mark Official acceptance of or this mark as asan an Intern illonal record was with withheld th ith- held bec of ot technicalities though there thero was nas as no question that the a ai tutors had bad remained aloft for tor forthe forthe the time stated Ithe The fhe second attempt also had lied its ItJI ll start irons from Rock Rockell ell Field In It the fliers filers dro drove drose e eastward as far taras as Indianapolis where he e they landed only after they had used er e thing available In the plane to keep kerp their engine Ine cool e even een tn pouring into its radiator radiator t the tho milk and cot cot- fee cot fee from their pro to replace the water that lied had l d leaked out through cracks in the engines engine's cyl- cyl cylinder cyl cylinder inder jackets The fhe at 0 aviators a were ere era gis gh given en such n a greeting groeting hero on their arrival as comes come to few tew men Sin San one by nativity and the other bY adoption the tho CR citi took them to her heart beart with Ith unanimous acclaim Although the big T- T T 2 landed In inthe Inthe the tho middle ot of the fIeld the th crowd that t gathered on Pago Two To HUMAN HUMANn n VERS I SURPASS GIRO C from Page Pace One I ass as so large and pressed eo so close to the aviators that by the time Major Henry A Arnold command command- commandant commandant ant of ot the field arrived command I he had hall to fight SHOWER his hie way OF 0 EGR through h You have hate accomplished the Im- Im In I his enthusiasm and his words ord found echo and from every quarter qu of at o the country In telegrams IncludIng IncludIng log Ing one from pr president Harding wt which Ich read You hate hae h ve written a new chap chap- chapter chapter tH ter ia in the tho triumphs ot of American laHon Both the aviators were In good condition when hen they landed land land- landed landed ed Except for tor a IL few tew s ot of oil all from the Liberty engine eng thAt had brought them II a a greater dis- dis distance dis distance tance lance than any persons have hove ever flown previously In one continuous flight they were seemingly as fresh on landing as It if they had taken au an hour hours s jaunt They began telling nea how they planned to try for tor new and more difficult rec- rec records records rec records STORY OF FLIGHT The etor stor ot of the flight was as told by the men who ho made It in m a mat mat- matter matter matter ter of ot fact tact way with Ith first one and then the tile other putting In a 0 sen- sen sentence sentence sen sentence tence or a 0 word to Illuminate some somo som point as ns they alternately carried on orthe 1 the description There Thera was the start when the tho th hangars at Hempstead wore were missed only by Inches There was Maa as dUrI- dUrI difficulty culty cully In to getting tho the motors motor's full fu poser po er Into pI play a for tor the first few tew hundred miles and the thrill Mae Mae- Ready Mac Ready described when they ran Into a mammoth beacon light at Belle Ille Ill III piercing the clouds cloud and darkness to guide ulde them on their ay a nay There was 1 as the danger of the desert In tn Arizona nemesis of ot ala atia- a la- la latore lore la-lore tore In the past where here landing In Inthe inthe lathe the daytime Is dangerous and at night most likely fatal And then San Diego nestling like a IL minia minta- miniature turf Sure paradise e on a bay of ot the Pa- Pa Pa Pacific ellk ocean oceon In southern California A II flight ht finished A record made Baths Balls food food REl UR ARID ARE MADE L One note of ot anxiety was BBS 00 In the story tor Soon after otter starting the light flight the voltage regulator ot of their IgnI- IgnI IgnItion Igni Ignition tion system broke but lilac MacReady Read repaired It The airplane had about 40 gal gal- gallons gallons gal gallons lons of gasoline left In Its tanks hen tanke then hen It Is landed out of ot the 72 gallons gal gal- gal gallons Ion lons It look took at the start The plane i iwas I was the same Bame the filers had lad used use useIn In early attempts to fly over OHr the th continent But Dut there was a 0 differ differ- different different ent motor The Time motor used Is a 0 hor I 4 horsepower 0 O-hor O standard com pres- pres Ion Liberty To this typo type of or mo- mo motor motor mo motor tor as aviation officers ascribe the suc- suc success sue cess cees of the flight That Is next to t the grit and flying ability of the tho thoI two lieutenant lieutenants I Major Arnold declared th the rec- rec record record rec record ord set b by Kelly and MacReady demonstrated the feasibility of com com- commercial com com- commercial mercial airlines across tho the conti conti- conti continent continent nent Passengers he said could 1 be carried a distance In one day doy whIch the fastest trains re- re required re required the fh to cover G GET GIT T RICHER The two as a result ot of their new record III ale e richer by 2600 each A telegram from Major General chief of the ser sen Ice Informed them that thai Colonel Franklin II R Kenne Kenney a 0 for mer air ser service Ice officer had won on a 0 a wager of 5 H on the flight and offered It to the fliers with his corn com Both airmen were enthusiastic In their praise ot of the weather bureau bu- bu bureau reau reou for tor Its accurate forecast o of what conditions might be he encountered encountered on the trip We wo Vf are arc Indebted to a 0 marked degre degree said Kell Kelly to the s weather eather eath cath- cather er bureau for tor the success of at our flight The help of the efficient meteorologist was a 0 feature ot of our flight I Kelly and MacReady were guests lOt ot of honor last nl night ht at a dinner given given en bv by tho American Legion post iSan San Diego Major Theodore Mac Mac- Mac who nho was vas one ot of the first men to fly across the continent though his flight night was as not a non non- nonstop nonStop nonstop stop one presided as liB head of the post t Major MacAulay Is now retired re- re 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