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Show oo 1MY AVIATORS IN 1WMIGHT Five of Eight Men on Qualification Qualifi-cation Test Trip Return to Hempstead Field. Hempstead, N. Y., Dec. 31. Five of the eiffhi army aviators who flew from the aviation field here yesterday to Philadelphia in a qualification lest for gorernmeat pilot licenses return ed today, aft-r ha Tins: suffered severely se-verely from the cold on their 115-mile trip at an altitude of from 5000 to 8000 feet. W. H. Blakely, flight instructor, in-structor, with C. H. Reynolds as a passenger in a lUO-horsepower machine, ma-chine, covered the distance in seventy-two minutes. Savon aviater ianrl rrvtm Phila delphia on the return trip, but two met with mishaps. One was Lienten-ant Lienten-ant A M. Coyle, who was forced to land on Princess hay, Stafen island, and ihe other was Sergeant A. L. Kraua, who had engine trouble and h.id to descend at Red Dank, K. J. While Lieutenant Coyle was flyin? alone at an altitudo of 6000 feet his engine went dead over Karitan bay, between Staten island and New Jer-Bey. Jer-Bey. The aviator volnlae-d. but miscalculated mis-calculated his landing and hit the water. wa-ter. The nose of the airplane struck in the sand in shallow water. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Coyle, rtranped in the machine, ma-chine, was uninjured. Lieutenant J. E. Miller was the first to arrive here, having been in the air one hour and twenty minutes. Corporal If. Salmon was next, covering cover-ing the distance in about the same time. Captain Je.-eph E. Carberry, eemnianding the aviation squad, made the trip in ninety minutes. BlakHv, r-ho sot a late start from Philadl-phla, Philadl-phla, landed next. He was followed by Lieutenant Barney, who made the flight in seventy-eight minutes. The army aviators will attempt a longer flight when warmer weather sets in, it was announced tonight. |
