July 3.
The world must stand agape and history must revise all its estimates in view of the amazing achievement of Captain Post and Lieuterant Gatty, the two American airmen. Annihilating: time and distance in " manner, never before achieved the two airmen have succeeding in accomplishing what a week azo appeared the impossible task of flying round the world in ten days. So successful has been their endeavour that they landed in New York in a little over eight and a half days after they had left the aerodrome on the first stage of their the Atlantic. Tired and hausted after their great trial during which they were able to snatch only a.few hour's sleep, the two men have returned to New York which is to give them one of those tumultuous roreptions and civie tributes whicn that great city reserves for the brave, the heroic and the famous.
Round the world in eight and half days is a feat never envisaged by any of the great inwginative writers ant thinkers of the past. As the mechanical age burst on the eager world and transportation became more and more rapid i* was believed that 8 time would come when world trips would be accomplished in considerably less time—than formeely. Captain Cook did his world cruise in two years. Jules Verne slashed the "imaginative period to eighty days. The Graf Zeppelin reduced this to 20 day Captain Post and Lieutenant. Gatty have reduced it to a little over a week.
As the two men were speeding n point to point in their long "hops," their progress, firing the imagination of the aeronautical world, produced two contenders with ambitions to lower their r cord. But even in this ma vellous age where within the lifetime of young men, the acropine has been boin, proved and developed to the pitch of perfection existing at the present time, it seems inconceivable that the 'Americans' record will be lowered for years to come. The flight was approximately 16,000 miles, and the actual flying time was four days,'ten hours at an average speed' of 145 miles a hour. Tt is possible that faster aeroplanes carrying fuel supplies sufficient to bridge longer tances will be built, but the human factor demonstrated by the remarkable physical end ance of Captain Post—a _one-eyed man—and Lieutenant Gatty hardly be surpassed in the near future. Their flight is the greatest in the history of aeronautics and is likely to remain so for many years to come.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.