Oct. 7.
In June 1919 Six John Alcock and Sir Arthur Whitten Brown—their "knighthoods accrued from the feat—made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland, a distance of 1,890 miles, 'On May 21, 1927, Colonel (then Captain) "Charles" Lind borgh, flying alone, made the second crossing but with a jump' nearly twice as long, from New York to Paris being distance of 3,639 mil Although the Atlantic survenderairmen, the Pacific stubbornly refused to follow suit, "Messrs, Brock and Schlee in 1926, had' the intention to continue their flight from New-found land to Japan by makin the full circle of the globe. They were dissuaded because, at the time of their arrival in the East, having done a most remar} ably' rapid flight up to that point, there was much public Uneadiness over a succession of aerial tragedies. The width of the crossing necessarily made the feat of conquering the Pacific a greater strain on the endurance of the man and the machine, It is not surprising that, hitherto, the Pacific has remained inviolate, Now, almost unexpectedly the breach in its defences has been made. Messrs. Clyde Pang-born and Hugh Herndon, who few Weeks ago made a gallant but unsuccessful attempt to fly round the world and, later, perienced the political difficult of dropping from the air into a trange country, have suddenly intimated their intention to fly from Tokyo to their native Washington State and have done There is poetic justice in thei formance for it enables them jafactorily to fill their coffers to an extent more than compensating them for their pecuniary loss in Japan. Not the least gratifying feature of the ad-Venture was the appearance at their landing of the reprasentative of the Japanese newspaper "Asahi" with the cheque of their guerdon duly presented. The "Asahi" has distinguished itself by its active encouragement of lation, Its generous offer of:
ential prize for the ight across the Pacific a signal feature of thie The staff work which enabled the newspaper, on the arrival of the intrepid young American airmen at the pic~ turesquely named and located Indian town of Wenachatjee, at once to discharge its voluntarily assumed obligations deserves special notice. Tt mark. ed Japanese punctiliousness and: courtesy to a high degree Congratulations have, also: gone from the Japanese Foreign: Minister to Washington. The crossing of the Pacific does not, in itself mean more than the performance of a difficult and daring feat. That is always worth attempting. The time may be still far distant before regular air-services can be established, Even on the shorter
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