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1927
1927 - 0835.PDF
OCTOBER 27, 1927 Mrs.\Grayson's Vain Endeavours JT has not been the happy experience of some of the Atlantic entrants to fail in the struggle three times and survive. Mrs. Grayson, the American, has had this fortunate misfortune. Her machine, the " Dawn," a Sikorsky amphi- bian, fitted with twin Wright " Whirlwind " 220 h.p. engines, was dealt with technically in FLIGHT for October 20. The trouble that has apparently caused most of the failures has been the desire to lift too great a load of fuel Altitude could not be gained, and over 200 gallons of petrol had to be released on two occasions. The- last attempt, on October 23, was the most promising. The machine got 500 miles out from the Maine coast, but then the port engine developed a defect, and the machine lost height About 1,500 lbs. of petrol were released, and the return flight begun almost with one < ngine They located the steamer, Coahoma County, as a precaution, but then decided to reach Old Orchard again, and were successful. The pilot was Mr. Wilmer Stulz and navigator, Mr. H. Goldsborough. The goal was Copenhagen. Japanese Airship Disaster AIRSHIP news is rare in these heavier-than-air days. Japan lost its only airship recently, when it was forced to descend in the sea off the Izu Peninsula owing to engine trouble, and subsequently burst into flames. The crew was rescued and one member was badly hurt. The X.H was recently bought from the Italians, and was similar to the " Norge," which made the flight to the North Pole. By Airship to the North Pole GENERAL NOBII.E, the famous Italian airship designer, is planning a new air expedition to the North Pole. He will use a new semi-rigid dirigible and make several circuits of the Pole zone and sound in unknown seas. The start will be made from Spitsbergen. His ship will differ very little in general design from that which carried out the previous trip to the North Pole. It will fly the Italian tlag. Canadian Pioneer Airman Disappears CO.MTE JACQIES DK LESSETS and his pilot and mechanic left Gaspe, Ouebec, on October 18, in a seaplane, for a point 75 miles away, called Val Brillant. They became long overdue, and their fate has now been assumed with the discovery of the wreckage from their seaplane on October 21. It appears, unfortunately, that they were all drowned. The Comte was the son of the originator of the Suez Canal, and an aviation pioneer in C anada. " THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM '': Not a new Armstrong-Siddeley engine, but a stack of cylinders in the shops at Coventry. A CFRMAN ATLANTIC ATTEMPT : On October 12, the German pilot Merz left Warnemiinde in a Heinkel HF6-D 1220 seaplane, 830 h.p. Packard mot a Junkers, as previously reported) for America, via the Azores, and is a present held up at Lisbon. Our pictures show:-(Top) the machine starting on its flight; (left), XS" operator Bock and pilot Merz ; (right), filling up with 4.000 litres (882 gals.) of fuel. 751
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