Northwest History. State History. Box 37. National Topics.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1931
• Subjects: Berlin; flight; weather; hero; microphones; England; maps; radio; unison; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; United States > State History > National Topics > Northwest; Pacific; Champagne; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/94679

New York- Berlin Flight Is Made In 24 Hrs. 3 Min. NEW YORK-BERLIN FLIGHT IS MADE IN tt HRS. 3 Gatty and Post Span Ocean in 16 Hours 18 Minutes. LOST THEIR WAY When the wheels of the blue and' white Winnie Mae touched the ground the crowd sent up a roaring cheer; a truck took it in tow and hauled it over to a place where the movie cameras and microphones had been set up. The delay there was so long that the impatient crowd broke through the police lines and stampeded onto the field. Post said when he had caught his breaih. "Maybe we had as much as three hours of good weather. It rained on us practically all night, but, boy, we got through." It took them three minutes more than 24 hours to get from Harbor ■ Grace to Berlin, and only 16 hours 18 START TO MOSCOW Newfoundland to a British air force i landing field near Chester, England, I where they stopped long enough to | " 'o eat and take aboard: Stop in Hanover to Ask?, Direction—Berlin Not on Plane's Map. German Air Fans Wait Up to Greet World Circlers—Welcome Near Riot. fuel. From Chester they c o Han- By Associated Press. BERLIN, June 25. (Thursday.) — Harold Gatty and Wiley Post hopped off for Moscow today at 7:38 a. m. (1:38, a. m.^ eastern standard time) on the second stage of their flight around the world. Pass Through Berlin. BERLIN, June 24. (/P)—Harold Gatty and Wiley Post, "just passing through" on a round-the-world flight, turned in tonight for a few hours' sleep, storing up enough energy to carry them to Moscow in the morning. They dropped out of the moonlight onto Tempelhof air field at 8:30 p. m. (2:30 p. m. eastern standard time) after streaking across the Atlantic from Harbor Grace through weather that was bad almost all the way. Crowd Waited Hours. Berlin had been waiting for them for hours, and tired as they were they could not escape the most vociferous welcome the city has given any one in So enthusiastic was the crowd and so complicated were the police precautions to protect the flyers that Gatty got himself tangled up with the hero worshipers and was almost shouldered off the field by guards herding newspaper men and others "What did you land there for, so close to Berlin?" somebody asked Gatty after things had quieted down. "Lost Bearings Anyhow." We didn't have any maps, you 3W, showing where Berlin is. All : maps showed was Prance and Holland and part of western Germany. We had lost our bearings anyhow by the time we got over Hanover." Post was not very enthusiastic about champagne which was offered and he looked pretty foolish when somebody came up behind him and thrust a huge bunch of flowers into the arms weary from the all night and all day strain of piloting. "Gosh," he said, "where can I But it wasn't time for that yet. A radio man dashed up with a microphone and tried to get the flyers to talk. It was virtually impossible. V. S. Listening In. "Go on, say something. New York's listening to you," the radio man said. Gatty grunted and Post grinned. "Hello, Germany," said Post, putting his face close to the microphone. "Why didn't you use your radio?" asked the interviewer. "Didn't have to," said Post. "Are you satisfied with the trip so far?" "Humph!" It came in unison from both flyers. Somebody led the two tired men into the airport office while the crowd outside kept shouting, "Hoch