TWO ROUND-WORLD FLIGHTS

Chronicle (Levin), 11 August 1947, Page 5

TWO ROUND-WORLD FLIGHTS

Received Sunday, 8.40 p.m. NEW YORK, August 10. On the first leg of a rOmid-the-world flight in two Piper Cubs super-cruiser light aircraft the piiots, Clifl'ord Evans, of Washington, and George Truman. of Saskatchewan, took oif oh Saturday morning from Teterboro (New Jersey). They will leave on Sunday for Goose Bay (Labrador) and expeet to reacli England via Greenland, Iceland an 1 Scotland next Monday- morning. Evans said to . cut expenses they planned to sleep in their planes anu get handoUts from people at airports whore they stopped. ' The Piper Cub is , rated at .100 h.p. A round the world flight has never been attempted in an aircraft of less than 57 p h.p: The Cub^ will fly elose to each Other during the entire flight along the route over Newfoundland, Iceland, Britain, lndia an I Hiam. The loiigest stretch from Hokkaido (Japan) to Sheyu in the Aleutians is expected to be the rnosi dangerous part of the flight. No speed '•erord will be attempted. The fliers .•xpect to complete the flight in about. 10 days. The" first attempt to fly non-stpp iround the world refuelling from tli air will be made this month in a -iingle-engined Piper Cub by Ted rhompson, a Florida farmer, and Nelson Bro\vn, a hardware exporter ot" North Carolina, who first met while i'errying bombers for the Royal New Zealand Air Foree. Thev expevt to be In the air continuously for ten days and to cover 22,000 miles. They will take on food as vvell as t'uel while in flight. Ihe plane will be stripped bare to make room for four special petrol tanks. Thompson said: "We will drop our landing gear as soon as we are up. "At the end of the trip we will make a cra^h belly landing.'5