AVIATORS JUST GET THERE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 384, 19 June 1928, Page 1

AVIATORS JUST GET THERE

MONOPLANE REACHES WELSH COAST FLYERS DEAD TIRED, AND PETROL GONE BOSTON GIRL IS FIRST WOMAN TO CROSS YET another conquest of the wide Atlantic has been made by aviators. The monoplane Friendship, bearing Miss Amelia Earhart, a Boston society girl, Pilot Stutz and Navigator Gordon, flew from Newfoundland and landed close to the shore near Llanelly, Wales. The occupants were dead tired, and were short of petrol. (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association.)

Reed. 10.45 a.m. LONDON, Monday. The Friendship, which left Trepassy Bay, Newfoundland, at 9.51 a.m. yesterday, circled over Llanelly, and descended at 12.40 p.m., close to the shore, making a good landing after a 22 hours’ flight. “We are short of petrol,” called Miss Earhart, when a motor-boat rushed up, in which Pilot Stutz was taken ashore. He said: “We are dead tired. We have only suffleient petrol to taxi another ten miles. No one was more thankful than me to see the coast of Wales. It was a bad trip. Throughout most of the way we were flying blindly I was at the controls for the whole journey, and had considerable difficulty in keeping the course, because we steered through fog and rain solely by instruments. I realised some time before we sighted land that we were running out of petrol, and resolved to land at the first opportunity.” His companions are well, but all are fatigued. They were surprised to learn that the petrol was so low. There was not sufficient to allow a take-off to be made. Miss Earhart is remaining aboard, where she lunched. She declared

that she was the proudest woman in the world. Pilot Stutz had a wonderful reception. Mrs. F. E. Guest, who financed the flight, motored from Southampton to

congratulate Miss Earhart, who is the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. She said she had not met Miss Earhart previously. Some disappointment was felt by the American delegation at Southampton owing to the plane’s non-arrival there. Throughout the morning American flags were flying.