ACROSS ATLANTIC
WILLIAMS AND YANCEY HOP OFF AGAIN FROM MAINE TO ROME (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Monday. A message from Old Orchard, Maine, says that the Bellanca-Wright single-motored monoplane Pathfinder, with pilot Roger Q. Williams and Navigator Lewis A. Yancy, took off for Rome at 5.49 on Monday morning, expecting to make the 4,700-mile flight in from 45 to 50 hours. Early failure attended the previous Atlantic attempt by Williams and Yancey—in fact they did not leave the land. On June 13, at Old Orchard, two machines were to take off at the same time. One of them, the giant French plane Yellowbird, got off safely, and crossed the Atlantic to Spain. The other, the Greenflash machine of Williams and Yancey, sped down the crescent-shaped beach to take off for Rome; but the 6,5001 b craft had travelled only a third of a mile when it tore into the soft sand and almost overturned. The airmen were not injured; but both wheels of the plane were" torn off, the propeller smashed, wing broken, fabric torn and engine damaged, all of which made it unlikely that a further attempt would be made with the same machine.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 710, 9 July 1929, Page 11
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