Cleveland High School - Beacon Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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IT was The English who Took The lead in making The TirsT round-Trip airship crossing oT The ATlanTic. WiTh an apparenT ease which hid The skill oT iTs commander, lvlaior G. H. ScoTT, The R-34 leTT EasT l:orTune, ScoTland, July 2, l9I9, and aTTer Tlying Three Thousand Two hundred and sevenTy miles in one hundred eighT hours and Twelve minuTes, Tied up quieTIy, July 6, aT The mooring masT erecTed aT Mineola Field. There were TwenTy-nine persons aboard. ATTer a wild nighT wiTh a sTorm ThreaTening To Tear The dirigible loose Trom iTs masT, The R-34 swiTTly reTurned To Pulham, England, July 9-I2, in sevenTy-Tive hours. IT was anoTher conguesT oT The air, boldly carried ouT wiTh consummaTe skill. During lvlay and June, l922, The TirsT Trans-ATlanTic TlighT Trom EasT To WesT was successTully made. On This TlighT, CapTain Sacudura Cobral was in command oT The PorTuguese seaplane, The Eairey Ill, on The Trip Trom Europe To SouTh America: Trom Lisbon To Rio de Janeiro. In IQZ4, UniTed STaTes Army Tlyers made The Tamous Round-The-World TlighT, Two oT The Tour planes Tinishing The SeaTTle-To-SeaTTle TlighT beTween April 6 and SepTember 28. The acTual Tlying Time was Three hundred TiTTy-one hours, alThough one hundred sevenTy-Tive days were consumed, and TiTTy-seven sTops were made. LieuTenanT Lowell SmiTh commanded The Tlagship, Chicago: LieuTenanT Erik Nelson, The New Orleans. The TlighT marked The TirsT wesTward crossing oT The ATlanTic Ocean. The TirsT wesTward non-sTop aeroplane TlignT over The NorTh ATlanTic was accomplished May I2-I3, I928. This TlighT was compleTed by The laTe Baron Von I-IueneTeld, CapTain Koehl and lvlaior FiTzmaurice, who wenT by way oT Ireland To Greenlee Islands, near NewToundland. In The same year, SmiTh, Ulm, and Lyons sTarTed on The TirsT TlighT across The PaciTic, leaving Oakland, CaliTornia, on lvlay 28, and arriving aT Sidney, June IO, To claim all The honors They had courageously won. STill anoTher pioneer TlighT was The unTorgeTTable world Tour made by The GraT Zeppelin which leTT LakehursT, New Jersey, AugusT 8, l929, aT I2:4O A. lvl., and, aTTer Tlying over FrederichshaTen, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, alighTed again aT LakehursT, Thus having encircled The world in iusT TwenTy-one days, eighT hours and TwenTy- six minuTes. AviaTor aTTer aviaTor has accepTed The challenge oT long disTance and hazardous TlighTs. Some have succeeded and some have Tound graves in The ocean. Trans- PaciTic, Trans-polar, and around-The-world TlighTs have become almosT commonplace: buT, in The minds oT a hero-loving world, no one can ever Take away The glory oT Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh Tor his pioneer solo non-sTop TlighT Trom America To Europe. - . .' 15- 2922-. ., 'T37-sibgbff, iff-i'r1'fZ'+ i:-T 'f', -'-' f .'1 Pai Tfifiifafl lf-fag ,ff1f5i5:-55 ,5-. ,z ff.. -1 I - - 1 ' -- :-:eras ' I ' -' T?ff35i1iii-'12:,. I ' ' vii 7 ':'.-'55-5.?1E'Tf ' ' ' . - A . 1 -viii - Q -lliiv : it-v ' li 7 v vtilturt tiiti, i wf W Page TI1irTeen

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