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ative, Mr. Wm. C. ?,int, and arranged to attempt for the record on tiie return trip to New Orleans,
When weather oonditions looked favorable, I went to Floyd Bennett Airport the afternoon before the final tnke-off and received considerable assistance from the United States Coast Guard which has a seaplane base there, ns to the conditions of the water and channels where I was to take off. They showed me in detail the condition of the shoals and unliphted buoys which would be obstructions in talcing off before daybreak. Mr. Kenneth P.
Behr, Manager of Operations at Floyd Bennett airport, also pave me considerable assistance and furnished me with a place to sleep at the airport. At this time Harry W. Howze of the Standard Oil Company supervised the final fueling of the airplane for the take-off.
On the morning of October 12, conditions were pood, except for a light breeze, for the take-off. The United States Coast Guard had a pickat-boat standing by to be off assistance if needed.
The take-off at 6:01 Eastern Standard Time was made with a light breeze and I purposely passed over one of the shoals to take advantage of the tide rips caused by the flow cf the tide over the shoals. The take-off required a longer than normal run but Immediately after the take-off the motor was throttled to normal cruising R. P. M?s* and oontinued to olimb very satisfactorily.
I had taken off to the North-East, so I circled back over the field, waved to the crowd of friends who had Fathered to see me off and set my oourse for Atlantic City.
Everything went along fine until I reached Atlantic City.