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Orleanian Starts Hop For Record
! Chapman Lifts Plane ! From Lake In Try For Distance Mark
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The effort to break the existing I POO-mlle non-stop distance record ; for light seaplanes was undertaken to advertise the Air Industries Ex hiblt which will be held In New Orleans December 1, 2-and 3. Chap man Is carrying with him Invitations to various plane manufacturers to participate in the exhibition here.
The flight was postponed from yesterday because of unfavorable ?wind* north of Atlanta, which would have used up too much of the plane?s fuel In bucking the adverse air currents. Today, It appeared that the flight might have to bar postponed again because ol lack of any winds at the starting point. Without some ruffling of the water,-'It Is almost Impossible for a heavily loaded, light seaplane, to break!;the ."seal? between the pontoons and- the glassy surface to lift the craft Into the air.
Sfoma-(50 aviation enthusiasts were clustered about the seaplane ramp at .the New Orleans Airport . when'' Chapman > prepared to start his' * flight., this ..morning. Chief . amony-them 'waa Douglas O. Lang-"staff, v,state, director of aviation, who,, on this occasion, was present in his i: capacity ?: as district vice-president'of the'National Aeronautic association, In. .whose behaif he i ; placed?-aboard the little seaplane a | sealed '-barograph, to make any per-formance'by ship and pilot official for thevNAA records.,
Dead'Calm '
With this instrument and 90 gallons of gasoline aboard. Chapman climbed Into the little cockpit, started bis motor at 4:34 a. m., and set out.,-The surface of the lake, In the ./dead calm then prevailing,; was absolutely burnished. He; roared-a way In ithe waning moon-; light -'and; the watchers could see 1 him tryito "rock? his ship In order \ to break the cohesion between the 1 slick water surface and the pontoons. ?? Unable to get the craft ??on I the step? he finally returned to the ramp.i;.
Fifty minutes later he made another attempt, but still without success, and when he returned to shore, this time, he said that- un-' less something of a breeze sprang up in time to make possible a start which would not bring him to New York too late at night, the flight woiUfWje postponed until tomorrow.
' A <llttle . after six, when day had Just; Jjroken through a ragged cloud-rack,' a ruffle of wind swept across the surface of the lake. Meanwhile, Chapman had taken ten- gallons of his fuel supplv nut