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I took pretty good care that I should not fall victim of the first of these two contingencies: I had my latest and best engine aboard and, just as I had every reason to expect, it ran perfectly from start to finish. Extra precautions were taken to prevent the loosening of guy wires and, in fact, a leak age in the oil tank was the single mechanical incident of the voyage. While the running out of oil compelled me to land twelve or thirteen miles before reaching Governor's Island, it was only afterwards that I discovered it, for I thought at the time that the loss of the oil was due to the pump causing too great a flow.
As regards the weather, it was all that could be desired; the air' disturbances I encountered in the narrow part of the Hud son Valley - violent as they proved to be and ticklish as they were to overcome - were purely local in character, and in the open stretches the breeze was never very great.
I waited several days for a good day, as I knew a breeze at Albany would mean a small gale around such places as Storm King; had the course lain over perfectly flat country, I would not have been so hard to please in the matter of air conditions.
I have been asked whether this flight was a harder one to succeed in than the. London to Manchester one. It is very hard to compare two events so different in character.
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I took pretty good care that I should not fall victim of the first of these two contingencies: I had my latest and best engine aboard and, just as I had every reason to expect, it ran perfectly from start to finish. Extra precautions were taken to prevent the loosening of guy wires and, in fact, a leak age in the oil tank was the single mechanical incident of the voyage. While the running out of oil compelled me to land twelve or thirteen miles before reaching Governor's Island, it was only afterwards that I discovered it, for I thought at the time that the loss of the oil was due to the pump causing too great a flow.
As regards the weather, it was all that could be desired; the air' disturbances I encountered in the narrow part of the Hud son Valley - violent as they proved to be and ticklish as they were to overcome - were purely local in character, and in the open stretches the breeze was never very great.
I waited several days for a good day, as I knew a breeze at Albany would mean a small gale around such places as Storm King; had the course lain over perfectly flat country, I would not have been so hard to please in the matter of air conditions.
I have been asked whether this flight was a harder one to succeed in than the. London to Manchester one. It is very hard to compare two events so different in character.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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