On Monday morning two Americans landed at Eisleben, about a
hundred miles south-West of Berlin, after haVing flown without stopping from New York. The flight was more than 400 miles longer than that oh Captain Lindbergh. Mr. Clarence Chamberlin' is a well- known and accomplished pilot, but his pas. senger, Mr. Levine, the managing director of the firm which built the Machine, knows little of flying. They stated that for the first 1,200 miles they had bad weather with fog and sleet. Afterwards they encountered intermittent storms, and so far from finding the flight Monotonous they had to be on the alert the whole time. Mr. Chamberlin has the satisfaction of having flown for a longer distance in a straight line than had been flown by any man. Mr. Levine, if he started on his journey with less than the nonchalance of Captain Lindbergh, at all events started with as little preparation. He simply pulled an overall over his ordinary clothes and did not tell his family that he was going. No doubt an attempt will soon be made to fly from Europe to America, and that is likely to be a more difficult task, as the winds for the westward journey are nearly always unfavourable.
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