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Ocdetf international mail pilot12/27/2023 "Practically all the activities in connection with the search for Charles H. On October 6, a reporter for the Washington Post working out of nearby Clarion, Pennsylvania, updated readers on the search. The search for Ames and his airplane took several days and was the focus of attention across the northeast. Headline from the Atlanta Constitution, October 4, 1925 When no word was heard from him by the next morning, a search was organized for the missing flyer. At first airmail officials thought that Ames had probably made a forced landing and would contact them by telephone, as required. That was the last report of Ames and his plane. The watchman at Hartleton, Pennsylvania, an emergency airmail landing field twenty miles east of Bellefonte, reported he heard the airplane flying overhead at 11:35 that night. This was part of the day and night airmail service that carried mail from coast to coast. Ames had left Hadley Field, New Brunswick (the eastern terminus of the coast to coast service) at 9:40 p.m. That leg of the trip usually took about two hours to fly. Bellefonte was the first stop, flying west, on the route. He was flying a de Havilland mail plane over the mountains near Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, on the New York to Cleveland run. But the storms were nothing to Ames, as the New York Times quoted him saying “Air mail pilots expect to encounter heavy thunderstorms during most of their trips at this time of year.”Īmes’ luck ran out on October 1, 1925. On July 3, 1924, Ames was flying the last leg of the airmail from San Francisco to New York City when he arrived there seven minutes ahead of schedule in spite of raging thunderstorms across Central Pennsylvania. When the flames reached center section and gravity tank I left ship which burned to the ground." "After cutting motor and turning on pressure pyrene tank, I landed the ship ok in plowed rolling field and tried to put out fire with my hand pyrene, which was impossible. While flight testing a de Havilland airplane out of Hazelhurst Field, New York, Ames reported that "the con rod in cylinder number four, right, broke, one piece going through the crank case and starting the motor on fire while in the air." Flying over Westbury, New York, at the time, Ames responded well to the crisis. Airmail Service on Decemhe already had more than 700 hours in the air.Īmes was a steady and reliable pilot who had his share of forced landings, including a particularly frightening one on September 26, 1922. Charles Ames was born on Februin Jackson, Michigan.
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