Leonardo at Lahinch - A group of men standing around a small plane

This is the Leonardo da Vinci, aka NR 13137, resting comfortably after an emergency landing near Lahinch, Co. Clare, and captured by an Irish Independent photographer...This was part of the account in the newspaper:."The two American airmen, Capt. George Pond and Lieut. Sabelli, who left New York at noon on Monday (Irish time) in an endeavour to make a non-stop flight to Rome, were forced down on the Co. Clare coast last night. The flyers, who had been 32½ hours in the air, walked into Lahinch almost unobserved and, going to the Commercial Hotel there, booked rooms and went off to bed..Their machine, the Leonardo da Vinci, was forced down at about 8.30 p.m. at a little place called Moy, making a good landing in a small field. It appeared that some trouble with their petrol tank was the primary cause of their descent, and in the landing some slight injury was caused to the machine. The flyers were overdue when they reached the coast of Ireland, but this was accounted for by the fact that on the greater part of their journey they encountered severe fog, and had to fly blind most of the way."..By the way, George R. Pond was a member of the family behind Pond's Cosmetics...Date: 16 May 1934..NLI Ref.: INDH2844 ( vtls000241376 )