even better airmanship would have been to pick somewhere closer to land and got down sooner, or did he not take the usual route? If he took the usual route he could have landedd in Scotland.
Oh dear, I’ve done it again. Made myself look a sirry pirrock through not reding the article properly. Maybe the range of the aircraft made it theoretically possible but I still consider it bad airmanship to have relied on the actual matching the theory. Stories like this do nothing to enhance the views of the general public towards aviation.
I agree he should have landed sooner than what he did. Shannon is not excatly the furthest westerly part of Ireland, so he had to fly over land, or down the river to get to the airfield.
A precautionary landing in a good field would have been safer, rather than pressing on and have a failure over a populated area.
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